{"id":49,"date":"2003-06-14T07:18:00","date_gmt":"2003-06-14T07:18:00","guid":{"rendered":"\/?p=49"},"modified":"2005-04-11T04:53:07","modified_gmt":"2005-04-11T04:53:07","slug":"smart-business-how-knowledge-communities-can-revolutionize-your-company-by-dr-jim-botkin","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/2003\/06\/14\/smart-business-how-knowledge-communities-can-revolutionize-your-company-by-dr-jim-botkin\/","title":{"rendered":"Smart Business: How Knowledge Communities Can Revolutionize Your Company, by Dr. Jim Botkin"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>I got this from the library, because I&#8217;m interested in communities and how they might relate to business, but it turned out to be incredibly lame.  I can&#8217;t really say that I read it &#8211; I just skimmed through it because it was so badly written that I couldn&#8217;t take it.  It seems to be a lame attempt at applying <a href=http:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/book\/cultivatingcommunities.html>Etienne Wenger&#8217;s theories<\/a> on communities of practice to business.  But Wenger&#8217;s writings are much more convincing.  I should have figured out that any book where the author insists on listing himself as &#8220;Dr. Jim Botkin&#8221; was probably lame.  Plus any book without a bibliography is also lame.  Waste of time.  Don&#8217;t bother.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>I got this from the library, because I&#8217;m interested in communities and how they might relate to business, but it turned out to be incredibly lame. I can&#8217;t really say that I read it &#8211; I just skimmed through it because it was so badly written that I couldn&#8217;t take it. It seems to be [&hellip;]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"closed","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[13,3],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-49","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-management","category-nonfiction"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=49"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/49\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=49"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=49"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.nehrlich.com\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=49"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}