4. Sharing experience is not synonymous with encroaching on the skills of others

One of the strengths of creative companies is the ability to get people with different, complementary and specialized skills to work together. The high level of expertise in each field enables new products and processes to be developed more rapidly. Nevertheless, one of the managerial challenges facing these companies is to ensure that these experts can communicate with each other, understand each other and perform at their best. In other words, to have a common base of skills and experience. Sharing knowledge is therefore both necessary and essential to achieve perfect emulation.

We often wrongly assume that passing on our experience or skills to colleagues is a threat to our own position, as it means we're no longer indispensable. This reasoning is a miscalculation. On an individual level, this reasoning may be reassuring, but on a team level it is counter-productive,...