DATA TO WISDOM - Dee W Hock

The challenge in our time is that as our world becomes more complex, the normative ways in which many adults make meaning are increasingly inadequate—whether we are dealing with workplace demands, with questions of how to vote in national elections, or the relationships within our households. More is now asked of us, and as one of Kegan’s book titl

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Perhaps the simplest and best definition of wisdom I’ve heard is “knowing what information is important.” This kind of knowing is not solely done in the intellect. Data is constantly being fed into your unconscious, then cross referenced against your experience.

We must conceive of and implement wholly new forms of ownership, financial systems, and measurements free of the attempt to monetize all values which binds institutions to next quarter's bottom line and results in gross mal-distribution of wealth and power, degradation of people, and desolation of the ecosphere, or our stories will be increasingly ... See more