University of Johannesburg Knowledge Presentation

Knowledge, Wisdom and the new decade

for today

• Views from the front

• And 2015 ?

• Meaning for us

4 types of people

Know they don’t know

Active

Think they know

LazyPassengers

Destroyers

The Wise

adapted from Geldenhuys 2007

Go-getters

behaving as

Know they do not know

Think they know

adapted from Scholtz; personal communication

Tyrants

Bullies

Wise-asses

Doormats

Kings

Warriors

Wizards

Lovers

IN OUT Listening…

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OUT

A summary of what I thinkA summary of what I think

IN

Summary of what I hear and see

Summary of what I hear and see

What do this all mean for us?What do this all mean for us?

♥ necessary

♥ true

♥ believed

knowledge is

data-info-knowledge-insight-wisdom

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social implosions

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end of commodities

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“..it is not the strongest that survive, not those who are clever, but those that are the quickest to change…”

Darwin

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scenarios

Sunter 2007, Swartz 1999

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scenarios

Sunter 2007, Swartz 1999

Competitveness +

Competitveness -

Market

+Market

-

Too good to be true

Fools paradiseF MubarX

Grind away

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applied knowledge

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applied knowledge

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judgmental think

De Bono 2009

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parallel think

We all together:

create

judge

be empathic

organize

see the positive

get info

De Bono 2009

M Holesberger 2005

jazz model

wealth

C Luus

wealth = legacy

C Luus, pers comm

Every rand be earned

Wait and work

Beware of scams and promises

Know how much you:

earn,

spend,

save,

own and owe.

Know how much needed to retire.

wealth = personal

H Snyman, pers comm

Watch my back

Win at all cost

Perfectionist

Go getter

Optimist

Master of it all

Hard worker

Entrepreneur

High roller

investors need nutrients

nutrients of

humility,

openness,

positivity,

happiness,

faith and trust.

and

WISDOM

C Luus, pers comm

manage knowledge

be positively different

Robert Greene, 33 strategies of war

Good

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winners for tomorrow

• Work together

• Put together

• Show them how

• Do it different

• Apply it different

• Do it locally

• Care for the Earth

• Put myself in your shoes

Thomas Friedman: “The Earth is Flat”

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support and trust

Adeline & Andrea, Hugo, Judi

collaboratorsIngrid, Christo, Marianne, Yongama, Sheraan, Jacques,

Erni, Louwrence, Naas, Izak, Tertia, Denzil, Tania, Pieter, Daleen, Tanye, Andrew, Francois S, JP, Jaco,

Retha, Lynda, Henro, Jeanette, Vickus, Neil, Magdaleen, Martiens, Henk, Evan, Evan’s dad, Marita, Bob, Tom, Morne, Kirsten, Hugo, Wicus, FrancoisdP,

Gerriesponsors

Third Circle Asset Management, Pipeflow Pty Ltd

photosWilmien, Annelien, VDS, flickr (2)