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Antipattern #11 · clarity · p. 91
Guarding Information
Making insights accessible to everyone creates transparency that fosters innovation.
The Tin Man Behavior
Building up bureaucratic restrictions around the knowledge of, access to, and use of strategically important data and information.
The Results
- ·Poor decisions based on incomplete knowledge
- ·Loss of competitive advantage, missed opportunities
- ·Emerging culture of distrust and control leads to the inability to effectively own outcomes and deliverables
How Octopus Organizations Behave Instead
- ↳They cultivate a culture of trust and transparency with information and leaders role modeling the behavior.
- ↳They default to making information widely and easily accessible through "pull-based" systems.
- ↳They establish minimal rules around confidential information.