Human resource management

Rehiring Retirees as Consultants Is Bad Business

You’re paying experts to hoard their knowledge; they should be passing it on instead.

by

Dorothy Leonard and Steven Labate

by

Dorothy Leonard and Steven Labate

March 29, 2013

Why would any organization set up a system that discourages experts from sharing their business-critical knowledge?

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Dorothy Leonard is the William J. Abernathy Professor of Business Administration, Emerita, at Harvard Business School and a coauthor of Deep Smarts (Harvard Business School Press, 2005). Steven Labate is Manager of Compensation and Leadership Development at GE Global Research Center.

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