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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. In an organization focused on scalable efficiency, the focus of learning is on sharing explicit knowledge.

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How Women of Color Get to Senior Management

Harvard Business Review

Developing a diverse leadership pipeline can benefit companies in all sectors. To increase diversity at senior executive levels, more must be known about one group in particular: women of color in midlevel leadership, who successfully developed and progressed beyond individual contributor and first-line management.

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How to Successfully Work Across Countries, Languages, and Cultures

Harvard Business Review

This type of orientation can be incredibly valuable to cultivate for anyone working for multinationals or in other global careers, and can also be used by managers to develop employees. In his mind, both cleaning rituals demonstrated commitment and responsibility to a particular place. It consists of five key actions.

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Your Whole Company Needs to Be Distinctive, Not Just Your Product

Harvard Business Review

The heart of differentiation therefore is your company’s ability to develop and promote distinctive products, services, and branded experiences on a consistent basis. Our recommendations for accomplishing this start with the top team’s commitment, and expands to include people throughout the enterprise.

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Case Study: Will Our Chinese Partner Copy Our Technology?

Harvard Business Review

The only person not applauding was Wang Xiguo, the engineer who had led the development of Prime's power train technology. 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. The workers standing near him applauded.

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How Fear Helps (and Hurts) Entrepreneurs

Harvard Business Review

Some had established businesses, and others were in the early stages of developing their business. In contrast, when entrepreneurs worried about the potential of their idea or their personal ability to develop a successful venture, they tended to be affected more negatively and become less proactive.

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Even in a Digital World, Globalization Is Not Inevitable

Harvard Business Review

Especially given the fragmentation of the ”splinternet,” dramatized by the development of a distinct internet ecology in China, this is currently a matter of much concern. But developments such as robotics and 3-D printing might end up reducing rather than increasing trade levels, depending on how quickly their costs drop.