Great story - and one that not too many can tell. The sociology of inner company networks and the uncontrollable, unforeseeable effects these can have provides a lot of room for examination, And now I wonder if these "splinter the groups" effect is still valid, I suspect that today's network-aware workers are both more capable of 1. entertaining a lot of parallel sub-group engagements and 2. building up their own little and dispersed network of soon-to-be-deserters. Hence the real value of E2.0 may lie in allowing and leveraging these social networks for some nice effects (see http://www.frogpond.de/index...)? - Martin Koser