My Reflection on Steve Jobs' Speech

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First thing that struck me is how Steve Jobs used storytelling in his
speech. By telling three stories from his life, he was able to connect
well with his audience and drive the lessons from his stories in a
folksy way. As we learned from K6202 KM Applications & Practices,
storytelling can be an effective tool in sharing knowledge.

Doing what you love from his second story also caught my attention.
This prompted me to think, is KM really what I envision myself to be
doing, perhaps for the rest of my life? For now the answer is yes.
That's why I'm here studying KM. And even if my last job is in risk
management, I've always thought that it's closely related to KM, that
risk management is KM applied. And I look forward to the day that I
will be able to help organisations move forward with a judicious use
of KM.

In response to a groupmate's (Lin Ping) comment that the environment
here in Singapore is relatively more unforgiving of comeback kids -
I've no way of proving or disproving this having been in Singapore for
only a month. But in my opinion, an organisation or society will reap
great benefits if there's an allowance for people to learn from their
mistakes and experiences.

"Stay hungry, stay foolish." - This is very important for those in the
KM field. As KM practitioners it is important to exhibit a healthy
dose of curiousity about the things we see and observe around us. We
need to continuously ask questions and find answers so that we can
transform data into information into knowledge, and ultimately &
hopefully, into wisdom.