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Leading Thoughts for May 27, 2021

Leading Blog

Managers who do not allow time for exploration or do not schedule in incubation periods are unwittingly standing in the way of the creative process.”. People carry tacit knowledge. Tacit knowledge exists only in people’s heads. Source: Harvard Business Review: How to Kill Creativity.

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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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When Boomerang Employees Work

The Horizons Tracker

They are effective both because they’re familiar with the people and processes of the organization, so can get up to speed faster than a completely new hire, but have also gained some often invaluable experience and contacts in another organization. Boomerang employees have long been regarded highly in the workplace.

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Is Business Travel Key To Economic Growth?

The Horizons Tracker

The researchers hypothesize that the transfer of tacit knowledge and know how is crucial to economic growth, and business travel plays a key part in that process of repetition, imitation, and feedback.

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The Future Of Business Travel

The Horizons Tracker

The research shows that tacit knowledge is crucial to economic growth, and this is being undermined by virtual communication. A second study , from Harvard’s Growth Lab, also underlined the vital role business travel plays in the economy.

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Help Employees Create Knowledge — Not Just Share It

Harvard Business Review

In the process, they develop new knowledge about what works and what doesn’t work in specific situations. We believe the old, “scalable efficiency” approach to knowledge needs to be replaced with a new, more nimble kind of “scalable learning.” Individuals versus workgroups and networks.

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Antibodies: Individual Stars Can Destroy Culture

N2Growth Blog

In this light, a lone-wolf genius, who doesn’t play well with others, can be counterproductive to our entire drug discovery process. After all, the tacit knowledge in a scientist’s head, at some elite university, could be the missing link in a promising new, multi-billion-dollar compound that could help Genentech save millions of lives.