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5 Steps To Develop A Learning Culture At Work

The Horizons Tracker

Now, however, we’re in a third-generation of the learning organization, with new technologies speeding up the rate at which we can both absorb new information and test our assumptions. This is a world that tries to overcome the innovator’s dilemma by learning new things even when their current strength remains powerful.

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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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The MBA M-Prize's Winning Hack

Harvard Business Review

Last Monday, the Management Innovation Exchange announced the winners of the first MBA M-Prize, which I wrote about some months ago. From 114 entries (or hacks) that offered proposals for correcting flaws in current management practice, the judges initially narrowed down the field to seven finalists.

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

Strategy Driven

Like rungs on a ladder, each phase builds on the next, so it’s important that you consider each step as you create your knowledge retention program. 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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Case Study: Will Our Chinese Partner Copy Our Technology?

Harvard Business Review

While Blue Sky is an SOE, I think they really want to differentiate themselves, and they're willing to use a lot of our technology.". Lin Dachun, the VP and general manager of the automobile electronics unit, cheered. One person wasn't smiling. The workers standing near him applauded.

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Executive Education Is Ripe for Online Disruption

Harvard Business Review

Second, to fully appreciate the forces at work in executive education, we need to complement this view with another body of theory from knowledge management. Education is basically that — knowledge sharing. We called it a codification strategy to knowledge sharing. Nitin Nohria, Tom Tierney (then-CEO of Bain & Co.)