Comments on: the “gold fish” effect: knowledge and the corporation

By: Grant

Grant — Thu, 02 Jun 2005 20:11:38 +0000

Steve and Tom, Beauty! and frameworks are generally speaking not part of the HBS view of things. Still there is something to be said about the adaptive abilities of very smart people who are very observant and entirely versatile. No dead hand of competence here. No prisoners of the paradigm. Sometimes a low level empiricism demands the least intellectual “overhead” and causes the least conceptual friction! Best, Grant

By: Tom Guarriello

Tom Guarriello — Wed, 01 Jun 2005 21:14:58 +0000

Proving once again that you need some kind of framework to put experience into or it simply remains noise. If you don’t develop a framework by internalizing and integrating the rules of practice, you remain a “one year, 20 time” practitioner. This is how Dreyfus described the process of moving from novice to expert in any complex cognitive domain.

By: steve

steve — Tue, 31 May 2005 19:16:24 +0000

I believe the old saying is “You don’t have 20 years’ experience–you have one year’s experience 20 times.”