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Leading Thoughts for May 27, 2021

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Source: Harvard Business Review: How to Kill Creativity. People carry tacit knowledge. Tacit knowledge exists only in people’s heads. Find more ideas on the LeadingThoughts index. * * * Like us on Instagram and Facebook for additional leadership and personal development ideas.

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Help Employees Create Knowledge — Not Just Share It

Harvard Business Review

Many leaders see organizational learning simply as sharing existing knowledge. This isn’t surprising given that this is the primary focus of educational institutions, training programs, and leadership development courses. In an organization focused on scalable efficiency, the focus of learning is on sharing explicit knowledge.

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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 2 Posted by Ken Ball and Gina Gotsill on November 17, 2010 · 2 Comments Now that you’ve looked at your workforce (in The Boomers are Leaving! Keeping this a low priority could lead to a great deal of deep, tacit knowledge walking out the door, maybe for good.

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Are You Wasting Money On Useless Knowledge Management?

Harvard Business Review

In our simplified format, knowledge assets map along two dimensions. The first measures the degree to which knowledge is tacit and uncodified, versus explicit and codified. Over time, much of this tacit knowledge can be made more codified, and therefore more easily shared and understood by others. Figure 1: Map A.

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The MBA M-Prize's Winning Hack

Harvard Business Review

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. They therefore proposed a hackathon designed 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.