Andrew Rondeau
Andrew is the owner of this website and has been a Leader, Manager, Coach and Consultant for the last twenty-five years.
Successful Managers Share Information!
- By Andrew Rondeau
- Published 11/30/2007
We can share lots of different things
with others, such as material things, money and time, but one of the easiest
and most useful things we can share are thoughts and ideas. We tend to look at sharing something with
someone else as parting with it or losing it, for instance sharing sweets, but
with thoughts and ideas you are not losing them or gaining any less by sharing. In fact quite the opposite, because now the other
people with whom you have shared the information can benefit from having it
too.
However, it is sometimes human nature
for us to keep things to ourselves, to give us what we believe to be a good
advantage over others. This can
sometimes be a smart thing to do, giving us the edge, however nowadays with the
internet at our disposal, there is rarely any piece of information we can
possess which will truly give us that advantage. The combination of ideas and concepts not
thought of by others, is what can make us truly successful, so therefore
sharing thoughts and ideas with others is what is most advantageous.
Discussions with others and sharing of
ideas and concepts is critical in the formation of new ones, so it is important
to point out that by doing this, there is a risk of someone taking your ideas
for themselves. Therefore, a good plan
is to keep back some details critical to making the idea work, but give enough
information out to paint the big picture to others.
Each of our brain references are unique
as they are based upon our own knowledge, experience and backgrounds and so
therefore everyone will interpret ideas or speeches in different ways unique to
them. Therefore by sharing your ideas
with others, different thoughts and ideas will be formed that you won’t have
thought of. Sometimes you aren’t aware
of the ideas being formed through sharing and you’ll think it was something you
thought of yourself, when in fact it was formed by someone else planting the
seed there.
Another thing you have to remember when
sharing ideas is, that the person you are sharing your ideas with at that time,
is not always going to share their ideas back with you. However in most cases people do out of human
nature, but not necessarily at that time.
It could be a few months down the line.
What they share with you may be of no use at that particular time, or
never, but it will be stored in your reference memory and may be of use further
down the line, or as a part of a combination of ideas shared with you by others. If you don’t share with others, you may never
receive that one idea you need, to bring to life your big concept. That is a high price to pay, as you could miss
out on that one fantastic opportunity you need to become great!
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