Well I planned to blog this week and into next on the holy grail of KM, best practise replication, but since watching the horrors unfold in the Russian school I'm somewhat distracted this evening. So I'll just start the subject off tonight.
Why is it we find it hard to replicate best practise from one place to another?
Reasons that come to my mind from years of dabbling in and on the edges of this topic are:
We are human and not machines, therefor we are happier when given room to express ourselves instead of slavishly following others.
It's OK for them to do that but we have a different situation.
That isn't the best practise cos it won't work here!
Those people wouldn't know a best practise if one came up and bit them on the arse!
Its assign of weakness/lesser ability if your following others - we are born to lead
It's dull mostly copying others (There is an artist in the heart of all of us)
etc
A colleague of mine and I today had a reasonably long chat about this , around the topic of when a good or best practise is posted to a CoP why don't people just pick it up and run with it. The examples we know and what we apply ourselves must push, prod, remind and challenge people to assess an idea and report back what they are doing with it. CoPs it seems are good to debate and take from what you will, but driving common working methodologies and common practises CoPs miss something. We concluded it was the formal line management control structures that they lack. CoPs are at their best when they host an egalitarian society, not a bunch of yes people. For best practise replication surely you need yes people.
So can the 2 exist?
Yes and no I feel, but that's for tomorrow
Oh those poor kids, parents, and soldiers in Russia, what a terrible terrible day for them all
