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Intellectual Generosity: Why Sharing Ideas Creates More Value Than Protecting Them

Giving away your best thinking generates unexpected returns. Your best ideas create more value when shared freely rather than guarded jealously.

Sharing your ideas returns in greater value than holding on to them.

Our tendency to over protect ideas hinders innovation

Many brilliant new ideas seemingly appear from outer-space. Some call them Aha! Moments, Epiphanies, and Flashes of Insight. Writer Steven Johnson disagrees and instead believes that the right conditions and collaborations are the spark for these new ideas. While collaborations produce the right cir

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