Tuesday, September 23, 2008

Of Forgotten Lore

We begin this post once upon a midnight dreary - well, it's more like two in the morning. Like The Raven from Edgar Allan Poe, I am pondering over many a quaint and curious volume of forgotten lore. In this case, I'm pouring over some of my marketing and sales texts from the past and present in preparation to lead a couple of new teams at my various assignments. I don't remember late-night reading to be such a weird mind-bending experience. It has been a couple of decades since college, and I can still remember cramming management texts into my brain for short-term regurgitation.

Although I do believe that the shifting generations now play a key role in management theory, it's still interesting to note that many management principles and theory still have some relevance today. One thing remains constant - in order to succeed, you always have to be in continual learning mode. Once you stop learning, you start losing the capacity to make a difference. That's it for now. It's only this, and nothing more. Profound apologies to Edgar Allan Poe. See ya.

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