The importance of knowledge as a key source of competitive advantage is now well established in management studies, as suggested by the growing literature focusing on knowledge creation and transfer (Kogut and Zander, 1992: Nonaka and Takeuchi, 1995: Strategic Management Journal Winter Special Issue, 1996). However, although concepts such as tacit knowledge and organizational knowledge unify mu…

People often ask me how long it takes to write my books. I answer that each book takes about a year to write, and about thirty years to gather the materials to write about. If I wanted to be even more accurate, I?d probably say sixty years, because getting the confidence to write a book took the love and unconditional support from my family of birth and the family I made: it took encouragement …

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Preventing Crime: What Works for Children, OVenders, V ictims, and Places is the first book that details the role of the Campbell Collaboration in assessing outcomes in crime and justice. I first heard about the Campbell Collaboration in the summer of 1999 and immediately decided to be part of this valiant effort to change the way crime and justice, education, and social welfare were implemente…

Creative visualization is the technique of using your imagination to create what you want in your life. There is nothing at all new, strange, or unusual about creative visualization. You are already using it every day, every minute in fact. It is your natural power of imagination, the basic creative energy of the universe, which you use constantly, whether or not you are aware of it. In the pas…

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The initial idea for this book came to me after a lecture that I gave in 1995 at the University of Newcastle in Australia. The lecture itself dealt with the psychological toxicity of certain patterns of contemporary enculturation, most notably those related to materialism and consumerism. In my usual fashion, I tried to ruffle a few feathers by challenging the audience to question some of the c…

The chapters in this volume are related to the conference, Reassessing the Cognitive Revolution, that was held at the Glendon campus of York University, Toronto, in October of 1993. The original idea for the conference came from a debate on this subject between Jerome Bruner and Stuart Shanker, which appeared in the pages of the journal Language and Communication. As Johnson explains in more de…

Complexity is a relatively new discipline with immense power to change our way of thinking and seeing the world. This, in turn, can change the way we ?manage?, design and structure organisations and create new ways of working and relating. The book has brought together a set of selected papers by European and American academics from a variety of disciplines, that look at both the development of…

From this perspective and that of Genesis, the opposite of looking at, listening to, or grasping is not blackness, silence, or lack of pressure, but unstructured energy, energy that does not afford the perceiving of things or events in the world. The energy in the physical world and the energy coded by the receptors at the periphery are neutral. Perceiving is not merely attending to parts of th…