On March 2, 2011, Pakistan\u2019s Minister for Minority Affairs, Shahbaz Bhatti was assassinated.\u00a0 Like others before him (including Benazir Bhutto), he was killed for standing up for the right of Pakistanian citizens to believe in whatever they wanted to believe.\u00a0 In this case, Bhatti was a Christian, and (to his detriment) was outspoken about it.\u00a0 There are leading Muslim clerics who will say that the Koran is precise about the consequences of \u201cblasphemy\u201d which I suppose being Christian is.\u00a0 Whether or not this is true is not for me to decide as I have no basis in Islam, the Koran, or as a religious scholar of any sort.\u00a0 However, I do this to simply point out that people the world over feel a compelling need to manage what other people think and believe.\u00a0 We can take another example of China and the shutting down of Google months ago.\u00a0 (Google actually pulled out I think \u2013 but at any rate, the internet is government regulated)<\/p>\n
There are some organizations that are quite liberal with knowledge management.\u00a0 Many technology companies deploy blogs and wikis and actively encourage employees to write and participate.\u00a0 Many brick and mortar companies won\u2019t deploy enterprise social platforms because they are afraid of what might come out.\u00a0 Rather than encouraging the discourse (ALL of which will happen anyway), many of us have suppressed it based on a fear of \u201cbad behavior.\u201d<\/p>\n
The problem about this is not about trust.\u00a0 It\u2019s about generations.\u00a0 Unfortunately, many of us (I\u2019ll just draw a line at 35 years old and up), realize that large corporations have not been democratic societies.\u00a0 We work in states that are oligarchical at best.\u00a0 Even in companies where the corporate center does not have much power over divisions, the individual divisions can command the employees at will.\u00a0 Those in the workforce in their 20\u2019s have no acceptance of such a model.\u00a0 We\u2019ve always talked about them as being insistent on having access to decision-making, being vocal and contributory, and demanding the be part of the conversation in general.\u00a0 They have grown up in a world where technology has democratized the world, and it\u2019s their expectation that data and information is part of their realm.<\/p>\n
Evidence supports that actual instances of \u201cbad behavior\u201d are so low that it\u2019s really not worth being afraid of \u2013 and the community will generally self police itself.\u00a0 People realize for the most part that the conversations that happen in the workplace are different than the conversations that happen without \u2013 and the 5 horror stories you hear each year are insignificant compared to the potential for collaboration you have.\u00a0 We can\u2019t control the thinking.\u00a0 Nor can we control the content.<\/p>\n
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Between everything that has been going on in the Middle East and of course the earthquake in Japan, I think April will be a current events month.\u00a0 My thoughts and best wishes go out to all those throughout the world as they struggle in their various ordeals. \u00a0(written a while back obviously – sorry)<\/em><\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" On March 2, 2011, Pakistan\u2019s Minister for Minority Affairs, Shahbaz Bhatti was assassinated.\u00a0 Like others before him (including Benazir Bhutto), he was killed for standing up for the right of Pakistanian citizens to believe in whatever they wanted to believe.\u00a0…<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":1874,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"_coblocks_attr":"","_coblocks_dimensions":"","_coblocks_responsive_height":"","_coblocks_accordion_ie_support":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[37,45,28,10,47,8,2,44,13],"tags":[322,446,321,263,178],"class_list":["post-1873","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-change-management","category-collaboration","category-communications","category-engagement","category-governance","category-strategies","category-hr-technology","category-innovation","category-knowledge-management","tag-bad-behavior","tag-blogging","tag-knowledge-management-2","tag-millenials","tag-wikis"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=1873"}],"version-history":[{"count":2,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":1878,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/1873\/revisions\/1878"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/media\/1874"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=1873"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=1873"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/systematichr.com\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=1873"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}