From Information to Knowledge to Wisdom : My Journey

Four decades have passed since I graduated from the University of California at Berkeley with a PhD. My interests have evolved from information to knowledge to wisdom, from its process to creation. My focus has broadened from private firms to public organizations to communities and society, from management to strategy and to leadership. The more research I do and the more I meet people, I become more confident that it is our human nature to pursue excellence relentlessly according to our beliefs, passion, and commitments. My KnowledgeCreation theory, is about the being and the becoming of ourselves. In this paper, I will use my academic path as a guide to review how the theory on management, strategy, organization, and leadership evolved in the past half a century, and how the theory on Knowledge-Creation can play a vital role in the 21st century.