The interesting thing is that my company seems to encourage, if not reward the Fezi of the herd.

Our IT group is so compartmentalized and there is so little cross training allowed or encouraged that we have no choice but to become Fez. You find your niche, carve it out, and fight like hell to keep someone else in the group from replacing it. Technologies that are implemented by you only advance your piece of the pie, and no one else will even talk integration because they may have to actually show you something only they know how to do. We even have various levels of Fez. From the "i'll never tell you anything because that is my job and you don't need to be doing it" dictator unix SysAdmin to people like myself who have developed Fez-like work habits as a response to the environment.

My question is: How do we, the people who don't like being Fez, change our corporate landscape to stop this from happening? Do we get together and have an "intervention" with our management? Do we take our own time to cross train each other (those who want to) and try to break this system from the bottom up?