How can you succeed at global competition if you don’t discuss knowledge. What is the pie of knowledge? Here’s my take on it.
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I recently posted The Art of Strategic Thinking on Squidoo. Why? It’s my attempt to help with the “know it all disease” that exists at universities, in corporate America, and on Wall Street. Where does this know it all disease come from? Well, I guess some people actually believe that because they graduated from a certain school or based on what they do for a living they know everything. That is just funniest idea in the world isn’t it? How can one know everything? What is it that Einstein said, “the only thing that gets in my way is my education.”
A gentleman. who works for probably the greatest asset management firms in the industry said to me during an interview, “Ev, it took us a long time to learn that one of the biggest problems that exists on Wall Street today is that we take really bright guys out of the best schools in the country and for some stupid reason we believe that leadership and management happens through osmosis. Its almost as if we get stupid building our companies.”
I admire this gentleman. He’s one of the few I’ve met that gets it! You see history does repeat itself. Over and over again. Leadership and management is not taught through osmosis. It needs developed and mentored. And where does great leadership start? With great integrity. How can one wonder why there is an integrity issue in corporate America? It’s simple. I call it arrogance and with that comes stupidity!
With wisdom, you realize the more you know you don’t know.
Copyright 2007 Ev Nucci
Yes Ev! I totally agree with you. I have also tried to realize what I don’t even know I don’t know. As you mentioned, awareness is the only way to get out of our arrogance. That’s why self-reflection on us is needed.
I’m not easily impressed. . . but that’s impressing me!
Here’s my perspective….we know what we know. There’s information that we know we don’t know… But what most in the world don’t realize is this vast sea of knowledge that we don’t even know we don’t know. That is my point. So when people “think they know everything” How can they?
YES I TOTALLY AGREE WITH U!!!