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Chief Ignorance Officer

The term "Ignorance is Bliss" has found its true home in Gray's article "Wanted: Chief Ignorance Officer". The title of the article is captivating and the way Gray develops the idea of ignorance, "nescience", as he defines it is outstanding. He begins by stating that in recent years the Chief Knowledge Officer (CKO) "has found a home in the executive suite as companies have realized that often their single most important asset is their intellectual capital", he then introduces the term "CIO" Chief Ignorance Officer and proposes that the time has come for the CKO to be joined by the CIO.
He brilliantly chooses to use the term "nescience" to refer to ignorance, to avoid the negative pejorative connotations of "ignorance". His contention is that little attention has been paid to nescience as a resource because most of us will readily admit and taunt our knowledge on any particular subject, but prefer to downplay our ignorance. He states that "unlike knowledge which is definitely......


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