Lock-Step Equity: Knowledge-Sharing and the Bottom-Line

Internal competition doesn’t contribute to a healthy bottom-line, for individual employees or the organization as a whole. John Tropea illustrates the relationship between knowledge-sharing and money:

The workplace has to change from the “competition” model to the “social” model.

In this ecosystem blogs and wikis help you share knowledge easier and more effectively, and the more tuned this system is, the more the know-how is spread. And the more you know, the better you can perform, and the better you perform, the better the enterprise performs, and inturn guarantees everyone a pay cheque.

In an indirect way knowledge sharing = money.

I agree, except I think the relationship of knowledge-sharing and money is more direct than you might think. People are used to thinking of their workday activities as indirectly affecting the bottom-line because the competition model essentially keeps the average employee in the dark about how things really work, or how healthy the organization is. The sharing model makes it much clearer, so the average employee can see the impact of her or his work.