Yes almost. What I was meaning was “effectiveness” because of applying the knowledge.

Talk to you soon.

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Raj

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Jagan

Thank you for your comments.

Just to clarify – “Insanely Obsessed” are not the same as Visionaries. I have not talked about Visionaries in my post. Insanely obsessed are those people that sometimes confuse the “means” and “ends.”

You learn something as a “means” to make something happen but sometimes you are so fascinated by the learning that – that learning will become the “end” and you forget to apply what you are learning.

There are many other ways to look at this graph as Jagan pointed out but I don’t want to confuse the two or map different models into one – which will further confuse everyone

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Rajesh

May be you should add a cavaet that this framework is applicable at the personal level and come out with another version which applies to a more social level.

While studying the communities and their interaction, I had read similar notions of the people involved in the community. But there definitions were a little different i.e. observers, commentors, and creators. Based on my interviews with leading community creators, I added a category to this definition called “Visionaries”.

Visionaries are equivalent to your category of “Insanely Obsessed”; and rightly so as they have seen the power of the communities and the content and they have taken the task of preaching what they have learned.

Effectiveness of the Visionaries (as measured by metrics set within the communities) drops as they no longer contribute to the day-to-day activities. But they play a very important role that is essential for longer term viability of the community, i.e. expanding the community and opening newer horizons for the community. And overall impact of the visionary on the community can be huge, though it is impossible to measure. But good visionaries do not stay in this place for long, as they find the next new direction and take up the role of Creators for that new direction.

So getting back to your framework, maybe there is a loop path for some “Insanely obsessed” people to go back to “Influenced Actor” with new direction.

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Jagan

Thank your for your comments. Yes, the line between 5 and 6 can be blurred. What I have seen is that many people are in 6 (Insanely Obsessed) but are thinking that they are in 5 (Inspired Actors.) They don’t discover (until very late) that they have all this expertise that they have accumulated but have not applied it to use.

This article was mainly to remind people that the marketplace does not give a huge premium to “knowing” alone. They have to “do.”

Have a great week ahead.

Best,
Raj