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Agreed. From what I've learnt (so far)...

Knowing which ideas to execute, when is the key.

Knowledge isn't power, acting on that knowledge is.

Similarily, Ideas are worthless without education.

There's a funny email I saw once about a consultant finding a faulty gauge amongst hundreds in a nuclear plant or something. He charged $10,000 for finding the bad gauge. Customer got outraged. So he modified the invoice. Fixing the gauge - $1, Knowing which gauge to fix, $9,999.

The flip side of this is when knowledgeable consultants don't get things done quickly. If you're going to hire someone at $5 overseas for 1000 hours, why not just pay someone more capable $5000 locally to get it done in a month (160 hours)?



http://www.snopes.com/business/genius/where.asp The point is a good one though.




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