My love of knowledge-hoarding was part snobbishness, part proprietary, part nesting: I liked the idea that my favorite movies, books and music are for me and a select few others, because they're special and they're part of my life.
The prize money sets up competition among individuals and units that ought to be sharing knowledge, not hoarding it.
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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.
It can be argued that these radical rebel angels are behaving like true oligarchs, hoarding knowledge, resources and privileges for themselves.
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.
Meanwhile, digital rights campaigners Open Rights Group has accused GCHQ of a "very dangerous strategy of hoarding knowledge of security problems".
For months, he hoards this private knowledge, just as he hoards the printouts of Beth's e-mail messages.
Rather than hoard knowledge to exploit it, he wrote in "The Meaning of Open," share it and watch Google and the entire Internet prosper.
