Prompt for this week

We've used the term opportunism, taking advantage of the a situation, and a different term, being a good citizen, doing the right thing even when there is a opportunity to do otherwise, as to different sorts of possible behavior at work (or at school).  In this post we want to talk about environments that promote one or the other.  And we will do so taking a bit of an interdisciplinary approach.  To get the requisite background, I'd like you to read these two recent pieces from the NY Times

How to Get the Rich to Share the Marbles
How Companies Learn Your Secrets

The first piece is about cooperative activity that subsequently promotes sharing.  The second is actually mainly about habits and habit formation.  I would like you to transfer the lessons from these pieces to your own work or school experience.  Can you give an example where cooperation has led to sharing?  Can you give a different example, where what might seem to some observers as opportunism was really the consequence of a bad habit?    Might there then be a solution in modifying the habit as in the second piece?