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Carol H Tucker
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the last Tuesday in the month
Today is the 3rd day of the 48th week, the 28th day of the 11th month, the 332nd day of 2017, and:
- Giving Tuesday
- Independence Day: Panama from Spain in 1821; Mauritania from France in 1960
- It's Letter Writing Day
- Make Your Own Head Day
- National French Toast Day
- Red Planet Day
- Rockerfeller Christmas Tree Lighting
- Turkey Leftover Day
On this day in....
1520 – Portuguese navigator Ferdinand Magellan reached the Pacific Ocean after passing through the South American strait that now bears his name. In this day and age it is hard to believe that some folks weren't convinced the earth was a globe until someone actually sailed all the way around it.
1582 – In Stratford-upon-Avon, William Shakespeare and Anne Hathaway pay a £40 bond for their marriage licence; she was already pregnant with the couple's first child, to whom she gave birth six months later. Hathaway was 26 years old; Shakespeare was 18.
1925 – The Grand Ole Opry begins broadcasting in Nashville, Tennessee, as the WSM Barn Dance.
1964 – Mariner program: NASA launches the Mariner 4 probe toward Mars.
1967 – The first pulsar (PSR B1919+21, in the constellation of Vulpecula) was discovered by two astronomers Jocelyn Bell Burnell and Antony Hewish.
2017 - NASA Voyager is 19 hrs 34 mins 22 secs of light-travel time from Earth
Quote of the day:
“A note of caution: We can never achieve goals that envy sets for us. Looking at your friends and wishing you had what they had is a waste of precious energy. Because we are all unique, what makes another happy may do the opposite for you. That's why advice is nice but often disappointing when heeded.”
~ Marcus Buckingham, British author, motivational speaker and business consultant
My first reaction after reading this quote: Back in the day, knowledge management gurus were fond of talking about “best practices” – things that worked and worked well that could be shared from one organization to another. One thing that KM managers started to struggle with pretty quickly was dealing with showing the results of those best practices, especially if you got a savvy boss that wanted to know what the ROI for the new programs was. Turned out pretty quickly that what worked spectacularly for Organization A only provided mediocre results in Organization B and made no difference at all in Organization C – the missing component being the environment of each organization, which differed wildly according to industry, location, and corporate culture [just to rattle off a couple of the variables]. KM as a discipline took a severe hit and ended up being perceived as yet another management fad. Shame, many of us still work in stealth mode, making our contributions by encapsulating and sharing knowledge as much as we are able to do so
Of course I realize the message was not actually about the inability of knowledge management to prove its worth to organizations [especially small businesses] but to us as individuals warning us. To compare oneself to the lives and times of others is an excellent way to generate some pretty negative feelings, which is bound to impact your all over well-being. Let’s face it – some of those folks we see posting away on Facebook look like they are truly living the life of Riley. For me, seeing folks my age who are happily retired and traveling all about can start me pouting, forgetting that I am just seeing what they choose to let me see, not any of the prices they had to pay or the choices they had to make and live with. Nope, I stick to my own realm of existence and avoid wishing to have what others have, thank you very much – “better the devil you know than the devil you don’t” as the saying goes. That said? I certainly would not mind winning the lottery… or powerball… or megamillions….
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