Thursday, June 19, 2008

Management Matters: Crossing Boundaries

By Adrian Wolfberg

The Defense Intelligence Agency's Knowledge Laboratory works to change behaviors from Cold War norms to those that foster agile networked collaboration and rapid integration of knowledge. It focuses on getting people to work together - sharing their research and analysis while it's in progress, not just when projects are finished. It also helps people overcome their tendency to hold on to information as if it belonged to them, since government cannot afford to behave this way anymore.

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