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Experiential Intelligence: What It Is and How to Grow It

Leading Blog

We create meaning or intelligence through a process that is based on three elements or building blocks: Mindsets: Your attitudes and beliefs about yourself, other people, and the world. Know-How: Your knowledge and skills. This includes both formal education and tacit knowledge that is learned through practice or performing.

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Help Employees Create Knowledge — Not Just Share It

Harvard Business Review

Many leaders see organizational learning simply as sharing existing knowledge. This isn’t surprising given that this is the primary focus of educational institutions, training programs, and leadership development courses. The iconic example is the process manual that all employees are expected to follow. Tim Evans for HBR.

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We Learn More When We Learn Together

Harvard Business Review

Create a lunchtime or after-hours working group with people from around your organization to watch educational talks or take an online course together. For example, to build capacities for managing stress, watch a series of TED Talks that inspire and educate on successful strategies for stress reduction.

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How Fear Helps (and Hurts) Entrepreneurs

Harvard Business Review

Intuition is a potent source of information, and research has demonstrated that among experts, tacit knowledge and gut instinct lead to rapid and effective decision-making. Actively seeking out flaws and weaknesses and doing something about them is a powerful means of reducing the fear of failure.

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With New York Schools Appointment, Bloomberg Did it His Way

Harvard Business Review

Black has no management experience in education — her entire career has been spent in magazine publishing — and her contact with the public school system in New York has been very limited. By definition, tacit knowledge comes with time — so outsiders must approach organizations with humility.