Over the years, I have been baffled by the fact that organisations have this amazing ability to refuse learning. Recently I was invited to talk at a seminar in Pune and during my efforts to create a presentation I stumbled upon an interesting quote
“Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it”... Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), quoted in Boswell's Life of Johnson.
Some of the questions that usually arise in informal corridor conversations revolves around why are we reinventing the wheel? Why are we repacking the whole thing? We know this isn't going to work but why are they asking us to do it? etc etc... Then when I stumbled on this interesting quote... I probably got my answer.
Therefore anyone who is trying to perculate or create a culture of knowledge sharing and management need to also understand that not all people are interested in gaining knowledge and maybe they are content with what they have....And therefore the need to reward and recognise people.
In organisations, the need to do what the management wants is one of the key drivers. Therefore the involvement and the need to make the key decision maker(s) an evangelist of knowledge sharing is the need of the hour...that is if you want to be a successful knowledge management professional
“Mankind have a great aversion to intellectual labor; but even supposing knowledge to be easily attainable, more people would be content to be ignorant than would take even a little trouble to acquire it”... Samuel Johnson (1709 - 1784), quoted in Boswell's Life of Johnson.
Some of the questions that usually arise in informal corridor conversations revolves around why are we reinventing the wheel? Why are we repacking the whole thing? We know this isn't going to work but why are they asking us to do it? etc etc... Then when I stumbled on this interesting quote... I probably got my answer.
Therefore anyone who is trying to perculate or create a culture of knowledge sharing and management need to also understand that not all people are interested in gaining knowledge and maybe they are content with what they have....And therefore the need to reward and recognise people.
In organisations, the need to do what the management wants is one of the key drivers. Therefore the involvement and the need to make the key decision maker(s) an evangelist of knowledge sharing is the need of the hour...that is if you want to be a successful knowledge management professional
* The photograph was shot in Kabini, near Bangalore on a 350D Cannon
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