One of the first lessons I remember learning as a youngster was how to share. I can vividly remember hearing my mom telling me:
- "If you aren't nice and don't share with people, no one is going to want to play with you or be your friend."
Yeah I know, sounds heartbreaking. But we are still faced with this simple sharing (or lack there of) issue today when dealing with communities of practice. People are so unwilling to share ideas and knowledge on certain areas because they are afraid their ideas will get stolen. To help improve this companies should work towards building incentive programs that award people who share ides to get work done. Work will be done more efficiently and effectively, which will have a positive affect on everyone involved.
And as the old saying goes:
- "Two heads are better than one."
1 comment:
In the business environment, I completely agree with you. The ideas of a company's employers are very important to the company as a whole if it can effectively and efficiently increase production.
I do see too many people in the workplace that keep their ideas and techniques to themselves because they feel it gives them a competitive edge for raises/promotions amongst their colleagues. This practice needs to stop because it hurts the company as a whole...building a social network and adding incentive programs definitely would help with this problem
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