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ICAP

The Intelligent Complex Adaptive Professional

The papers below offer a variety of components related to the ICAP concept.  Personal Knowledge Management includes the individual managing information, managing learning and managing relationships.  (See Relationship Network Management in the Social Knowledge area.)

Exploring Passion  What role does passion play in creativity?  What is the connection between passion and leadership?  What is the relationship between passion and reason?  Is there an intellectual passion?  Can passion be used as a determinant or indicator of value?  These are some of the questions this paper explores. (PDF, 12 pages)

Framework for Exploring Passion.  Graphic that accompanies the paper.  (PDF, 1 page)

How to Become an ICAP  A short presentation that defines terms, provides a model for Personal Knowledge Management, and provides health factors for an ICAP. (PDF, 13 pages)

Knowledge Management, Learning and the Knowledge Worker.  Paper addresses the following areas:  The Changing World, Some Baseline Definitions, Knowledge Workers, eLearning, Action Learning, Accelerated Learning, and Learning Beyond the Professional Area.  (PDF, 11 pages)

Managing Self in Troubled Times: Banking on Self Efficacy.  An in-depth paper. Since all action comes from self—either consciously or subconsciously—our frame of reference is the Self, considered as an intelligent, self-organizing complex adaptive learning system (ISOCALs), more commonly referred to as the mind/brain/body.  (PDF, 30 pages)

Multidimensionality:  Building the Mind/Brain Infrastructure for the Next Generation Knowledge Worker.  The many dimensions of the mind/brain are explored in this paper as they specifically relate to knowledge work in a changing, uncertain and complex environment.  Along the way four tenets are forwarded that directly impact the knowledge workers, leading to a discussion of building the infrastructure (Capacities) of the mind/brain in support of sustainability.  (PDF, 17 pages)  See the paper "Values as Knowledge" in the Values area.