Harvard Business School’s tallest professor, Clayton M. Christensen, commenced his bestselling book, The Innovator’s Dilemma, with a section called “In Gratitude”. Towards the end of this section Christensen expresses gratitude to his wife. “Most of the ideas in this book,” he says, “went home on some night over the past five years in a half-baked condition and returned to Harvard the next morning having been clarified, shaped and edited through my conversations with her”. In this brief acknowledgement Christensen embodies and demonstrates communication as a thinking tool.

Blogs, including this blog, are one means of communicating ones ideas to the world.

Blogs, including this blog, are a means by which one clarifies shapes and edits his half-baked ideas and thoughts.

In the coming couple of weeks, I’ll be conducting an in-depth research on the topic of thinking. Accordingly, I’ll be posting – hopefully – many posts, sharing my half-baked ideas, hoping that you’ll help me clarify them, sharpen them and edit them.

None of us had been born knowledgeable… Each one of us has accumulated knowledge over the days, weeks, months and years… through reading what others have wrote, listening to what others have taught and experiencing what others have made possible… Our knowledge is not ours only… Others have some right over our knowledge… after all, without others we would have known nothing… Others have the right to access our knowledge … This blog is the window