Good discussion - though Dan I agree, that "not everyone will be as competent at self-learning and PKM. They will still need done help (direction and guidance) from time-to-time", and this is no different than how organizations functioned prior to the social media tools we have access to now. There will always be 'employees' or individuals that won't dig deep for learning content - but will adapt and determine how to source out the information, to turn into useful knowledge with the least amount of effort. I don't see anything wrong with this paradigm, except having the 'smarts' to know who to follow -(the chosen 'leaders' should that have a broad and robust PKM). But, followers who might be lazy, still have a PKM, but 'creates' his or her own PKM based upon the leaders he or she chooses to follow. Thanks for the good discussion - and excellent visuals Harold. Debbie