Business leaders squander valuable wisdom through disdain of the past [Download PDF version]: Li #197 Wisdom Does Not Age THE BUSINESS WORLD is handicapped by a failure to distinguish between knowledge and wisdom. By and large, business leaders display a form of ADD. New books become blockbusters and provide the buzzwords of the day, but as fads typically do, they reach a peak and decline into oblivion. The result is the failure to retain and apply wisdom from the past; often