This week we are going to focus on Location - the first of the 3 areas which are the core skills of the Waggledancer. Check out the video page for a brief introduction to them. I plan to take a week on each then cycle round again for variety's sake. Location is a familiar skill for the strategist or insighter. Organisations depend on people who can find patterns in customer data or in the market place. Who can do it fast, consistently and accurately. So far this is not controversial. Where I believe there is a difference is that the strategist will be interested in enabling their colleagues to be able to use this information for themselves. Unlike the librarian or archivist who draws their importance from being at the centre of a web of information so once they have found something out becomes essential as a reference point if you want to find that again. This is a way of everybody's time including the librarians but it does ensure that they remain influential. The waggledancer takes a very different perspective. If you want to be effective then you have to allow others to find and use the same things you have learned. That's the point. And if they start to do it without you then so much then better. Because it means you have the time to go and locate something else. Knowledge is power. But it is power because we give it away. And don't attach ourselves to it.