Steve Barth

An award-winning magazine writer, Steve Barth has spent the last six years specializing in knowledge management, organizational intelligence and knowledge worker productivity.

Over the last 25 years, however, Steve has written about cutting-edge research in physics, sociology, medicine, chemistry, geology, biology, electronics, engineering and environmental sciences.

He has covered new theories in domestic violence and quantum cosmology; explained the processes involved in leveraging buyouts and carving canoes.

Steve has profiled a foul-mouthed monk, an anonymous astronaut, a UN hostage negotiator, and a mystical geologist. His articles and essays have attempted to untangle the political, economic and cultural aspects of American trade and political relations in Asia. He conducted the very last interview with quality guru W. Edwards Deming and wrote a book about Hawaiian natural history for the Smithsonian.

Every bit of this experience has proven useful in the work he has done since the first issue of America's KM magazine in 1998 (which he joined after several years as senior editor at another Freedom Communications magazine, World Trade). The ideas behind the current knowledge management movement are hardly new, but KM presents a new framework for many of the efforts seeking to make the workplace more productive, more agile, more innovative and even more humane.

Since 2002, Steve has also been working with Dave Snowden's Cynefin Centre and several other groups as executive editor of Emergence: Complexity & Organisation (ECO) a new journal in development with Palgrave Macmillan publishing about the implications and applications of complexity theory to human organizations.

Steve is based in Long Beach, California.