{"id":6067,"date":"2012-02-01T05:00:00","date_gmt":"2012-01-30T09:06:48","guid":{"rendered":""},"modified":"2012-01-30T15:27:46","modified_gmt":"2012-01-30T09:27:46","slug":"as_the_transmission_of_knowled","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/kk.org\/newrules\/as_the_transmission_of_knowled\/","title":{"rendered":"As the transmission of knowledge accelerates,&#8230;"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><strong>&#8230;as more possibilities are manufactured, the unabated push of incremental growth also speeds up.<\/strong> In the long run, creating and seizing opportunities is what drives the economy. <span class=\"nr-highlight\">A better benchmark than productivity would be to measure the number of possibilities generated by a company or innovation and use the total to evaluate progress.<\/span><\/p>\n<p><span class=\"nr-emphasis\">In the short run, though, problems must be solved.<\/span> Businesses are taught that they are in the business of solving problems. Put your finger on a customer&#8217;s dissatisfaction, the MBAs say, and then deliver a solution. This bit of hoary advice inspires business to seek out problems. Problems, however, are entities that don&#8217;t work. They are usually situations where the goal is clear but the execution falls short. As in, &#8220;We have a reliability problem,&#8221; or &#8220;Customers complain about our late delivery.&#8221; In the words of Peter Drucker, &#8220;Don&#8217;t solve problems.&#8221; George Gilder distills the essence further: <span class=\"nr-emphasis-less\">&#8220;When you are solving problems, you are feeding your failures, starving your successes, and achieving costly mediocrity.<\/span> In a competitive global arena, costly mediocrity goes out of business.&#8221;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>&#8230;as more possibilities are manufactured, the unabated push of incremental growth also speeds up. In the long run, creating and seizing opportunities is what drives the economy. A better benchmark than productivity would be to measure the number of possibilities &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/kk.org\/newrules\/as_the_transmission_of_knowled\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"1","ping_status":"1","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":[],"categories":[206],"tags":[],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/newrules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6067"}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/newrules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/newrules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/newrules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/newrules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=6067"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/newrules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/6067\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/newrules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=6067"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/newrules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=6067"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/kk.org\/newrules\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=6067"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}