Title: Good Enough
Product review: I really wanted to like this book. I like the authors. I like their prior work. I think it's just that I'm just the wrong reader. Well, not exactly that either. The book seems to have two parts. Chapters 1-3 are very gentle, lay introductions to some of the rhetoric of the information / commuication age. These chapters also offer an interesting view of the history of the naiscent information age. Chapters 4 - 8 are much more compelling, discussing knowledge and education and organizations, with liberal use of real world organizations and experiences as illustrations. From chapter 6 on, it's fairly brilliant, offering a new ways of thinking about KM and intellectual property (sticky and leaky knowledge), and education as an enterprise. (The sections on the future and role of higher ed. are must reading, and I'm not going to give it away here.) It does remain very readable, however, and that should count for a lot.
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