Sharing Information is POWER!

"Information's only valuable if you give it to people with the ability to do something with it." ~ General Stanley McChrystal

In this TED Talks video, Retired General Stanley McChrystal shares his experience with the culture shift from hiding information to sharing information.



Video Takeaways

• Follow your instincts. Go with your gut and what you've learned.
• Change your culture from "who needs to know" to "who doesn't know, and we need to tell and tell them as quickly as we can."
• Create situation awareness rooms.
• Information gets leaked out, and you aren't going to like it.
• We are better off if we share information than if we hold it back.

Wildland Fire Leadership Challenge

Discuss with your teams how you can change your culture to share information. Identify your plan to share information.