« Knowledge maps to visualise knowledge traces | Main | Invisible effects of blogging »

March 20, 2004

Social animals

Knowledge animals may seem anti-social. We are not. Knowledge animals are programmed to seek company of others. Let me explain why I think so.

The selfishness and proud of knowledge animals do not prevent them from socialising. The care for off-spring, drive for survival can explain quite well why people are actually social animals. Like animals lived in groups and cooperated to protect their members to predators, people and their organisations —through cooperation— develop a competitive edge against other people and organisations. Socializing, being in (virtual) neighborhood of one another eases cooperation and is therefore beneficial for survival.

So we, knowledge animals are actually programmed to seek company of colleagues, friends, peers. Let's have a drink toghether ;-)

TrackBack

TrackBack URL for this entry:
http://www.typepad.com/services/trackback/6a00d83420bce653ef00d8351ba7d453ef

Listed below are links to weblogs that reference Social animals:

Comments

Verify your Comment

Previewing your Comment

This is only a preview. Your comment has not yet been posted.

Working...
Your comment could not be posted. Error type:
Your comment has been posted. Post another comment

The letters and numbers you entered did not match the image. Please try again.

As a final step before posting your comment, enter the letters and numbers you see in the image below. This prevents automated programs from posting comments.

Having trouble reading this image? View an alternate.

Working...

Post a comment

April 2004

Sun Mon Tue Wed Thu Fri Sat
        1 2 3
4 5 6 7 8 9 10
11 12 13 14 15 16 17
18 19 20 21 22 23 24
25 26 27 28 29 30  

About this log

Colleague bloggers

Books I read

  • Barry Oshry: The Possibilities of Organization

    Barry Oshry: The Possibilities of Organization
    Brilliant how just pictures describe (mis)communication in organisations.

  • Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience

    Mihaly Csikszentmihalyi: Flow: The Psychology of Optimal Experience
    It reads like a small snack, still it is quite nutritious. Love it. Among many other things, the author makes happiness or flow researcheable. Flow is measured as a state where you use your skills above average and where you are challenged above average. An interesting finding is that people report such a flow state more often during work than during leisure time (while they report to rather spend more time at leisure than at work). It is interesting to find out how to optimise flow in knowledge work.