Linking Thinking

Don’t Share—Build

July 29th, 2008

Victor Newman on the futility of everyone sharing everything in an organization: The first problem is the implicit economic paradigm people apply to ideas and knowledge: if everything is shared, it will be perceived to have little or no value. Second, you can spend as much time interpreting shared things of low value as high. Third, people will only share with those whom they respect and from whom they can expect a return or who share the same problem of preserving or reinventing identity. These people don’t always work in the same organization. And fourth, not everyone is either pre-disposed or equipped to create (leave alone share) knowledge.

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