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"Mais, peut-on vouloir créer et gérer l’intelligence collective si on a peur de produire du désordre, de l’anarchie ? Depuis 10 ans que je travaille sur le sujet, j’ai toujours considéré que le simple fait de poser cette question était une forme de résistance au changement et que répondre à cette question était une perte de temps. Je pense aujourd’hui que je me suis trompé et, par ce billet, je vais donc réparer mon erreur."

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What really disturbs surviving employees about downsizings is that they cannot control or rationalize the events. If I have a co-worker who frequently arrives late and does low quality work, I can rationalize her layoff by saying to myself, “She didn’t carry her weight and deserved to be let go.” If, instead, my co-worker seems to work as hard and as well as I do and then, through no fault of her own, happens to be the victim of a “reduction in force,” I cannot rationalize that. More important, I fear that I cannot control my situation: in the first scenario, I have a sense of control over my fate by continuing to do high-quality work. In the second scenario, working hard or working well doesn’t seem to help me retain my job.

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The reality is the tools need selling their use, value derived from them, the conceptual models around what they do, and easing fears. Adoption rates grow far beyond the teen percentages in organizations that take time guiding people about the use of the tools and services. Those organizations that take the opportunity to continually sell the value and use for these tools they have in place get much higher adoption and continued engagement with the tools than those who do nothing an

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