How do leaders acquire power?
CINDY MCLAUGHLIN
McLaughlin is a senior enterprise faculty member at CCL's Colorado Springs campus and formerly managed The Looking Glass Experience program in Greensboro. She holds an M.S. degree from Boston University.
T. S. Eliot asked, “Where is the knowledge we have lost in information?” During my career with the U.S. Department of Defense intelligence community and now as a CCL senior faculty member, I have heard the expression information is power. But is it really? Information that is not applicable or in some way useful to others is not knowledge; it's just a collection of facts. I could spend an afternoon memorizing all of last week's baseball scores, but if the task at hand is to solve a marketing problem, ...
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