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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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What Tesla Knows That Other Patent-Holders Don’t

Harvard Business Review

There’s a lot of thinking in the research these days on the gap between the codified knowledge that is patentable and gets disclosed versus tacit knowledge that really exists in how you actually produce,” says Orly Lobel, a law professor at the University of San Diego specializing in intellectual property.

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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. And yet black women’s advancement into leadership roles has remained stagnant , even as the number of them in professional and managerial roles has increased. How People Get Ahead. They pursue management challenges.

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How to Bring in a New CEO for Your Startup

Harvard Business Review

Most startup founders are deeply committed to the companies they have launched and heavily invested in the dream of leading the company to long-term business success. They have an even harder time admitting that the answer might be new leadership. Resistance to change must be overcome. Minimize the handover period.

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With New York Schools Appointment, Bloomberg Did it His Way

Harvard Business Review

Cathleen Black's appointment raises, first, the perennial question: Is leadership a highly contextual capability? The other challenge is the amount of tacit knowledge involved in improving the performance of large systems — insight and understanding not easily captured or conveyed by numbers, formulas, or recipes.