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The Importance of “Know Why”?

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In lean terms, doing everything else without knowing the purpose and meaning is a “waste” – because everything that is done without understanding the purpose is a cost. Understanding the purpose, context and meaning requires something more than simple “explicit knowledge”. Corporate culture rewards speed, action and progress.

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Experience and Expertise – A Few Thoughts

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To be able to think beyond tactics of work. Another realization is that more knowledge does not always mean more expertise. Ability to execute that knowledge does. That is because most explicit knowledge is widely and freely available now. That is “expertise”. To be able to relate our work with a larger context.