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The Iceberg of Organizational Knowledge: How to Unlock Tacit Knowledge

QAspire

In fact, most of the content that AI repurposes from online resources is explicit knowledge. The hidden treasure of organizational knowledge is tacit knowledge that is deeply rooted in people, their experiences, skills, insights and judgements. That’s all tacit and invaluable at the same time. Buy Now!

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Help Employees Create Knowledge — Not Just Share It

Harvard Business Review

We believe the old, “scalable efficiency” approach to knowledge needs to be replaced with a new, more nimble kind of “scalable learning.” ” To foster the latter, managers should understand five essential distinctions: Explicit versus tacit knowledge. Individuals versus workgroups and networks.

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What Tesla Knows That Other Patent-Holders Don’t

Harvard Business Review

There’s a lot of thinking in the research these days on the gap between the codified knowledge that is patentable and gets disclosed versus tacit knowledge that really exists in how you actually produce,” says Orly Lobel, a law professor at the University of San Diego specializing in intellectual property.

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With New York Schools Appointment, Bloomberg Did it His Way

Harvard Business Review

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. By definition, tacit knowledge comes with time — so outsiders must approach organizations with humility.

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How to Successfully Work Across Countries, Languages, and Cultures

Harvard Business Review

In his mind, both cleaning rituals demonstrated commitment and responsibility to a particular place. Organizational identification , the term for when an individual feels at one with the organization, is crucial for fostering job satisfaction, commitment, and performance. Interactions are also vital for sharing knowledge across sites.

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How Women of Color Get to Senior Management

Harvard Business Review

Having influential senior leaders — including men as well as women of color — serve as mentors, advisers, and role models provided emerging women managers with the tacit knowledge needed to navigate their company’s leadership structure. Too often, their ambitions are thwarted.

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How Fear Helps (and Hurts) Entrepreneurs

Harvard Business Review

Another outcome we heard: a tendency to escalate commitment to specific goals at the expense of other activities, and sometimes in the face of evidence that a particular path was doomed. (Ironically, selecting impossible goals allows us to more easily rationalize our failure to achieve them.)