Here are two contrasting mind-maps on 5 different aspects of the world – Communication, Information, Business, Finance and People.
Before Internet
After Internet
I may have missed a couple of things. Please comment if there are points that can be added. I will update the mind-maps appropriately.
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From past few days, there have been lot of discussions happening in life around a concept very close to my heart– Entrepreneurship.
Someone who’s quite experienced to have started his own business, told me, that if you want to start something, don’t wait for the perfect idea to emerge, rather jump right into the bandwagon and take the risk. Entrepreneurship is not about answering “What do we start?”. In fact it is about answering the question “Do we start…now?”
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From “Personality Not Included” by Rohit Bhargava
“Truth is a loaded word. Marketing is not about the search for truth, and we all know it. If it were, no one would believe that a bottle of water shipped halfway across the world with an image of a Swiss mountain on it was any more healthy than one bottled in a Coca-Cola plant in Connecticut. To compensate for having a less than interesting “truth” behind their products, brands often invent a truth. If I told you the number of times I have been in meetings where people debated whether we should use the word healthful or healthy to describe a product, you’d understand the pain involved in trying to find a truth. Maybe you feel it already.”
I like this specifically, because it talks of the falseness of TRUTH in marketing and its so much TRUE…
Quite a pun of words, eh!
I am also looking forward to reading “The NEW NEW thing” by Michael Lewis. I borrowed it from my professor, but more of a friend Mr Pankaj Guglani, Founder, REDQUANTA.com
A tap, water, bucket, a person is data. The water comes from tap and fills the bucket is information. The phenomena that the person daily turns the water tap to fill the bucket is knowledge.
Then what is wisdom : The ability of the person to take a decision when to turn the tap on and when to turn it off, and most importantly why to turn it on or off is wisdom.
Wisdom is not just the application of knowledge. But it is the application at the right time, right place and in the right manner.
Humans are wise, per se. Every decision making process is an output of a wise choice.
Wisdom plays the role of the judge when the case of choosing between alternatives is presented in front of the court of brain.
Wisdom exists due to one sole fact of life : That life is a pattern of intertwined web of strings, each of which represent a set of "Cause And Effect". And that the brain needs to not just look at these strings but also the rationality and emotionality of the "Cause and Effect". Wisdom is the force that will act on the strings to create a perfect balance of strength and durability ( read "right and sustainable decision")
This brings out a very interesting topic : Is wisdom manageable.
Interestingly I came across few articles and websites, where a lot of discussion on the "Possibility of Wisdom management" is taking place. Quoting a few :
http://manypossibilities.net/2008/04/wisdom-of-knowledge-management/
http://www.greenchameleon.com/gc/blog_detail/wisdom_management/
http://knowledgefutures.wordpress.com/2008/04/16/wisdom-management-and-wisdom-leadership/
http://www.actkm.org/
To end this thread here's a thought :
“If brain were like a planet, then data, information and knowledge would be like humans in varying levels of intelligence and wisdom would be like the culture that integrates all three to have a meaningful existence.”
(Thanks to Prof Arkalgud Ramaprasad, whose five day session on KM and the practical approach of using a wiki, has intrigued me to write this article. Hopefully more will come on knowledge management)
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March 16, 2009
The next 2 days were supposed to be spent with KIEO students. Our first pitstop was BUNKA junior high school, under KIEO university.
So our journey starts with a small bag with a few clothes enough for next 2-3 days and we set out on the morning of 16th.
Pretty dust bins I saw on the roadside shop, 4 types, one for each category of waste. 
See this one ( and we thought we only hung our stuff outside in our balconies. 
When we reached the main gate of the school we saw this. The sign was designed by the principal of the school himself!!
Students discipline starts the moment you enter. You have to take out your shoes and put in the rack exactly in the same direction, and wear red coloured slippers inside.
We were welcome by a opening speech by the principal of the college Akira Watabe. The student to his right is Hiro, who helped in translating to english. He also had taken up the responsibility of being the leader for the day.
Post this we all gathered in a auditorium cum basketball stadium of the school. There were interaction sessions. Students were sitting there, most of them clueless as to what is happening. Some of us spoke about India and Indian lifestyle through a simple presentation. 
These guys are singing there school song for us. We loved the song. Will try to put it up here some time. 
Each of us was assigned one classroom to interact with and talk to the students. I was excited. They love Indian culture, especially hindi. If you say namaste to them, they will immediately flock around you and do a V sign, and echo namaste loud and clear. Here is how the class room look from inside. 
Each classroom has a AIM of its own which as a class activity they put up on a board. Noticeable is that each student also has a short term AIM to be fulfilled which he articulately draws and puts on the board. 
Was wondering do we find these in Indian schools? 
12:30 PM. Lunch time. Ate this-> 
Interestingly, extra curricular form a very important part of their school life. School nurtures the talents. Every open space all around the school on every floor had paintings, sketches, stories, poems written by students and pasted open. 
This is me(center), with Ukita Waru(left to me) and other Japanese student. 
This lot of girls were screaming out NAMASTE (hello) and BAHUT ACHHE (very good) when I greeted them similarly. 
After a lot of enjoying and talking with them, we left for our next stop which was KiraKara Street.
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This is the 3D me.
Make your own,
and we both get Coinz!
