Comments on: How to capture good ideas every time http://anthillonline.com/how-to-capture-good-ideas-every-time/ Business help for entrepreneurs, startups and small business owners in Australia | Business > Innovation > Technology > Entrepreneurship - Anthill Magazine: It's Where Ideas and Business Meet. Fri, 10 Feb 2012 14:06:00 +0000 hourly 1 http://wordpress.org/?v=3.1.1 By: Bree http://anthillonline.com/how-to-capture-good-ideas-every-time/#comment-20816 Bree Mon, 23 Nov 2009 05:06:42 +0000 http://anthillonline.com/?p=20862#comment-20816 Unfortunately there is still that hazy line between sharing tacit knowledge versus over sharing to the point where people think you are redundant and make you that way. My last job I went into as SOLE IT support employee of a national company. I realised this was stressful to myself, was counter productive for employees who wastes time contacting/waiting for me, hence cost the company money (as I was on call 24/7 as well). I then went about helping people within the company trouble shoot their own issues on a basic level, how to restart servers/routers, how to install printers, how to scan things, how to check if the internet is down with Telstra, even so far as to how to resize images. Yeah great...I was then made redundant because I worked myself out of a job according to the company I was "too efficient and quick to teach others" (true words! I was told I'd worked myself OUT of being useful). I was penalised for empowering employers, ruducing my own stress and saving the business money. So I am personally a little fickle about sharing too much information sometimes. You don't get rewarded for doing so. Unfortunately there is still that hazy line between sharing tacit knowledge versus over sharing to the point where people think you are redundant and make you that way.

My last job I went into as SOLE IT support employee of a national company. I realised this was stressful to myself, was counter productive for employees who wastes time contacting/waiting for me, hence cost the company money (as I was on call 24/7 as well).

I then went about helping people within the company trouble shoot their own issues on a basic level, how to restart servers/routers, how to install printers, how to scan things, how to check if the internet is down with Telstra, even so far as to how to resize images.

Yeah great…I was then made redundant because I worked myself out of a job according to the company I was “too efficient and quick to teach others” (true words! I was told I’d worked myself OUT of being useful). I was penalised for empowering employers, ruducing my own stress and saving the business money.

So I am personally a little fickle about sharing too much information sometimes. You don’t get rewarded for doing so.

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