Analytic information is the data with syntax that has meaning for a business. Leaders need to have faith in the accuracy and truth of information to determine its value for decision-making. This chapter outlines three philosophical theories for establishing the truth of information. The correspondence theory of truth comes from the school of analytic philosophy where there is a tight semantic connection between the data of a message and its meaning. The coherence theory relies on its consistency with related contextual information like climate change science, for instance. The pragmatic theory claims truth evolves during a process of debate within a team. All three theories have relevance to the management of information in a business.

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   Amor fati: loving, embracing one’s fate or life, whatever chance throws up, is Nietzsche’s much quoted formula for leadership courage. This theme has been grafted into the foundations of existentialism by postmodernists. For Kierkegaard’s elaboration of the ‘leap of faith’ see Kierkegaard et al. (1968, pp. 62, 91, 94, 95) and Kierkegaard et al. (1985, pp. 43, 46, 83).

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1. Highton, VIC, Australia

   Lindsay Dawson

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