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Help Employees Create Knowledge — Not Just Share It

Harvard Business Review

This view of learning was the key driver of “knowledge management systems” that came into vogue in the 1990’s. Without diminishing the value of knowledge sharing, we would suggest that the most valuable form of learning today is actually creating new knowledge. Individuals versus workgroups and networks.

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How Women of Color Get to Senior Management

Harvard Business Review

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. How did (or didn’t) managers play a role? They pursue management challenges.

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

Strategy Driven

But when they do leave, they will take with them years of institutional knowledge acquired on the job. 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 to Successfully Work Across Countries, Languages, and Cultures

Harvard Business Review

What’s more, the subsidiaries operated more or less autonomously, each with separate organizational cultures and norms. This type of orientation can be incredibly valuable to cultivate for anyone working for multinationals or in other global careers, and can also be used by managers to develop employees.

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Facebook Changes Upend Advertiser and Agency Models

Harvard Business Review

Publishers have traditionally sold those "things" to them in an environment that operates with fairly little friction. Even when optimizing to a transaction, they do so with tacit knowledge of what each transaction is worth. These are "things" that display once, and then disappear, unless more of them are bought.

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How to Bring in a New CEO for Your Startup

Harvard Business Review

The following steps can be used to successfully manage the transition to new leadership: Determine the strategy for the startup and identify CEO candidates’ experience executing a similar strategy. As the company grows, its management skills need to evolve. Ensure knowledge capture and transfer. Break away from the past.

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How Corporate HQ Can Get More from Innovation Outposts

Harvard Business Review

So, even if the outposts manage to absorb local value they usually fail to propagate it back to the organization, which means they fail on the ultimate reason for their existence. Most of the absorbed knowledge — local contacts and relationships, intelligence, insights, and so on — left with them.