This reminds me of the Zen proverb that I ran across a few months ago, and now have pasted on the wall above my desk: "To know and not to do is not yet to know

This reminds me of the Zen proverb that I ran across a few months ago, and now have pasted on the wall above my desk: "To know and not to do is not yet to know." There is something very real in the action taken from knowledge that looks so minor in foresight, and is so huge in hindsight. Like Goethe's famous quote about the power of action. There is also the book "The Knowing-Doing Gap", which takes this idea into the organizational context.