Information: is it everything?

We are all so proud of ‘The Information Age’ as if we have invented it. This is far from the truth according to Doris Drucker who will take us on a journey exploring the impact of information in our lives.

Starting with the Big Bang and continuing through to the Darwinian evolution, information has evolved through many physical forms. Humans are unique as we receive information through sensory organs (eg eyes, ears) and our cognitive organ, the brain. Human beings are also a work in progress and a discourse on information is important today as we are at a critical stage in our relationship with one another and our environment.

Doris Drucker believes that we are heavily dependent on information which arrives in a binary form and that we are totally fixated on multi-tasking. As a consequence we are forgetting how to concentrate on one subject, with critical thinking and analysis being negatively impacted.

Mindless submission to information concerns Doris Drucker and she advocates that leaders build models which protect us from becoming mentally obese from ‘devouring’ information, just because it is there. We may be accessing a large volume of information, but how much is being converted to knowledge and enacted as wisdom.