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What U2 and the US Navy Have in Common: Connecting with Core Employees

Michael Lee Stallard

Leaders build the Vision bridge by developing and communicating a mission, set of values, and reputation that connect with employees. Leaders build the Voice bridge by developing processes and practices that keep employees “in the loop” and give them regular opportunities to express their views. Connecting the U.S.

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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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Olympic Host Cities Need Transparency, Not Knowledge Transfer

Harvard Business Review

Certainly, knowledge transfer has been a priority of the International Olympic Committee (IOC). Particularly in the last 12 years since the Sydney Games, it has put extensive effort into developing a Knowledge Management Program. Difficulty of getting the whole story. Contractual commitment.

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Look Beyond Your "Social Media Presence"

Harvard Business Review

It's in areas of the company such as knowledge management, innovation, communication, and better integration with the supply chain. Consider Microsoft's Channel 9 software-community platform, where developers can watch videos and comment on them. Daily usage must be continuously stimulated and reinforced.

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Social Capital Is as Important as Financial Capital in Health Care

Harvard Business Review

The paper draws on the broad social capital literature and the toolkit for building social capital developed by Harvard’s Kennedy School of Government. Our full article describing social capital, its roles in health care, and strategies for building it in health care organizations is available here (PDF).

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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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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'