Getting information vs using it
"Getting information is administrative, using it is strategic."
This powerful truth reminds me of the scene in the movie Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, where the masterful Li Mu Bai is fighting the young, highly talented aristocratic girl Jen. She's holding the famed sword Green Destiny, whereas he's wielding a... branch from a tree!
Yet, he was able to effortlessly defeat her.
The lesson I've learned is that information is merely a tool. Victory depends on how skillful is the mind that is contemplating the information and is applying it in a specific context.
Yet this super-strategic skill is taught nowhere. Peter Drucker in fact bemoaned the lack of "information literacy" at the workplace, at a critical time when knowledge is rapidly becoming THE ultimate resource in creating value.
However, despair not: there is one "secret" book that teaches how to find and leverage information for profit.
(To be continued...)
This powerful truth reminds me of the scene in the movie Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, where the masterful Li Mu Bai is fighting the young, highly talented aristocratic girl Jen. She's holding the famed sword Green Destiny, whereas he's wielding a... branch from a tree!
Yet, he was able to effortlessly defeat her.
The lesson I've learned is that information is merely a tool. Victory depends on how skillful is the mind that is contemplating the information and is applying it in a specific context.
Yet this super-strategic skill is taught nowhere. Peter Drucker in fact bemoaned the lack of "information literacy" at the workplace, at a critical time when knowledge is rapidly becoming THE ultimate resource in creating value.
However, despair not: there is one "secret" book that teaches how to find and leverage information for profit.
(To be continued...)
posted by Super Peter at 9:59 PM
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