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Research has shown that helping others and demonstrating our skills and expertise is motivating and generates satisfaction. This, however, can be different in large organizations where many employees use their knowledge as an insurance for keeping their positions: Keeping all their wisdom to themselves “guarantees” them their employment.

Having a knowledge hoarding culture within an institution, does not only slower processes and lowers efficiency, which of course generates higher costs, but also damages innovation.

So how can we create the right climate to avoid these situations and encourage the entire organization to share knowledge and expertise? 

After discussing with different institutions, there are 2 key factors to consider. First, experts within a company should be regarded as such and have a moral and a formal incentive in their performances to share what they know and train new members when they join. New members are still “not infected” by the standard processes and formalities of the organization, hence, they are the ones who can rapidily bring innovation and new ideas into a business. Second, knowledge sharing should be as simple and smooth as possible and not a hurdle. To achieve this, the right technology needs to be in place. This technology should have the standards of social media conventions that have become popular in the last years and that we are familiar with. The content should be as vivid and human as possible, hence, incorporating video and Q&As for the interaction between participants.

This is exactly where brainpickin comes into the scene, offering a simple and interactive solution to improve and motivate knowledge transfer.

By switching from a knowledge hoarding culture to a knowledge sharing culture, the benefit of the organization is substantial. This change can be easily done by focusing on those 2 key factors: Implement a framework for the modification of the behaviors and a simple inexpensive resolution of the technical needs.

If you have any questions, comments or specific requests, you can reach us on Facebook, Twitter (@brainpickincom), or you can drop us an email through our contact page.

We always listen to you, dear customer, and take your feedback and requests very seriously. We want to show you that we are a young and dynamic business willing to satisfy you, and able to execute your needs fast and efficiently. 

This time we are excited to introduce Single-Sign-On (SSO). SSO is a property of access control of multiple related, but independent software systems. With this property a user logs in once and gains access to all systems without being prompted to log in again at each of them.

What does it exactly mean? SSO allows your users to learn from your online academy powered by brainpickin without the necessity of creating a new account in brainpickin or even login in, if they are already logged in in your system.

Imagine replacing all the keys by one master key that opens all the doors to your services and makes the life of your users much easier.

The main benefits of using SSO are: (i) reducing password fatigue from different user name and password combinations, (ii) reducing time spent re-entering passwords for the same identity, and (iii) allowing your users a natural flow from your main site to your online academy and vice-versa.

If you have any questions, comments or specific requests, you can reach us on Facebook, Twitter (@brainpickincom), or you can drop us an email through our contact page.

Starting a new venture is full of excitement and passion for that new idea. It requires risk takers willing to execute that vision, entrepreneurs that can act in a timely manner and are determined to do anything to see the project realized.

There are several characteristics that a team of entrepreneurs should have if they want to see success at some point; for example, discipline, social skills and speed to act (check out Tanya Prive’s article on Forbes for more characteristics).

One characteristic that is often not mentioned and that can be observed in all successfull ventures is the ability to pivot - the ability to recognize the need of a change from the original idea, interiorize that change, adapt the vision and execute.

All big startups that we know today went through that process: Yelp started as an automated system for emailing recommendation requests to friends until they became the “Friendster Yellow Pages”, Instagram was a location-based social network called Burbn that switched into an iPhone app focused solely on photo-sharing, and even Youtube started as a video dating site called “Tune In Hook Up”.

It is true that the human being is very adaptable and can get used to any situation and circumstance, but not everyone has the ability to shift from an idea that they were passionate about to execute something else.