KNOWLEDGE
Knowledge is at the core of what it is to be human, the capacity which informs our thoughts and determines the course of our actions. Our growing focus on, and understanding of, knowledge and its consequent actions is changing our relationship with the world and AI is changing that acceleration.
Knowledge Movement
Knowledge Activation through Symbiotic Intelligence: A New KM Paradigm (2026) by Alex Bennet and Cheng Gong. Knowledge Activation and Symbiotic Intelligence provide the foundation for a renewed approach to Knowledge Management—one that builds on the field’s intellectual heritage while extending it into a domain shaped by technological transformation and organizational complexity. This is not a departure from KM, but an evolution of it: a movement toward a more dynamic and forward-looking paradigm.
The structure of the book reflects this perspective. Five interrelated dimensions—Knowledge Implants, Movement, Synthesis, Ecosystems, and Governance—capture a critical aspect of how knowledge is activated, offering both conceptual clarity and practical relevance. These five dimensions accumulate, each one revealing something about the others that could not have been seen before the preceding sections were in habited, becoming a coherent view of KM’s future trajectory.
The mandala at the book’s center turns continuously. What you understand of it during the journey is different than what you understand at the end. This is not an orientation to be solved before you begin. It is the nature of the journey. The knowing and doing -- 知行合一 –are one movement. Section One is open source.
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Reblooming the Knowledge Movement: The Democratization of Organizations (2023) by Alex Bennet and Robert Turner with Foreword by Rory Chase unfolds on millennia of human challenges and advances. At every level and at every reach across organizations, networks, and nations, there is a new coalescing of democratization, intelligent learning, and capacity for surmounting growing complexity. Seeking resonance and coherence, the emergent result is the rich globalization of knowledge and its close companion, innovation. This foundational book is NOW open source.
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This book boldly offers the reblooming Knowledge Movement as an accelerating causal force in the expanding global environment. It emboldens a bright new millennium of human transformation.
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Knowledge Theory
Because knowledge determines the quality of every single decision we make, it is critical to learn about and understand what knowledge is. As humanity moves toward intelligent activity, knowledge, incomplete and imperfect, ever changing, is the currency of our journey.
The Course of Knowledge: A 21st Century Theory
by Dr. Alex Bennet and Dr. David Bennet with Dr. Joyce Avedisian
We are in a continuous cycle of knowledge creation such that every moment offers the opportunity for the emergence of new and exciting ideas, all waiting to be put in service to an interconnected world. Learn more about this exciting human capacity. Review by Dr. Moria Levy
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Knowledge Mobilization in the Social Sciences and Humanities: Moving from Research to Action (2007) by Alex Bennet and David Bennet. With: Katherine Fafard, Marc Fonda, Ted Lomond, Laurent Messier and Nicole Vaugeois. In cooperation with: The Social Sciences and Humanities Research Council of Canada (SSHRC) with Foreword by Francisco Javier Carrillo
This book takes the reader from the University into to the playground of communities. It shows how to integrate, move and use knowledge, an action journey within an identified action space that is called knowledge mobilization. Whether knowledge is mobilized through an individual, organization, community or nation, it becomes a powerful asset creatin a synergy and focus that brings forth the best of action and values. Review by Dr. Moria Levy
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From a 21st century viewpoint, we explore a theory of knowledge that is both pragmatic and biological. Pragmatic in that it is based on taking effective action, and biological because it is created by humans via patterns of neuronal connections in the mind/brain.
The Haze of Time: The Recursive Dance of Knowledge and Temporality
by Alex Bennet and Robert Turner
"With the extensive depth and breadth of research for which Mountain Quest Institute is recognized, Alex Bennet and Robert Turner have come up with the means for us to more deeply understand and appreciate the recursive relationships between knowledge and temporality. This will be an essential skill for navigating the accelerating complexity of the 21st century, regardless of your vocation or profession." (Excerpted from the Foreword by Art Murray, D.Sc., CEO, Applied Knowledge Sciences, Inc.)
Decision-Making and Knowledge
The Triumvirate of Action: Knowledge, Belief, Faith (2026)
by Alex Bennet with Foreword by Alicja Pawlaczuk
Knowledge, belief and faith form a comprehensive basis for human decision-making and action. We rarely act on knowledge alone--our beliefs about how the world works and our faith (whether religious, philosophical, or simply trust in ourselves/others/systems) all paly crucial roles in shaping our choices. This triumvirate recognizes that human acting isn't purely rational or evidence-based but incorporates the full spectrum of how we process and respond to reality, from the empirical to the intuitive to the transcendent. Review by Dr. Moria Levy
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Lived Fog of the Future: The Gift of Uncertainty (2026)
by Alex Bennet and Robert Turner with Foreword by Dr. Arthur Shelley
There is a moment most of us have experienced but rarely named. You stand at a threshold--a decision, a transition, a beginning or an ending--and the path forward disappears into something you cannot quite see through. It isn't darkness exactly. You can sense that something exists beyond here your vision reaches. There is ground ahead. There is a future taking shape. But its details, its contours, its ultimate destination remains obscured. We have called this feeling many different things ... Anxiety. Uncertainty. Fear. Confusion. Being lost. What we have rarely called it is what it actually is: The natural and necessary terrain of a fully lived human life.
A companion work to The Triumvirate of Action, this book focuses on the terrain of uncertainty. Together they form a framework for understanding not just how to move through uncertainty, but what uncertainty actually is, why it exists, why you wouldn't want it eliminated, and how to inhabit it with increasing grace, wisdom, courage and even gratitude.
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This book is filled with new ideas married to practical advice—all embedded within a thorough description of the new organization in terms of structure, culture, strategy, leadership, knowledge workers and integrative competencies.
Decision-Making in The New Reality: Complexity, Knowledge and Knowing (2018) by Dr. Alex Bennet and Dr. David Bennet
Taking a consilience approach, this book explores decision-making fully engaging systems and complexity theory, knowledge research, and recent neuroscience findings. It also presents methodologies for decision-makers to tap into their unconscious, accessing tacit knowledge resources and increasingly relying on the sense of knowing that is available to each of us.
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The Interweaving of Emotion and Knowledge with an AI Addendum (2026)
by Alex Bennet and Robert Turner with Foreword by Michael Stankosky
Certain emotional experiences might function as portals to knowledge that can't be accessed through normal cognitive-emotional processing. the "deep knowledge" that emerges isn't just synthesis of existing information--it's accessing something that becomes available only through a particular emotional-energetic state. Thus began the identification of five "emotional gateways" to knowledge and decision-making, distinct pathways to different orders of knowing that become accessible through specific emotional states. These states optimize reception of information from the larger field, learning interference, expanding bandwidth, accessing deeper frequencies, creating urgency that cuts through noise, or achieving integration states that allow complex pattern recognition. Review by Dr. Moria Levy
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Leadership and Knowledge
Leading with the Future in Mind: Knowledge and Emergent Leadership (2018)
by Dr. Alex Bennet and Dr. David Bennet
This book provides a research-based tour de force for the future of leadership, covering the essentials of working, learning, and leading in an ICAS, covering knowledge and complexity, but also passion and spiritual energy. As social creatures living in an entangled world, our brains are linked together. We are in continuous interaction with those around us, and the brain is continuously changing in response. Wrapped in the mantle of collaborative leadership and engaging our full resources--physical, mental, emotional and spiritual--we open the door to possibilities. We are dreaming the future together.
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