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Date: Tue, 23 Jul 2002 15:20:20 -0400

At 2:55 PM -0400 on 7/23/02, Win Treese wrote:


> This should actually be easy to test experimentally: compare the results
> of having someone call up and say, "Can you show us how to do X for this
> project we're working on?" with those of having someone summoned by a
> knowledge management project to explain how to do X for the knowledge
> archives.

About the only way I've heard of something like this working was back in
the Eighties, when management poster-child QuadGraphics used to have the
maxim "you can't get promoted unless you teach someone your job".

That might do the trick, though I don't know what happened to QuadGraphics...

Cheers,
RAH

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