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Articles by Fred Nickols

A "skullworks" is a place where work requires people to use their brains instead of their brawn.  It is a place where work is knowledge-based and people are knowledge workers.  Knowledge work entails both applying and creating knowledge.  Tangible knowledge work products include research reports, articles, whitepapers, the dreaded consultant's report, the equally dreaded PowerPoint presentation, theoretical expositions, not-so-theoretical recommendations for action and common workplace artifacts such as memos and e-mails.  Even the "thinking out of the box" logo on the right (created for me by my son, Matthew, a graphic artist) is a tangible product of knowledge work. 

My consulting practice - Distance Consulting LLC - is a skullworks and this section of my web site contains many of its products, mainly articles that I have written and published over the years.  It also includes a few papers by others.  So, welcome to my "skullworks."  Feel free to poke around and look for work products of interest to you and relevant to your needs and requirements.

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Blog Posts Book Reviews Communities of Practice & KM
Consulting File Formats General Interest
Organization Development (OD) Publications & Permissions Solution Engineering/Problem Solving
  Strategy Training & Human Performance   Work & Management

                                      

Publications, Permissions & Reprint Fees

Permission to use the materials on this site for non-commercial training and educational purposes is regularly granted.  For commercial use, the reprint fees are quite modest.  If there is an article on this site that you would like to reprint or make use of for training and educational purposes, send me an e-mail at fred@nickols.us stating the volumes you want to reproduce and a brief description of your intended use for them and you'll receive a prompt response.

Most of the articles on this site are in .htm and .pdf format.   Red links signify files in .pdf format.  Blue links signify a page in .htm or .html format.

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Note:  "A Seat at the Table" also appeared in Learning Solutions Magazine on 23 Aug 2010.

 

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Book Reviews

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Communities of Practice (CoPs) & Knowledge Management (KM)

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Consulting

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General Interest

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Organization Development (OD)

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Solution Engineering (Problem Solving)

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Strategy

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Training & Human Performance

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Work & Management

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This page last updated on August 31, 2010