The Great Forgetting – How Digital Amnesia Is Eroding Your Leadership Edge

Debbie Jenkins, Founder - Postnoted
 
When I was eight, I memorized entire pages of How It Works: The Computer, a battered Ladybird book I'd covered in red felt-tip annotations. I could recite the CPU diagrams, explain binary code and build cardboard computers with hairdryers for cooling.
That book taught me how memory really works: we don't just remember facts, we remember what we touch, what we struggle with, what matters enough to mark up.
Today, I watch CEOs and leaders frantically searching their phones for the strategy framework they "definitely saved somewhere". I see teams rebuilding solutions they created six months ago because no one remembers where they stored the original. We're living through the Great Forgetting and it's costing us more than we realize.
 
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