INVERSION OF VALUE OF PHYSICAL TO VALUE OF MENTAL CONTENT OF PRODUCTS AND SERVICES
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INVERSION OF VALUE OF PHYSICAL TO VALUE OF MENTAL CONTENT OF PRODUCTS AND SERVICES
This intellectual work became as important, and often as arduous, as the physical labor of manufacturing products and delivering services.
Nicholas Carr • The Big Switch
Here are the tenets of value, in your life and in your career, and most certainly with your clients: • Value is manifest in an improved condition. • Value is also manifest in maintaining the current condition through effective preventive work and flexibility in managing volatility. • There is more value in improving performance and raising the bar
... See moreAlan Weiss • Million Dollar Consulting
To put a value on the digital world by only tallying the money that changes hands is a little like trying to place a value on sex by simply measuring the amount spent on prostitution
Rory Sutherland • Rory Sutherland: The Wiki Man
Identifying and defining the hierarchy of mental content, which, in order of increasing value, are: data, information, knowledge, understanding, and wisdom. However, the educational system and most managers allocate time to the acquisition of these things that is inversely proportional to their importance.
Russell Ackoff • The Systems Thinker – A Lifetime of Systems Thinking - The Systems Thinker
In the industrial world, the main unit of input was man-hours. In post-industrial work, the main unit of input is concentration.
Dror Poleg • Slack and the Imaginary Economy.
Indeed, many of us have found ourselves in some way in the business of creating content, messaging, ideas, designs, identities. Even our leisure time somehow seems bound up in producing or consuming free content for the platforms of the attention economy. All that was solid has melted into air.