Knowledge sharing to the extreme

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Recently I met the people and movement behind LinkyBrains and I have to say I feel very identified with what they say. After first weeks with LinkyBrains in my head some crazy or "LinkyBrainy" things have come to my mind and I would like to write down the first one (I hope not the last one).

I am a lover and a very active promoter of knowledge sharing both professionally and personally, I believe people sharing the knowledge contribute to continuous improve the world we live, it is a simple way to get more than one brain building solutions.

As part of my job I constantly think and apply exercises to get my team and myself sharing the knowledge, and we are getting good results in some the exercises we apply and not so good in others. If we would like to move the knowledge sharing to the next level, a possible a potential way would be sharing the knowledge between companies.

There are several ways this can be done, meetups run by different individuals working in different companies help to share the technologies used and how to apply them, but that's not really enough. If we could find a way where developers can work in a different office and see how others apply a technology to develop a solution. And it is not just technologies, it is about how to be organized, how other teams communicate, and so on.

Of course, there are some security and risks companies in the same sector sharing sensible information but it could be run by companies working in different sectors. I think it is time to remove all the barriers have been there such lot of years where software development companies don't talk and don't want to know about others.
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Leadership vs Leadersheep

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I wrote this article in a plane while traveling to UK, it took me few minutes to write the essential idea although I’ve been thinking on it for few weeks before I wrote done the lines below. I have to say when I read them again to publish in the blog the look like a draft but I want to publish them now and decorate the text in the future. In other words, take the lines below as notes for a draft but describing the essential.

There are a lot of books, articles, videos and tweets about Leadership where you can find lot of information and advices to improve your skills as a leader, but I have just found few of references to the people who makes a leader a much better leader, leader’s teams.

I have to say when I started professionally I expected my boss to give me all instructions to follow and all the details I need to complete my work, but I didn’t realise my boss and the rest of the team expected me to ask the right questions and add a value to the work done by the team.

With the years one of the biggest lessons I’ve learnt: collaboration and cooperation between leaders and teams make a better and faster success. It is not only about a great leader leading sheeps, it works but giving as a result an average success, it is about the balance of a great leader leading a great team, then the success will be brilliant.


A team following and accepting all instructions and details given by their leaders is an easy work for the leader and does not allow an environment for a continuous improvement. Otherwise, a team which is able to challenge their leaders and help to build an environment where collaboration is the key will help to grow both leaders and teams.

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