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Sharing Tacit Knowledge Is Key For Mentoring To Thrive

The Horizons Tracker

Einstein famously remarked that the most important part of teaching isn’t the imparting of facts and figures, but rather the tacit knowledge that is often key to truly mastering a topic. “Communicating codified knowledge is relatively straightforward,” the researchers explain. ” Effective mentoring. .

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

Harvard Business Review

To them, the unit of differentiation is an individual product, service or brand. The heart of differentiation therefore is your company’s ability to develop and promote distinctive products, services, and branded experiences on a consistent basis. This is a change from the differentiation strategies of the past.

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What Tesla Knows That Other Patent-Holders Don’t

Harvard Business Review

In fact, it reflects a keen understanding of both innovation and talent. Access to the patents doesn’t ensure that a competitor can execute on an equally innovative product. By giving away access to its patents it is offering competitors a leg up, but not fully ceding its lead in innovation.

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Algorithms Make Better Predictions — Except When They Don’t

Harvard Business Review

Further, algorithms cannot (yet, anyway) tap intuition — the soft factors that are not data inputs, the tacit knowledge that experienced managers deploy every day, nor the creative genius of innovators. Perilous, because bad data and hidden false assumptions can seriously mislead. So what should managers, especially leaders, do?

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Algorithms Make Better Predictions — Except When They Don’t

Harvard Business Review

Further, algorithms cannot (yet, anyway) tap intuition — the soft factors that are not data inputs, the tacit knowledge that experienced managers deploy every day, nor the creative genius of innovators. Perilous, because bad data and hidden false assumptions can seriously mislead.

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Structure Your Global Team for Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Many firms struggle to exploit the innovation potential of their global networks. But single-location projects draw on a reservoir or shared tacit knowledge and trust that global projects lack. To get the most from dispersed innovation, managers need a different playbook.

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Structure Your Global Team for Innovation

Harvard Business Review

Many firms struggle to exploit the innovation potential of their global networks. But single-location projects draw on a reservoir or shared tacit knowledge and trust that global projects lack. To get the most from dispersed innovation, managers need a different playbook.