Yesterday I was sitting on a train going into London when I thought Id take a look around the carriage just to see what everyone was doing. I wanted to make a mental note because my five year old son always asks me what happened at your work today Daddy? So I put my newspaper down and took a look around me.
The chap beside me was reading a book about selling, the woman on the other side of the aisle was using her computer and the two men opposite me were discussing a presentation they had seen. Then it struck me – everyone around me was an information consumer. Everything they were doing involved the consumption of information that somebody else had provided.
Now that shouldnt have surprised me too much. After all, thats what I do – I sell information to people. But it was the train journey that reminded me how much information people are buying. They are getting it from books, online, in meetings, via reports – all sorts of ways. We live in an information society nowadays.
That means there is an opportunity for you. Whatever business you are in, you deal with information – and people will pay you for what you know and what you have...