Posted by Barry on March 24, 2003 at 10:35:07:

In Reply to: The Safety of Ignorance? posted by Akhil Shahani on March 23, 2003 at 10:31:16:

I like that triangle a lot.

What I like is that be depicting Knowledge, Action and Wealth by the sides of an equalateral triangle, it conveys that all three sides should be raised together. That may or may not be the original idea behind the triangle, but it does convey that message very accurately.

Organizations are calling for "decisive action", but action without knowledge is chaos at worst, labor at best.

An organization that demands wealth only, specializes in creating demand, and loses the focus on knowledge and action.

These three should be raised in unison, and by raising one side, the other two sides can be raised.

Previously, the closest graphic that I saw to illustrating this, fell short. It was a sequence that read
"Data - Information - Knowledge - Action - Results". Then someone suggested placing this as a scale going up a pyramid, in that order.
The reason that I didn't like the idea is that as a rising scale, it placed "Action" as senior to "Knowledge", which communicated "work is senior to knowledge, therefore, work and don't think". It seems to me that action isn't senior or junior really, like wealth, it should only expand in unison with knowledge. Together they form a trio.

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• Re: Knowledge, Action, Wealth Akhil Shahani 09:37:59 03/25/03 (1)
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