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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. It’s a notion that new research from the Kellogg School of Management shows is also key to successful mentoring.

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Leading Thoughts for May 27, 2021

Leading Blog

Managers who do not allow time for exploration or do not schedule in incubation periods are unwittingly standing in the way of the creative process.”. People carry tacit knowledge. Tacit knowledge exists only in people’s heads. Moreover, creativity often takes time.

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When Boomerang Employees Work

The Horizons Tracker

Boomerangs were especially effective in jobs that required a high level of administrative coordination, such as project management, and in jobs where strong interpersonal skills were required. This tacit knowledge helps them to understand how the organization functions and the key relationships required to get things done.

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How Movement Between Plants Can Spark Innovation

The Horizons Tracker

Gaining a fresh perspective on things is often at the heart of innovation as it allows us to apply our existing knowledge in new circumstances. New research from the Rotterdam School of Management, Erasmus University (RSM) highlights that we can get a similar boost just by moving employees between company sites. Generating ideas.

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5 Steps To Develop A Learning Culture At Work

The Horizons Tracker

This can be achieved by the provision of bite-sized learning, whether via tuition, mentoring, or learning from our peers in the kind of tacit knowledge exchange that has been the bedrock of knowledge management for decades.

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Gary Klein: An interview by Bob Morris

First Friday Book Synopsis

He also developed methods of Cognitive Task Analysis for uncovering the tacit knowledge that goes into decision […]. He developed a Recognition-Primed Decision (RPD) model to describe how people actually make decisions in natural settings.

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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. We believe the old, “scalable efficiency” approach to knowledge needs to be replaced with a new, more nimble kind of “scalable learning.”