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Nick Chater, Professor of Behavioural Science at WBS looks at how mental manipulation can be backed by good intentions - but when used with stealth, it is deceitful and wrong. Nudge theory will be one of the talks at the KIN Winter Workshop

Misconceptions about the brain are embedded in corporate training programs and could be sabotaging their effectiveness. Companies should reevaluate them in light of the latest scientific insights.

"The biggest problem that businesses -- and governments -- must solve is one that rarely comes up in a behavioral psych lab: how to get people's attention in a world filled with more distractions by the day."

Learning to perform a job by watching others and copying their actions is not a great technique for corporate knowledge transfer. Christopher G. Myers suggests a better approach: Coactive vicarious learning.

When it comes down to it, knowledge is worthless until it is converted into some form of action.

Chris Collison explores some of the myths and realities of how organisations learn.

Probably not new to the Km "old timers", but if you haven't come across the SECI model that was developed by Ikujiro Nonaka and Hirotaka Takeuchi in 1996, then worth a read. devised the SECI model in 1996. Often referred to as the "knowledge spiral," SECI stands for Socialization, Externalization, Combination and Internalization, and is heavily featured in the KM Institute's "Knowledge Manager Certification" programme.

The theme for the forthcoming KIN Workshop (1st December 2015) is "Knowledge in Action". Hopefully a title that will resonate with anyone who practices knowledge management, since it reminds us that knowledge without some form of action is worthless