While re-reading the article--and especially the part highlighted below--From Training to Learning in the New Economy, I was reminded of the White Paper I had read yesterday by David Snowden. The Paper is called: Complex Acts of Knowing: Paradox and Descriptive Self Awareness. What triggered the association was the phrase, "Conventional wisdom treats knowledge as if it were a kind of substance". In the white paper, Dave Snowden explains how knowledge is both a "thing" and a "flow". And it is our tendency to perceive knowledge as something static, "capturable", measurable and quantifiable that leads to teaching being seen as the transfer of these knowledge packets from one brain to another... If we understood the complexities of "knowledge", the social and the cultural contexts, the symbols, the evolution, the constant shifts, we would be less inclined to fall prey to the notions of knowledge transfer or knowledge management. This then begs some the following questions: What is knowledge? Can it be transferred? Can it be managed? What does knowledge sharing mean in today's connected, wired world? How does knowledge evolve out of the mind-boggling mass of information that flows everyday? When and how does this information become knowledge? These are just some questions that seem to turn in on themselves and have been plaguing me...and they raised their once again after I read the Paper and then the article today again... Look forward to your responses. - Sahana Chattopadhyay from Amplify