It can be argued that these radical rebel angels are behaving like true oligarchs, hoarding knowledge, resources and privileges for themselves.
If your employees don't know how to play nicely together, having the tools to communicate is not going to combat tendencies to hoard knowledge and resist sharing progress with one another.
The reduction in complementarities among workers arises because gig workers have an incentive to hoard knowledge so as to increase their likelihood of receiving additional contracts from the firm.
Don't hoard knowledge, rather embrace transparency.
Meanwhile, digital rights campaigners Open Rights Group has accused GCHQ of a "very dangerous strategy of hoarding knowledge of security problems".
Success no longer comes from hoarding knowledge, which was the key to job security in the past; it comes from sharing knowledge and helping the company solve its problems.
But one barrier to passing deep smarts along to the next generation that is often unaddressed is the expert's inclination to hoard knowledge.
Rather than hoard knowledge to exploit it, he wrote in "The Meaning of Open," share it and watch Google and the entire Internet prosper.
Our findings advance extant research on how the interplay between corporate-level organizational culture and cultural elements at lower organizational levels influences individual choices on (1) which types of knowledge are most important to transfer, (2) under which conditions knowledge may be shared or hoarded, and (3) the extent to which it is acceptable to share or hoard knowledge.
The capability to transfer deep smarts from experts to their successors, as one manager we worked with recently observed, is not just "nice to have," but an "absolute need to have". Hoarding knowledge is a luxury that no organization can afford.
You're paying experts to hoard their knowledge; they should be passing it on instead.
