Yearly Archives: 2014


Knowledge sharing

Several currents of knowledge sharing exist in my surrounding work environment:

  • those who don’t share or just when explicitly asked;
  • those who share or are willing to share but having a so confusing way of thought that makes almost impossible to profit;
  • those who share clearly all they know at the most simple request
  • those who share before any request by an electronic way – document sent by email or a post on a blog or a wiki.

I like to promote this latter way of sharing as it benefits also those who are afraid to ask (dumb questions?) and those who are just curious. If the blog or wiki are public this can be even better as more people who don’t know the “expert” can profit.

Sharing through a blog or wiki should be thought and feedback given so the presentation improves. People should be given time to blog, to document into wiki and motivated to follow what others share.

This way we increase in a cheap way the global knowledge of the organisation and, within fields of speciality, its prestige.


My commute journey

commute_journeyAt least three days a week I’ve a 75 minute commute to work. Fortunately I can use it for achieving several objectives of the day. Without that commuting need, I would not do accomplish those objectives.

I start with bicycling about 15 minutes to the train station. It gives me fresh air, exercise and frees my head from all thoughts as I’ve to pay close attention to traffic.

The 45 minute train ride is used to either read the paid newspaper I received early morning at the mailbox or to perform exercises from my German course. No work related activity.

After a 5 minute walk I wait and catch a bus for a final 10 minute ride. I profit this time to read the RSS feeds I follow like HBR or Harold Jarche on management and Pythian on Oracle databases. I consider this time as learning time related to work, while at the train is learning time not work related.

The way back home I redo the same. It allows me to free myself from labor related tasks and arrive home mind free from any work related issue.

This is possible as I don’t own a car and public transport in Switzerland is reliable and comfortable..