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Stop Trying to Control How Ex-Employees Use Their Knowledge

Harvard Business Review

Although it might seem that greater control and stronger enforcement are beneficial—it is important for firms to protect key trade secrets, after all—the evidence shows that these changes critically undermine employee incentives to learn and innovate. They invest less in acquiring knowledge, reducing their skills and innovativeness.

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Make Your Knowledge Workers More Productive

Harvard Business Review

Yet here is the challenge you face as a senior executive: You cannot manage your knowledge workers in the traditional and intrusive way you might have done with manual workers. Knowledge workers own the means of production — their brains. Knowledge management Managing people Productivity'

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Research: Why Best Practices Don’t Translate Across Cultures

Harvard Business Review

offices where employees were entrepreneurial, engaged, excited to come to work, and as a result were quickly developing new ideas for customer-facing products. developed practices of rapid development cycles , user-centered design , and collaboration in an open office layout. Leaders from the U.S. In the U.S., In the U.S.,

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Develop Deep Knowledge in Your Organization — and Keep It

Harvard Business Review

The best leaders understand that the current success of their business, and any future innovation, depends upon the “deep smarts” of their employees — the business-critical, experience-based knowledge that employees carry with them. Take architectural and engineering firm EYP as an example. Insight Center.