A leader’s real work isn’t collecting information, or regurgitating it later, but making sense of it to the level you can make an informed decision. That is the Distill step of the CODEA² framework. Capture kept an idea from disappearing. Organize made sure you could find it again six months later. But neither one, by…
Most leaders don’t lack information. They lack a system for turning information into action fast enough to matter. I see this gap in some of the Community Health Centers and nonprofits I work with — not a shortage of data, but a shortage of structure. If you’re building a personal knowledge system using the CODEA²…
I think we all would agree that information management is a fundamental skill for every leader. But surprisingly, many leaders have never given thought to how they’d take in information, leverage it for use later, and have all the steps in between work towards ideas usable over and over again. Some methods are intentional. Others…
