As a Marine Corps intelligence officer in my previous life, my job was to help senior leaders answer the difficult question of “What should I do?” I was to collect millions of pieces of data, organize ...

The data-information-knowledge-wisdom hierarchy seemed like a really great idea when it was first proposed. But its rapid acceptance was in fact a sign of how worried we were about the real value of ...

A few decades ago (actually almost six, but who’s counting) I began a career in Electronic Data Processing — as we called it in those days. Today the same basic science is known as Information ...

Since I woke up this morning, I’ve received 30 mobile news alerts, 25 email alerts, and another 17 emails from investment managers providing their unsolicited views of the financial world. My Twitter ...

There’s a really simple way to understand the difference between data and information. When we understand the primary function of the item we are looking at, we quickly see the distinction between the ...

Dr. Gregory Stebbins is the Founder and Master Coach at PeopleSavvy. He is a member of the American Psychological Association. There are many variations of the word “hunch”: intuition, gut feeling and ...