Taking a page from our own blog, Accord set out this week to review what we’ve written for the last year. The idea was simple: in managing our daily affairs, the projects that are before us, and how these shape our identity over time, something gets lost.

It can be likened to baking cookies: you roll out the dough and shape it with a cookie cutter. What remains on the counter is the potential stuff of cookies. In fact, I remember from childhood that the squooshing together of all that remaining cookie dough (which can be likened to the action of curating), allowed for a super-delicious special cookie—unlike the others in shape, size, and gratification for this baker.

Knowledge management is like that too. We’re embarking on a community-wide “Working Knowledge Initiative” program in November under the sponsorship of Congregation B’nai Jeshurun in New York City.  The WKI is rooted in the same knowledge management idea— but in application to the lifelong work and personal skills of underemployed professionals. Linked together, expanded as a team, and facilitated by Accord, these skills (like the cookie dough) can form the basis of a new entrepreneurial business; and provide its members both with new hope and revenue.

Now back to this site: the question before us was, “what have we missed that was on our minds as we have gone forward this year?”

Surprisingly, two significant developments emerged: The first was a fairly cohesive set of blog-essays on the psychological situation/adjustment of midlife individuals undergoing significant economic and personal transitions. We’ve decided to compile these as an “e-book” and place it in our site’s “White Paper” section.

The second was an understanding of what Accord does— based upon what has been on our minds as a result of our ongoing work rather than upon our original “Vision” and “Mission” statements.

Curating keeps us up-to-date with who we’ve become as we pursue what we do. We expect to re-visit what we’ve said about the Accord Advisory Group throughout our site with this new knowledge in mind. We like it. And hope you do, too.

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