If You Want To Be an Influential Info Pro, Look for the Not-Ordinary Nuggets

摘要

In his book The Tipping Point, Malcolm Gladwell refers to people he calls "influentials," who are unusually informed, persuasive, or well connected. Although Gladwell is concentrating on social epidemics, the definition of an influential hit a chord with me as I thought how that phrase aptly describes an information professional. If we cannot be unusually informed within our organizations, we might as well give up, or at least say goodbye to career advancement. Looking at definitions of "unusually,"I came across words like remarkably, exceptionally, and extraordinarily, which, to me, are just extensions of the word "very."