In my view David Snowden brings knowledge management into alignment with Karl Weick's world of sensemaking and positive organizational scolarship.
Dave Snowden is the director of the new IBM Cynefin Center for Organizational Complexity.
His Cynefin model (download PDF file) is the best integration of knowledge management that I have seen. It is profound and it addresses intersections of LEADERSHIP, CULTURE, COMMUNITY, BUREAUCRACY, CHAOS, EXPERTISE and more.
I am working to understand Dave Snowden's thinking on the third age of knowledge management. He moves beyond knowledge as a thing to "knowledge as an active process of relating."
With a little more work on this reader's part his ideas will be personally usable. Here are my notes on Snowden's article "Complex acts of knowing--paradox and descriptive self-awareness" from a special issue of the Journal of Knowledge Management.

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In my first post into the category of Transformation, I must say that I am deeply skeptical that leadership as we currently understand it has much to do with transformation. What caterpillar has ever planned to enter a cocoon to come out as only God knows what? Who will lead their organizations into the radical process of transformation?
    Learning about organizational and community transformation is essential if we are to bridge the chasm between the quality of care patients could have and what they currently do have.
   Transformed mental models may need to precede any organizational planning for transformational change. This is a true opportunity for exploration and learning.

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