It seems to me that institutional knowledge (IK) is like common sense. Much as there is rarely anything ‘common’ about common sense so is there rarely anything remotely ‘institutional’ about institutional knowledge. Most often, IK is the province of your more rabid ivory-tower, b-school types who use IK as an excuse to justify chairing more…
Managing abundance and the Creativity of Teams
This is brilliantly succinct: "But we are shifting, too, from a culture of scarcity to one of abundance. That is the essence of the Google worldview: managing abundance." http://www.buzzmachine.com/2008/08/07/the-myth-of-the-creative-class/ To the further point, collaborative creativity is in a different class - it's a different animal - than that of the individual. This is not a…