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Help Employees Create Knowledge — Not Just Share It

Harvard Business Review

Without diminishing the value of knowledge sharing, we would suggest that the most valuable form of learning today is actually creating new knowledge. In the process, they develop new knowledge about what works and what doesn’t work in specific situations. It typically can’t be written down and shared with others.

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

Strategy Driven

– How to Create and Implement a Knowledge Transfer Program, part 1 Posted by Ken Ball and Gina Gotsill on November 10, 2010 · 2 Comments The clock is ticking: next year, in 2011, the oldest of the 76 million Baby Boomers turn 65. Manager can avoid this by taking some steps now to prepare for the day when key workers leave.

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How Women of Color Get to Senior Management

Harvard Business Review

They were employed in midlevel to upper-midlevel management positions in strategy, finance, marketing, legal, operations, and technology functions. Some women wanted to advance to senior leadership roles so they could influence business strategy, lead change, and advance the goals and values of the company.

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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. This can result in chaos, confusion, and a situation where the management team is scrambling to operate effectively.

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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. Interactions are also vital for sharing knowledge across sites. The Japanese employees in the Tokyo headquarters communicated in Japanese, the Americans in the U.S.

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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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We Learn More When We Learn Together

Harvard Business Review

For example, to build capacities for managing stress, watch a series of TED Talks that inspire and educate on successful strategies for stress reduction. At workforce solutions firm Kelly Services, two operational leaders saw a need to increase the leadership pipeline and employee engagement through strengthening network connections.