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  • Left, comparing in-house knowledge with knowledge that is distributed outside the company to an unspecified number of people, in-house knowledge is more valuable, fallacy.
    • Narrow vision and lack of relativization of viewpoints
    • It is funny that you compare internal “Knowledge that is not distributed to an unspecified number of people.” with external “knowledge that is distributed to an unspecified number of people.
  • Right, actually there are many more companies than the one you belong to.
    • Of course there is “unspecified knowledge that is not distributed to the general public” within those companies.
  • Bias to assume that what is not observable does not exist
  • I know this sounds obvious if you think about it for a minute, but there seems to be a disease that prevents us from understanding these obvious things.
  • I think it has been repeatedly referred to as a type of typical big business disease.

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