Reinventing the Organization

CHAPTER 10

Information Sharing

How Can You Share Information, Data, and Tools within the Ecosystem?

One of the ironies of living in our age of hyperconnectedness and extreme “self-divulgence” through blogs, tweets, WeChat, WhatsApp, Instagram, Pinterest, and, yes, Facebook posts is that all this transparency and self-expression 24-7 has done little to change some fundamental aspects of corporate culture. In the era of #SayHerName, #MeToo, #BlackLivesMatter, #LoveWins, #MuslimAmericanFaces, and #codeofsilence, most corporate cultures remain places of careful disclosure, of cautious positioning and highly political consideration. Information is not transparently shared upward, downward, or sideways; nor is data or tools.

The mindset of not ...