My daughter has expressed interest in being helpful around the house. I welcome this (of course!) but find it takes more effort to demonstrate and explain how to do something than actually doing it myself. I realize, though, that it is worth the investment, both for her sense of purpose and for my selfish long-term goals. So, I now have a four year old in charge of electricity (basically entails making sure all the lights are off in the house before we leave).

Think how frustrating it must be to believe someone in your organization has previously traveled down a pathway of searching for information that you are on today.  They possibly did a lot of research on the topic.  Perhaps they even wrote a white paper or report about it for someone else in the organization.

But you don’t have access to it.

You are among those on the outside of the “need to know” group.