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Help Employees Create Knowledge — Not Just Share It

Harvard Business Review

This view of learning was the key driver of “knowledge management systems” that came into vogue in the 1990’s. We believe the old, “scalable efficiency” approach to knowledge needs to be replaced with a new, more nimble kind of “scalable learning.”

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How Women of Color Get to Senior Management

Harvard Business Review

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. How did (or didn’t) managers play a role? They pursue management challenges.

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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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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. In the process of shaping the management team and company, a common challenge is that one or more of the company’s top-notch personalities are impeding growth.

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Case Study: Will Our Chinese Partner Copy Our Technology?

Harvard Business Review

Lin Dachun, the VP and general manager of the automobile electronics unit, cheered. 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. Yes, the Blue Sky managers said. One person wasn't smiling.

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How Fear Helps (and Hurts) Entrepreneurs

Harvard Business Review

Another outcome we heard: a tendency to escalate commitment to specific goals at the expense of other activities, and sometimes in the face of evidence that a particular path was doomed. So while fear is a natural state for an entrepreneur, the ability to anticipate and manage it is a vital skill.

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With New York Schools Appointment, Bloomberg Did it His Way

Harvard Business Review

Black has no management experience in education — her entire career has been spent in magazine publishing — and her contact with the public school system in New York has been very limited. The contretemps over this appointment brings to mind three classic management issues, and research about them that is too often ignored.