Or maybe I ll even lose my job. This is ridiculous. You can not know everything about any topic in this day and age. Things are changing too fast and information is being spread too efficiently. We may live in the Information Age, but sometimes it can seem like the Dark Ages.
Businesses today are awash in a flood of data coming from all types of sources.
It comes in magazines like this one, by e-mail, in the mail, by phone, on voice mail, on TV and radio, from conferences, over the web, in business and technical books, and on and on and on. We listen, we try to observe and retain some of the information, and yet so much of it completely eludes us in terms of permanent retention. And, worse yet, even if information is retained somewhere, somehow, quite often we'll forget where it is or how to retrieve it. I know I've printed off many e-mails only to lose them and forget all about reading or responding to them. I don't think I'm alone.