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When corporate knowledge becomes invaluable
To many readers, this may sound like a paradox: how can knowledge ever become invaluable?
TL;DR
- Rigid corporate knowledge transfer can become a disadvantage, particularly for employees.
- Onboarding processes often shift from enabling understanding to enforcing conformity, stifling new ideas.
- Standardized thinking, resulting from "do according to the manual" culture, is the enemy of innovation.
- Breakthroughs typically originate from new mental models, not perfected existing processes.
- Onboarding often prioritizes adaptation to existing workflows over encouraging new perspectives.
- Organizations may scale activity instead of intelligence by focusing on rigid processes over critical thinking.
- When knowledge cannot be challenged or reimagined, it transforms into organizational inertia.