Comms doesn't matter...

Picture the scene... me smiling broadly because I have just received a fab template for something or other from one of our 'let's all share' internal communication community:

Sulky marketing manager: "We never get any freebies from our marketing oppos... s'not fair."

Passing sales manager: "That's because marketing stuff counts towards the bottom line. Her stuff doesn't. That's why she's allowed to share it.  If was worth anything commercially the top guys would string her up."

Smug marketing manager now smirks, sales manager swans off and I do fair impression of goldfish out of water... on a hot day... in a desert.