T he world of managerial leadership is about to receive a profound and swift kick, thanks to the Internet. Data of all kinds have been ladled onto our computer screens. Real communication between people rarely rests on the simple transfer of data. Human beings have the rare ability to take data and from it infer information, which for me is data made personally relevant. But it's the next step which makes revelation out of information.
Data recast into thoughts, concepts, and ideas are the real fruit of information exchange.
Business and the organizational world provide ripe illustration of the point. Getting such data is a snap. Here, too, basic data grows to information that is easy to procure. The Internet presents the opportunity for a much better way to communicate. By publishing e-books online, the real power and potential of the Internet starts to emerge for all of us.