The Dark Side of Community

 We talk a lot about the benefits of community at work.

Communities of practice. Networks. Peer learning. Knowledge sharing.
Many of those conversations start with a pretty optimistic assumption:
People want to connect, participate, share, and help each other, and
usually they do.

But here's the thing I've learned from decades spent looking closely at communities:

Community isn't automatically a good thing.

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