Know Your Value? Value What You Know: Manage Your Knowledge and Make It Pay [Paperback]

Mick Cope (Author)

Book Description

Publication Date: December 15, 2000 | Series: Ft

Do you know your own value? Do you know how to manage this value and how you can add to it? Your value is not about your salary, that's your cast. Your value is about your skills, your knowledge, your abilities, your experience. What are they and how do you use them to your advantage? If you've never thought about yourself in this way before, now is the time to start. As we move into an age of 'information wealth', you need to manage your personal capital - take what you know and make it pay. Know Your Value? Shows you how: its cost is small, its value immense. "Puts the focus of the knowledge economy back where it should be: on people". Lynn Hauka, Principal, Evening Star IT Project Management and Training "...the essential self-help guide for the knowledge age." Geoff Smith, Business Development Manager, Knowledge Transformation Services, Cap Gemini UK "Another brilliant analysis from an emerging academic and intellectual giant. If you are looking for a rigerous approach to knowledge management, look no further". Ed Percival, CEO, Leadership Resources It's not what you know anymore. It's what you do with what you know that really makes the difference.Make it Pay

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From the Back Cover

These days, you're worth what you know. But it's not just what you know. It's what you do with what you know that really makes the difference. This book helps you to understand, manage, and value your personal knowledge. After reading it, you'll be in a position to:

* work out how much your personal knowledge is worth in the market
* manage the way you seek and gather more knowledge
* promote yourself and your expertise

Work out what you know, how much it's worth, and how to make it pay. If this is the knowledge economy, this book is your personal investment plan.

About the Author

Mick Cope is an independent consultant and author. His previous title include The Seven C's of Consulting and Leading the Organisation to Learn (both Financial Times Prentice Hall)

Product Details

• Paperback: 256 pages
• Publisher: Financial Times Management; 1st edition (December 15, 2000)
• Language: English
• ISBN-10: 0273650327
• ISBN-13: 978-0273650324
• Product Dimensions: 8.1 x 6.7 x 0.6 inches
• Shipping Weight: 13.4 ounces
• Average Customer Review: 3.0 out of 5 stars  See all reviews (2 customer reviews)
• Amazon Best Sellers Rank: #1,575,215 in Books (See Top 100 in Books)

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2 of 2 people found the following review helpful:

4.0 out of 5 stars Do you manage your knowledge?, August 12, 2002

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Kenmo Fredrik (TULLINGE Sweden) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Know Your Value? Value What You Know: Manage Your Knowledge and Make It Pay (Paperback)

There are loads of books about managing your time, but what about knowledge? The book argues that 'knowledge is as valuable as a commodity as time and so needs to be managed with as much care and attention'. This book is about learning how to learn. Interesting?

I'd say so. This is the first book I read on the subject and I must say that it was interesting. I believe that the author is right that knowing what you know and how you learn grows more and more important. The book starts with a section about knowledge. What it is, how things are changing in the workplace and how knowledge management is all about choice. It is up to you to choose what paper or books to read. The book will then introduce you to the K-profile, and how it can help you map your knowledge process. The five stages in the process are (5D) Discover, Delay, Dispose, Diffuse and Deliver. Each stage is described in depth in a separate chapter.

I have not yet used the model to map my knowledge, but I think I will sit down one day soon and try it practically. One thing that the book really reminded me of was the importance of thinking through WHAT you decide to read/study/learn. Does it fit in, what will you be able to 'deliver' with the new knowledge?...

1 of 1 people found the following review helpful:

2.0 out of 5 stars Badly needs an editor, August 19, 2002

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Samuel Reynolds (Denver, CO) - See all my reviews

This review is from: Know Your Value? Value What You Know: Manage Your Knowledge and Make It Pay (Paperback)

Personal knowledge management--understanding and managing ones personal knowledge, assumptions, and skills--is an important area. Little general information on personal knowledge management is available, so any book on the subject is working looking at. This book might have been a good overview and introduction, but I could barely force myself to read the first 30 pages.

The book seems reasonably well organized, but poorly written; any editor worth minimum wage could have worked with the author to bring the writing quality up to something readable. Given the effort and cost of writing, publishing, and distributing a book, I'm surprised this one made it into print at all.

I rated it 2 stars on the assumption that there is good material hidden behind the poor writing. Hopefully the publisher will get an editor to clean it up for a 2nd edition.