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Help Employees Create Knowledge — Not Just Share It

Harvard Business Review

We believe the old, “scalable efficiency” approach to knowledge needs to be replaced with a new, more nimble kind of “scalable learning.” ” To foster the latter, managers should understand five essential distinctions: Explicit versus tacit knowledge. Individuals versus workgroups and networks.

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The Boomers are Leaving! – How to Create and Implement a Knowledge.

Strategy Driven

Despite the media coverage of Boomers and how a tidal wave of retirements could impact business, many senior managers are kicking the can down the road, putting off the job of creating a system and process for capturing knowledge. Manager can avoid this by taking some steps now to prepare for the day when key workers leave.

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How Women of Color Get to Senior Management

Harvard Business Review

Developing a diverse leadership pipeline can benefit companies in all sectors. Firms with the most ethnically diverse executive teams were 33% more likely to outperform their peers on profitability, and those with executive-level gender diversity worldwide had a 21% likelihood of outperforming their industry competitors.

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The Boomers are Leaving! – How to Create and Implement a Knowledge.

Strategy Driven

Despite the media coverage of Boomers and how a tidal wave of retirements could impact business, many senior managers are kicking the can down the road, putting off the job of creating a system and process for capturing knowledge. Manager can avoid this by taking some steps now to prepare for the day when key workers leave.

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How to Successfully Work Across Countries, Languages, and Cultures

Harvard Business Review

They hailed from countries as diverse as Brazil, France, Germany, Indonesia, Taiwan, and Thailand, and all demonstrated the characteristics of what I call global work orientation. Interactions are also vital for sharing knowledge across sites. Positive indifference is important for two reasons.