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Help Employees Create Knowledge — Not Just Share It

Harvard Business Review

Without diminishing the value of knowledge sharing, we would suggest that the most valuable form of learning today is actually creating new knowledge. In the process, they develop new knowledge about what works and what doesn’t work in specific situations. It typically can’t be written down and shared with others.

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How to Successfully Work Across Countries, Languages, and Cultures

Harvard Business Review

What’s more, the subsidiaries operated more or less autonomously, each with separate organizational cultures and norms. In his mind, both cleaning rituals demonstrated commitment and responsibility to a particular place. Interactions are also vital for sharing knowledge across sites.

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How Women of Color Get to Senior Management

Harvard Business Review

They were employed in midlevel to upper-midlevel management positions in strategy, finance, marketing, legal, operations, and technology functions. These situations involved complex assignments focusing on strategy, product development, business operations, and financial management. Too often, their ambitions are thwarted.

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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. Founders hold vast amounts of information in their heads, and when they hand over the reins, the new team can experience a knowledge gap. Minimize the handover period.

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Case Study: Will Our Chinese Partner Copy Our Technology?

Harvard Business Review

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. Lin could see that he was awed by the scale of the operation. In addition to being highly efficient, the prototype was a marvel of embedded tacit knowledge.