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Antibodies: Individual Stars Can Destroy Culture

N2Growth Blog

After all, the tacit knowledge in a scientist’s head, at some elite university, could be the missing link in a promising new, multi-billion-dollar compound that could help Genentech save millions of lives. With the Genentech example in mind, we are coining the term ‘anti-bodies.’

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

Strategy Driven

While that has long been considered traditional retirement age, Boomers are known for bucking the system. Despite the media coverage of Boomers and how a tidal wave of retirements could impact business, many senior managers are kicking the can down the road, putting off the job of creating a system and process for capturing knowledge.

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How Women of Color Get to Senior Management

Harvard Business Review

This aspiration served as a motivator for them in making trade-offs to progress into top leadership, which could include anything from making a lateral move to changing companies to working long hours. Others wanted power in order to bring out the best in their teams and foster an inclusive culture. Too often, their ambitions are thwarted.

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How to Bring in a New CEO for Your Startup

Harvard Business Review

Most startup founders are deeply committed to the companies they have launched and heavily invested in the dream of leading the company to long-term business success. Entrepreneurship for the Long Term. Insight Center. Sponsored by Northern Trust. Set your company up for success. Resistance to change must be overcome.

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Facebook Changes Upend Advertiser and Agency Models

Harvard Business Review

Even when optimizing to a transaction, they do so with tacit knowledge of what each transaction is worth. Find each and every way to ensure that as many of the right people have those experiences as possible, so they can efficiently affect their short- and long-term business goals.

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How to Successfully Work Across Countries, Languages, and Cultures

Harvard Business Review

Organizational identification , the term for when an individual feels at one with the organization, is crucial for fostering job satisfaction, commitment, and performance. Interactions are also vital for sharing knowledge across sites. Identifying with the global organization rather than your local office.

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Engage Your Long-Time Employees to Improve Performance

Harvard Business Review

In today’s knowledge-based economy, companies and products are intricately specialized and experience counts for a lot. This sort of in-depth knowledge is immensely useful to employers, but prospective employees can’t obtain it in business school or replicate it by working in a similar company or role.