knowledge sharing principles

Shawn over at Anecdotes has shared his Principles of Knowledge Sharing. Shawn’s come up with the following and I thought it was worth sharing:

• Share what you know. We will share what we know with our colleagues.
• Help others learn. We will take time to help our colleagues learn.
• Engage in conversation. We will encourage open and rigorous dialogue, discuss and exploring assumptions, and speak our mind respectfully.
• Avoid reinventing the wheel. We shall see if what we are about to embark on has been done before rather than create things from scratch.
• Borrow ideas and use them. We will borrow ideas shamelessly (with attribution) and not suffer the ‘not invented here’ syndrome.
• Failure is learning. We will take time to learn from our successes and failures.
• Actively participate. We will promote cooperation, trust and active participation in project teams, task forces and networks.
• Discover new perspectives. We shall actively look outside our discipline in search of ideas, concepts and approaches that can be adapted and applied to meet our goals.
• Recognise and celebrate. We will recognise others for their intellectual effort and willingly share the kudos.
• Be story-tellers and -listeners. We will encourage one another to tell and listen to our stories.

I think I’m going to tack these up on my wall. Thanks, Shawn!