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5 Steps To Develop A Learning Culture At Work

The Horizons Tracker

Develop and foster agile learners – Much has been written about the importance of being open to new thinking and adaptable to the changing environment, and Osborne believes that leaders need to cultivate such a mindset in employees if a learning culture is to be developed.

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The Boomers are Leaving! – How to Create and Implement a Knowledge.

Strategy Driven

– How to Create and Implement a Knowledge Transfer Program, part 1 Posted by Ken Ball and Gina Gotsill on November 10, 2010 · 2 Comments The clock is ticking: next year, in 2011, the oldest of the 76 million Baby Boomers turn 65. Will younger workers have the knowledge and skills to run our organizations when they do?

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Stop Obsessing Over Intellectual Property Rights

Harvard Business Review

Since knowledge assets do not each exist in isolation from one another, a powerful strategic opportunity lies in binding your tacit knowledge assets to your structured knowledge. Your ownership of the resulting unique knowledge network generates the rent.

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The Boomers are Leaving! – How to Create and Implement a Knowledge.

Strategy Driven

– How to Create and Implement a Knowledge Transfer Program, part 1 ), you’re ready to design and develop a program that retains Baby Boomers’ knowledge. But your program should do more than just capture and transfer valuable knowledge – it should also sow the seeds of a knowledge culture in the organization.

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The MBA M-Prize's Winning Hack

Harvard Business Review

The runners-up ideas were Organization Structure as Free Market , submitted by an IMD team, and Stopping Incremental Change and Fostering Bold Moves , from a LBS team.). Both Roth and Tandon had worked as management consultants before seeking their MBAs, and they understand that tacit knowledge is critical for professional service companies.

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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. 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.

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Your Whole Company Needs to Be Distinctive, Not Just Your Product

Harvard Business Review

The heart of differentiation therefore is your company’s ability to develop and promote distinctive products, services, and branded experiences on a consistent basis. Consider, for example, the way many credit cards are marketed. When Procter & Gamble purchased it in 1999 for $2.3 But it didn’t quite work out that way.

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