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Stop Obsessing Over Intellectual Property Rights

Harvard Business Review

Since knowledge assets do not each exist in isolation from one another, a powerful strategic opportunity lies in binding your tacit knowledge assets to your structured knowledge. Your ownership of the resulting unique knowledge network generates the rent.

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How to Successfully Work Across Countries, Languages, and Cultures

Harvard Business Review

According to a recent McKinsey Global Institute report , the number of people in the global labor force will reach 3.5 Interactions are also vital for sharing knowledge across sites. Photo by Christine Roy. billion by 2030 — and yet there will still be a shortage of skilled workers.

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Getting Smarter about Google's "Brain Drain"

Harvard Business Review

He took aim at a high-profile target, a book by three McKinsey & Company consultants called The War for Talent. Here's what Gladwell argued: "The broader failing of McKinsey and its acolytes at Enron is their assumption that an organization's intelligence is simply a function of the intelligence of its employees.

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Even in a Digital World, Globalization Is Not Inevitable

Harvard Business Review

While McKinsey’s latest report on digital globalization mentions at least six times that international data flows grew 45fold since 2005, domestic data flows also expanded greatly over the same period. Some kinds of know-how, for example, are generally regarded as undigitizable.