The role of knowledge in business is familiar to all of us. Wisdom, however, is more elusive and its usefulness less wellknown. Knowledge can best be defined as “acquired facts.” Wisdom, however, is a ...

The conventional answer is no. Knowledge requires a knower, and there will be no sufficiently knowing minds around. But if information survives, perhaps in books or hard drives, maybe the knowledge ...

The American Constitution and other basic laws have enshrined the inalienable rights of people for over two hundred years, but we have not yet achieved these ideals. We still lack the collective ...

I was recently at a conference where one of the speakers said “Learning is more than gathering information”. That statement had a profound effect on me for many reasons. We looked at the difference ...

Alfred Lord Tennyson once said, “Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers.” This is easily understood as true, for knowledge is quickly acquired with effort, but wisdom requires experience, the best of all ...

For years I labored under the illusion that communicating knowledge about cannabis, or a wide variety of other drugs and alcohol, was the keystone for promoting recovery. I believed education was the ...

Every time I utter the word "wisdom," someone giggles or sneers. Wisdom, more so even than expertise, does not sit comfortably in a democratic, anti-elitist society. In an age dominated by science and ...