Communities exchange to learn, workgroups exchange to execute
Communities are places where practices, knowledge, information are exchanged and has not to be confused with workgroups which are operational entities…
Groups know that they have to do, to deliver, and that’s why they exist. Groups exist because they have operational purposes.
Communities exchange to learn, groups exchange to execute (even if there a learning dimension in the background routine).
The group is a manager’s reponsibility, the manager being responsible for objective’s achievement. Communties can be handled by external people who is an expert, a skilled communicator while groups only react to hierarchical hierarchy (even if expertise matters in the background).
- Bertrand Duperrin
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(Source: duperrin.com)
