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Individuals need to survive and grow in changing and sometimes turbulent organizational environments, while organizations and societies want individuals to have the knowledge, skills and abilities that will enable them to prosper and thrive. Personal Knowledge Management (PKM) is a means of coping with complex environmental changes and developments: it is a form of sophisticated career and life management.

Personal Knowledge Management is an evolving concept that focuses on the importance of individual growth and learning as much as on the technology and management processes traditionally associated with organizational knowledge management. This book looks at the emergence of PKM from a multi-disciplinary perspective, and its contributors reflect the diverse fields of study that touch upon it.

Relatively little research or major conceptual development has so far been focused on PKM, but already significant questions are being asked, such as 'is there an inherent conflict between personal and organizational knowledge management and how best do we harmonize individual and organizational goals?'

This book will inform, stimulate and challenge every reader. By delving both deeply and broadly into its subject, the distinguished authors help all those concerned with 'knowledge work' and 'knowledge workers' to see how PKM supports and affects individuals, organizations and society as a whole; to better understand the concepts involved and to benefit from relevant research in this important area.

Contents: Preface; The nature and value of personal knowledge management, G.E. Gorman and David J. Pauleen; Where is the wisdom we have lost in knowledge? A stoical perspective on personal knowledge management, Peter Case and Jonathan Gosling; From information to imagination: multivalent logic and system creation in personal knowledge management, Peter Murphy; Recovering the individual as the locus of knowledge: communication and personal knowledge management, Mark Wolfe; Systems intelligence as a lens for managing personal knowledge, Rachel Jones, James Corner and Raimo P. Hämäläinen; Managing your own knowledge: a personal perspective, Larry Prusak and Jocelyn Cranefield; Knowledge management and the individual: it's nothing personal, David Snowden, David J. Pauleen and Sally Jansen van Vuuren; Managing personal connectivity: finding flow for regenerative knowledge creation, Darl G. Kolb and Paul D. Collins; No knowledge but through information, William Jones; Personal knowledge management and knowledge worker capabilities, Thomas H. Davenport; Exploring the linkages between personal knowledge management and organizational learning, Ricky K.F. Cheong and Eric Tsui; The importance of personal knowledge management in the knowledge society, Karl M. Wiig; Index.