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

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– How to Create and Implement a Knowledge Transfer Program, part 1 Posted by Ken Ball and Gina Gotsill on November 10, 2010 · 2 Comments The clock is ticking: next year, in 2011, the oldest of the 76 million Baby Boomers turn 65. He has a marketing communications degree from Bradley University. Who will do this work?

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How Women of Color Get to Senior Management

Harvard Business Review

They were employed in midlevel to upper-midlevel management positions in strategy, finance, marketing, legal, operations, and technology functions. These situations involved complex assignments focusing on strategy, product development, business operations, and financial management.

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How to Bring in a New CEO for Your Startup

Harvard Business Review

A smart founder understands that there is often a trade-off between creating sustainable market value and preserving control. Founders hold vast amounts of information in their heads, and when they hand over the reins, the new team can experience a knowledge gap. Knowledge capture and transfer will assist in a smooth transition.

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How to Successfully Work Across Countries, Languages, and Cultures

Harvard Business Review

What’s more, the subsidiaries operated more or less autonomously, each with separate organizational cultures and norms. Interactions are also vital for sharing knowledge across sites. In some sectors, the global market demands for English-speaking workers makes a global career quite attractive. Aspiring to a global career.

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How Corporate HQ Can Get More from Innovation Outposts

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Most of the absorbed knowledge — local contacts and relationships, intelligence, insights, and so on — left with them. The company no longer has any operations at all in Silicon Valley. As an analogy, think of sales and marketing and the rise of CRM. Propagate intelligence and insights.

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We Learn More When We Learn Together

Harvard Business Review

At workforce solutions firm Kelly Services, two operational leaders saw a need to increase the leadership pipeline and employee engagement through strengthening network connections. In addition, they wanted to improve business acumen and understanding of the business among all leaders.

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Case Study: Will Our Chinese Partner Copy Our Technology?

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At last," the chairman had said, "we have a foothold in the electric vehicle market. It was among the fastest-growing Chinese automakers, and it was racing to get into the hybrid market. Worse, could it end up selling those components on the open market? Lin could see that he was awed by the scale of the operation.