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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. What are your employees’ retirement plans? These steps are outlined in Surviving the Baby Boomer Exodus.

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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. clients.

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Are You Wasting Money On Useless Knowledge Management?

Harvard Business Review

In our simplified format, knowledge assets map along two dimensions. The first measures the degree to which knowledge is tacit and uncodified, versus explicit and codified. Over time, much of this tacit knowledge can be made more codified, and therefore more easily shared and understood by others.

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How Women of Color Get to Senior Management

Harvard Business Review

.” Another VP shared taking on a new and unfamiliar experience of leading an entire financial team, bringing in new leaders, and outlining a plan to grow the organization. They cultivate influential mentors. These type of disparities often shut women of color out of the critical business experiences they need to advance in leadership.

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Facebook Changes Upend Advertiser and Agency Models

Harvard Business Review

Even when optimizing to a transaction, they do so with tacit knowledge of what each transaction is worth. This requires complicated planning, strategy, and execution across disciplines that are not in the wheelhouse of traditional media buying agencies — or in the wheelhouse of many agencies for that matter.

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How to Bring in a New CEO for Your Startup

Harvard Business Review

Once the decision is made to hire a new CEO, the founder-CEO and board should work together, ideally over a six-month period, to strategically plan the transition. But how can founders handle that transition? Minimize the handover period. The ideal handover period should be approximately two weeks.

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Case Study: Will Our Chinese Partner Copy Our Technology?

Harvard Business Review

Did it plan to use Prime as a stepping-stone to becoming a vertically integrated manufacturer of hybrid power trains in its own right? For another, Prime had embedded a great deal of "tacit knowledge" into some of the components — knowledge that was more "know why" than pure know-how.