Attention
GeorgeNemeth recently posted this blip from Computer World…
Knowledge management is not a playful buzzword but a dynamic initiative companies need to take more seriously if they want to harness their most valuable corporate asset: Knowledge.Knowledge? How about Time? I’ve heard others, Tony Schwartz among them I think, say that Time is our most valuable asset. And what about People? I thought they were any organization’s most valuable asset.
Actually, I think none of these is the real bottom line. Knowledge is only valuable if people pay Attention to it. Time only important if we focus our Attention in it. And people only valuable if they give their clear, full Attention to their work. But how to invite that quality of Attention? I think we have to do that by giving our own Attention to those things that matter most in our work.
So Attention must be our most valuable asset, for each of us and each of our organizations. Until we look directly and work directly with Attention — how we invite it, focus it, move it and apply it — I think we’ll continually miss the mark, individually and organizationally. OpenSpaceTech, of course, works directly on and with organizational attention. It is invitation, focus, movement and action. It moves us closer and closer to the marks we want to hit.
So what are you giving Your Attention to this week? And how do we get Your Attention recognized as the primary tool of business and organization?