And it is a very very valuable skill to have. The rate of your success as a knowledge broker is the length to which you can connect those structural holes, which are filled with a great amount of information, connections and crazy ideas (usually from another batch of useless information).
In fact the amount of useless information one can amass plus the confidence at which one can deliver it is directly correlated with the amount of money one will make disseminating this information.
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Knowledge brokers are good futzers because, well, futzing leads to more knowledge. Maybe someday, bridging those structural holes will be automated, but for today, it’s an incredibly creative and valuable job done by master futzers all over the world.
This is why i so enjoyed ETcon 2003. Wandering around between different rooms filled with knowledge, bridging people’s information to each other. By the end of the conference I’d brought together several folks who otherwise might not have met so clearly. How can I develop a career out of this knowledge bridging?
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