My final piece of advice isn’t about helping you find things, but rather how you can help others find things. It’s also an observation on how the world and companies are changing in the information age, and how best to facilitate innovation and creativity.
Be an information fountain. Information used to be scarce and expensive, and power came through hoarding it and brokering it. Today it’s just the opposite. Power comes from sharing information. Tell everyone everything. The more valuable, the better. Sharing leads to connections, connections lead to collaboration, collaboration leads to creativity and innovation. Creativity and innovation are what change the world.
Lack of sharing can kill innovation in big companies where divisions turned into information fortresses. They compete with each other and end up guarding information from each other, as zealously as they do from competitors. Everyone loses as a result. Help others find their way by sharing information and ideas you have.
In conclusion, we live in a world with perhaps entirely too much information, opportunity, and choice. And in that world, finding the right piece of the puzzle becomes increasingly hard and increasingly important.
— Excerpts from the speech of Dr Marissa Mayer, CEO of Yahoo at Illinois Institute of Technology (IIT)
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