While preparing my talk on the "Share Economy" for the NEXT09 conference in Hamburg on May 5-6, I came across this great quote from Gary Hamel ("The Future of Management"), in his article "The Facebook Generation vs. the Fortune 500":
"Power comes from sharing information, not hoarding it. The Web is also a gift economy. To gain influence and status, you have to give away your expertise and content. And you must do it quickly; if you don’t, someone else will beat you to the punch—and garner the credit that might have been yours. Online, there are a lot of incentives to share, and few incentives to hoard."
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