Web 2.0 is about discussions. Enterprise 2.0 is about giving value to discussions. But people are paid to work and not to discuss, and when you say “discussion” you often the Taylor that sleeps into many manager’s mind.

Would it be possible to envisage that discussions can help people doing their job better ? Not at all. Everybody knows what he has to do. Once it’s completed, he hands over to someone else who does his job and so on, following a well defined process. Except “I’ve done my part, now it’s up to you” they have no reason to say anything else and any other discussion is a waste of time.

Sure ?

Last year, Louis Schweitzer opened the Pandora’s box, admitting that technical discussions were not enough, and than something more was needed.

Let me tell you something I saw a few years ago. Any similarity with existing people or scenes that take place in the office near yours is accidental, of course.

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