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Dismantling a Culture of Knowledge-Hoarding

Dismantling a Culture of Knowledge-Hoarding: “Hoarding” is probably not the best term. People often have very good reasons for not sharing knowledge (timing, nature of the knowledge, etc.). Hoarding should only describe a situation where the organization would benefit from knowledge sharing…but sharing doesn’t happen in order to build personal silos.
For most organizations today, a sudden reversal in knowledge hoarding would result in chaos. Information has to be needed in order to have value. Sharing is a waste if it’s not properly orchestrated with existing knowledge flow and technology systems. Most people are sick of “next-thing-ism”. Give us some that’ll work…something that’s simple…and something that doesn’t force us to revisit most of how we work. The problem is deeper than the problem (makes sense? :) )…organizationally, we need to build some type of process first, before sharing will be valued and useful.

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  1. soulsoup wrote:

    Dismantling a Culture of Knowledge-Hoarding

    Dismantling a Culture of Knowledge-Hoarding by Jamie S. Walters Despite the many corporate initiatives launched to decrease information-overload, increase teamwork, and facilitate knowledge-sharing, many organizations still find themselves stymied by c…

    Thursday, September 2, 2004 at 2:37 am | Permalink
  2. Mopsos wrote:

    Knowledge sharing litteracy

    Dismantling a Culture of Knowledge-Hoarding, by Jamie S. Walters in the CEO Refresher (Thanks George!) looks at why people hoard information in traditional work environmentsIn such environments, the organizational cultures traditionally rooted are ones…

    Thursday, September 2, 2004 at 12:36 pm | Permalink