Information comes every day. It flows from the pores of our civilisation,
from gadgets we create and maintain with the hope of improving our lives. Go and talk to an illiterate person whose
children or grand-children were able to go to university, the temple of
information, and you will listen to the changes in their lives that go beyond
physical: attitude is affected, perspective becomes different and lifestyle
turns into a new direction.
Information that is relevant may be called knowledge and you cannot deny its impact
at present. However, if you talk to
someone who graduated from college and has been hired by a company, you may
find that not everything they studied has proved useful.
Some people are able to discern all the bits and bytes
of information that are unnecessary or excessive, avoiding them, and turn what
is necessary into a transformational knowledge.
A leader is able to take one step further and convert it into wisdom.
Wisdom comes from knowledge that is well applied,
modified by lessons, experiences and experiments, by becoming part of the way
the person reflects, thinks, talks and acts.
If information is like molecules, we could say knowledge is like coal
and wisdom is a diamond.
Wisdom will guide the leader, by helping him or her to
guide others, sharing that diamond.
(Excerpt from the book 82 Reasons to be a Leader)
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