CHAPTER 6

BESPECKLED, MARRIED, AND EMANCIPATED

“Bespeckled, Married, and Emancipated” revisits the “blind spots,” “mismatches,” and “jail”—thorny problems from Chapter 1—and recaps how the Knowledge Jam’s boundary-spanning (Facilitation discipline), participative knowledge-elicitation (Conversation discipline), and stewardship (Translation discipline) are a viable combination for overcoming those hazards.

“All Mankind

Not just purposeful mankind

But mankind unrelated to what is important to just us

Without a fuss and thus

Live totally within

Emancipated dialogue”

FROM EMANCIPATED DIALOGUE, BY BLACKRABBIT9X.1

In Chapter 1 I talked about three obstacles to tacit knowledge transfer: blind spots, mismatches, and knowledge jail. These are truly thorny problems, ...

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