- Paperback: 256 pages
- Publisher: Financial Times/ Prentice Hall; 1 edition (27 July 2000)
- Language English
- ISBN-10: 0273650327
- ISBN-13: 978-0273650324
- Product Dimensions: 20.6 x 17 x 1.6 cm
- Average Customer Review: 4.0 out of 5 stars See all reviews (1 customer review)
- Amazon Bestsellers Rank: 1,114,536 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)
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The age-old company slogan that "our people are our greatest" asset is true whether business realises it or not. Know Your Value sets out to provide a framework for calculating just how much of an asset you really are to your company--how much is that experience and knowledge worth? Mick Cope passionately believes that knowing your own worth begins with a willingness to accept responsibility for your choices: "You cannot say you don't earn enough because the company won't pay you. In the same way that you make choices about the clothes you buy, the food you eat, or the car you buy, you must now make choices about the way to manage your personal capital."
From this point, the book explores the value of knowledge--and the relative value of sharing, retaining and exploiting that knowledge. For example, revealing knowledge explicitly and tacitly can affect your own personal worth to an organisation--and different approaches are best suited to different occasions. Following Cope's argument allows the reader to create their own K-Profile. This will allow you to map your own personal capital and will--in theory--reveal where you are not exploiting your own assets. To get to this stage, however, is no mean feat: the book is laden with jargon, and can feel something like a psychology textbook.
It's worth the effort though. K-Profile created, the second half of the book provides concrete advice on your own personality type and your attitude to knowledge. Each possible outcome of the profile is discussed, with up and downsides. Categories discussed include experts, foragers, brokers and apprentices. For each category, there is also a negative characteristic--amateurs, egotists, freeloaders and blockers. Behind the jargon and inexplicable tables, this book has real practical value for knowledge workers--allowing them to recognise their own value and use that knowledge to improve communication skills, and point out pitfalls particular to a given personality. --Sally Whittle
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Do you know your own value?
Do you know how to manage this value and how you can add to it?
Your value is not about your salary, that's your cast. Your value is about your skills, your knowledge, your abilities, your experience. What are they and how do you use them to your advantage? If you've never thought about yourself in this way before, now is the time to start. As we move into an age of 'information wealth', you need to manage your personal capital - take what you know and make it pay.
Know Your Value? Shows you how: its cost is small, its value immense.
"Puts the focus of the knowledge economy back where it should be: on people". Lynn Hauka, Principal, Evening Star IT Project Management and Training
"...the essential self-help guide for the knowledge age." Geoff Smith, Business Development Manager, Knowledge Transformation Services, Cap Gemini UK
"Another brilliant analysis from an emerging academic and intellectual giant. If you are looking for a rigerous approach to knowledge management, look no further". Ed Percival, CEO, Leadership Resources
It's not what you know anymore. It's what you do with what you know that really makes the difference.Make it Pay
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4 of 6 people found the following review helpful
Format:Paperback
The author presents a model for personal knowledge management (KM), based around a tool called the 'K-Profile'. The tool can be used to reflect on the ways in which you learn, work, forget and share your knowledge.
Very few writers have attempted to scale down KM from corporate-thinking to the individual level. Somebody needed to - as the notion that anything other than a person can have knowledge is highly dubious.
Know your value? is quite a challenging read in both senses - it asks hard questions about how well you understand your own knowledge and how you manage it. But it can feel like quite a slog at times when going through all the permutations of the K-Profile Model.
Things got much better once I stopped trying to read it cover-to-cover. I found it much more rewarding to apply to K-Profile first and then focus on the sections relevant to me. The acid test is that I was provoked enough to take action - far too many management books tell great stories but have no lasting impact.
The biggest weakness of the book is that its hard to apply the K-Profile in this format without losing sight of the overview. Plus there's a catch-22 that although its best to run through the questions first, they don't always make much sense until you've read the theory!
In conclusion, not an easy read, but worth putting the work in. Recommended for HR, coaching and KM practitioners.
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Do you manage your knowledge?
13 Aug 2002
Format:Paperback
There are loads of books about managing your time, but what about knowledge? The book argues that 'knowledge is as valuable as a commodity as time and so needs to be managed with as much care and attention'. This book is about learning how to learn. Interesting?
I'd say so. This is the first book I read on the subject and I must say that it was interesting. I believe that the author is right that knowing what you know and how you learn grows more and more important. The book starts with a section about knowledge. What it is, how things are changing in the workplace and how knowledge management is all about choice. It is up to you to choose what paper or books to read. The book will then introduce you to the K-profile, and how it can help you map your knowledge process. The five stages in the process are (5D) Discover, Delay, Dispose, Diffuse and Deliver. Each stage is described in depth in a separate chapter.
I have not yet used the model to map my knowledge, but I think I will sit down one day soon and try it practically. One thing that the book really reminded me of was the importance of thinking through WHAT you decide to read/study/learn. Does it fit in, what will you be able to 'deliver' with the new knowledge?...
1 of 1 people found the following review helpful
Badly needs an editor
19 Aug 2002
Format:Paperback
Personal knowledge management--understanding and managing ones personal knowledge, assumptions, and skills--is an important area. Little general information on personal knowledge management is available, so any book on the subject is working looking at. This book might have been a good overview and introduction, but I could barely force myself to read the first 30 pages.
The book seems reasonably well organized, but poorly written; any editor worth minimum wage could have worked with the author to bring the writing quality up to something readable. Given the effort and cost of writing, publishing, and distributing a book, I'm surprised this one made it into print at all.
I rated it 2 stars on the assumption that there is good material hidden behind the poor writing. Hopefully the publisher will get an editor to clean it up for a 2nd edition.
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