Knowledge Hoarding: A Bottleneck to Organizational Success

As an organization grows, vested interests assume predominance over organizational interest. This leads to predominance of hoarding of knowledge over its sharing; conflict over co-operation; 'group' over 'team'; fear over 'trust' and 'I' over 'you'. What was a single entity earlier now takes the shape of a segregated community. Organizational leaders should take a multi-pronged approach to counter this hoarding and simultaneously let knowledge flow freely benefitting everyone in the value-chain, argues the author.