Use every possible knowledge and wisdom to build your credibility

Build your wisdom

Good leaders, mentors and teachers preach us many life learning, best practices, pitfalls, dos and don’ts. We must learn quickly and not waste time implementing them. If you want to test them before you implement it, you may have to wait for a life time.  You can find a lot of knowledge and experience readily available by reading the vast repository of information in the form of books. You might probably be able to remember some learning someone taught you and instantly apply it to your own daily actions and thus help you improve, achieve and win.  If your preaching and practicing do not match, society can easily smell the rat without any cat.

Da La Rue, the world’s largest commercial banknote printer. The firm devises 100 or so new banknotes each year as well as around 2000 “design concepts” – a security feature, say, or a new image for a big-denomination bill. It has helped produce more than 150 currencies and won design awards. “Trust creates a high entry barrier into the industry. “Few firms can do what we do and those that can, have a long history and established relationships.” Says Tim Cobbold, Da La, Rue CEO. The business was founded in 1813. This is one of the best examples of walking the talk for almost 200 years. [Economist July’2012]

Yes, we do a lot of actions, to lead the people, organization, business and personal life. However, effective communication based on knowledge brings that element of credibility to the actions. All national and international preachers of all regions use the “knowledge” of their life time learning in to their preaching the real time lessons to the future generations of mankind.

A company that can successfully assemble and sell 11 million personal computers a year 1999 using 40,000 possible configurations is clearly one that has learned something about knowledge management. Each configuration is used average only about 275 times each year, Dell has captured the knowledge of its talented engineers in the process used to custom assemble PCs en masse. This advantage provides Dell with a 25 % share of the US PC market. By integrating the entire value chain with its knowledge management system, Dell has given itself an edge in the intensely competitive market [M T Hansen, N Nohria and T Tierney, “What’s your strategy for managing knowledge?” HBR, 1999].

 If, you want the age of the horse the best way to find out is to take a look at the horse’s teeth and mouth. So rather than asking the seller of the horse, about the beast’s condition, all you need to do is to get it straight from the horse’s mouth. Knowledge and wisdom are only the tools that can build your credibility.