What the top brass knows and doesn't know should be public knowledge. In the future, knowledge auditors will test not only for fraud but also for issue ignorance. If a management team is unaware or unconnected to the best thinking on an issue, you as an investor, customer or employee have cause for concern. Today, the inner workings of key corporate minds are considered off-limits and private. This has to change.
Senior management has a fiduciary responsibility.
We've found that some of the most profound and high-value insights emerge from conversations with smart people in shared spaces. One test of senior executives might be an analysis of whom they hang out with. Many executives haven't been involved in high-learning shared spaces for a long time. In the executive education industry, you'll see an increase in metrics of how executives use the information imparted to create value and more specifics regarding what's being taught and who's teaching it. You'll see a much more public ranking of gurus and teachers, those who own the issues of the day.