David Gurteen on Incentivizing Knowledge Management

[mattbm34]

firetangent - you design your km program so it gives people real benefits up-front so you don't need to bribe them with stuff!

[firetangent]

So if traditional incentives can have a negative impact, what's the workaround?

[dgurteen]

@firetangent I have replied to your question on my blog on my website. I can't reply here as I am limited to 500 characters and I cant give you a link to my reply as YouTube doesn't seem to allow it! The bottom line to my answer is "stop trying to do things to them and start working with them!"

best wishes David

[firetangent]

I Googled up the link to your blog that has the complete reply. What you're suggesting is clearly very logical, albeit not easy to do. I guess designing an incentive plan is easier to do than what you have suggested, and hence most companies go along with the incentives. Thanks for the reply.