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I am currently peripherally involved in a dispute that revolves around credit for information and ego management. I have to prepare to integrate two websites that have very similar, and often overlapping content all under a larger domain. The goal of these sites is dissemination of the information done by professionals to the end users as a resource. The hold up comes from the fact that it is not good practice, nor is it helpful to the viewer, to break up this information because of the authors when the end user should be able to go to one place and get all the information possible and not have to go to 2 or 3 different places to get the same information.
Now I do not blame these two individuals, both brilliant and passionate about their work, as it so happens they are more victims of a system that really only rewards individual success. But where they must worry about that part of their industry I am concerned only for the end user. I am not going to have someone email me thanks for posting this information allowing them to utilize it in a way that enriches their life, and neither do I care for it because that is not why I do it. However this raises a rather daunting issue.
How do you base rewards of teamwork and the end results of an operation, and still create the same individual growth that is often fostered by competition.
I am sure that this is a matter of balance but a difficult one nonetheless as I feel if an individual is never rewarded then there is the potential for losing some possibly great innovations due to lack of personal motivation. However, we can't let it become so central that all of a sudden the task is more about the tasker (I may have made that word up) than the actual results of the task itself.
I would suggest this, try to give kudos when possible but encourage and reward humility so that when the chips are down we can count on our professionals to do the right thing realizing that, that as "a rose by any other name would smell as sweet," successful results by any other person would still be just as valuable to the cause.
MT
Now I do not blame these two individuals, both brilliant and passionate about their work, as it so happens they are more victims of a system that really only rewards individual success. But where they must worry about that part of their industry I am concerned only for the end user. I am not going to have someone email me thanks for posting this information allowing them to utilize it in a way that enriches their life, and neither do I care for it because that is not why I do it. However this raises a rather daunting issue.
How do you base rewards of teamwork and the end results of an operation, and still create the same individual growth that is often fostered by competition.
I am sure that this is a matter of balance but a difficult one nonetheless as I feel if an individual is never rewarded then there is the potential for losing some possibly great innovations due to lack of personal motivation. However, we can't let it become so central that all of a sudden the task is more about the tasker (I may have made that word up) than the actual results of the task itself.
I would suggest this, try to give kudos when possible but encourage and reward humility so that when the chips are down we can count on our professionals to do the right thing realizing that, that as "a rose by any other name would smell as sweet," successful results by any other person would still be just as valuable to the cause.
MT
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