Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2018

And this isn’t for lack of ambition among them: Black women are even more likely to aspire to hold a powerful position with a prestigious title than white women. They were employed in midlevel to upper-midlevel management positions in strategy, finance, marketing, legal, operations, and technology functions.

Management 13

Management Tacit Knowledge Diversity Leadership Pipeline 13

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 29, 2017

Embracing positive indifference. Positive indifference is the ability to overlook many cultural differences as being not especially important or worthy of attention, while remaining optimistic about the process of engaging the culture seen as foreign. Positive indifference is important for two reasons.

Succession 15

Succession Globalization Tacit Knowledge GDP 15

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 23, 2011

Even when optimizing to a transaction, they do so with tacit knowledge of what each transaction is worth. It presents a tremendous opportunity for advertisers to create and amplify positive engagements consumers are having with their products, or the lifestyles those products represent.

Advertising 15

Advertising Tacit Knowledge Media Brand 15

Harvard Business Review

MAY 19, 2016

P&G is unparalleled in developing and positioning personal care and laundry products, but it didn’t have the capabilities to maintain Iams’ distinctiveness in the suddenly more competitive pet food arena. When Procter & Gamble purchased it in 1999 for $2.3 But it didn’t quite work out that way.

IAM 11

IAM Productivity Products Company 11

Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2016

They’re the connections with other people in which we feel positive regard, mutuality, and vitality. Positive regard is the sense that someone sees the best in us, even if we are only connected for a short time. Staff at Jane’s business school designed a six-week course on positive leadership.

Tacit Knowledge 8

Tacit Knowledge Quality Leadership Pipeline Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

A handover period for retaining and transferring knowledge is a golden opportunity to ensure that all tacit knowledge from the founder is transferred to the new CEO and that there are no knowledge gaps. However, a new position for the founder-CEO should be sanctioned only after careful consideration by the board.

CEO 8

CEO Tacit Knowledge Chief Technology Officer How To 8

Harvard Business Review

MARCH 16, 2015

More positively, the typical inverse relationship between tenure and engagement points to an important untapped opportunity for most organizations: the dramatic performance gains that can be made by thwarting it, and keeping long-tenured employees engaged.

Tacit Knowledge 8

Tacit Knowledge Long-term Call Center Company 8

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2011

Hall calls "high-context" cultures, like China, people tend to leave much unsaid in their communication, because they assume a lot of tacit knowledge and understanding (the context). In what the anthropologist Edward T. People from relatively low-context cultures like Europe and the U.S.

Tacit Knowledge 8

Tacit Knowledge Resistance Open-book Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2018

Our research found that worries concerning opportunity costs, personal financial security, or ability to obtain funding for the venture were all positively associated with an entrepreneur’s persistence in pursuing their goals. The source of the fear is important. How can and should entrepreneurs respond to the fear of failure?

Entrepreneur 12

Entrepreneur Self-aware Tacit Knowledge Mentor 12

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

But single-location projects draw on a reservoir or shared tacit knowledge and trust that global projects lack. These positions are desirable ones: Project managers value the opportunity to work closely with the senior executives assigned to their projects. That's partly because they manage global projects like traditional ones.

Globalization 15

Globalization Innovation Team First-mover Advantage 15

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 4, 2012

But single-location projects draw on a reservoir or shared tacit knowledge and trust that global projects lack. These positions are desirable ones: Project managers value the opportunity to work closely with the senior executives assigned to their projects. That's partly because they manage global projects like traditional ones.

Globalization 15

Globalization Innovation Team First-mover Advantage 15

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Unfortunately, as Khurana shows, positive miracles rarely materialize. The other challenge is the amount of tacit knowledge involved in improving the performance of large systems — insight and understanding not easily captured or conveyed by numbers, formulas, or recipes. Two challenges tend to trip up the outsiders.

Tacit Knowledge 12

Tacit Knowledge Festinger Social Capital Education 12

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2018

The members of high performance teams have a high level of tacit knowledge about one another — in other words, they understand each other on a personal level that stretches far beyond knowledge of each other’s resumes. Trust and understanding can only build over time.

Learning Curve 8

Learning Curve Tacit Knowledge Learning-by-Doing Talent Management 8