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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.

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

Strategy Driven

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. Will younger workers have the knowledge and skills to run our organizations when they do? But your [.]

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Help Employees Create Knowledge — Not Just Share It

Harvard Business Review

Many leaders see organizational learning simply as sharing existing knowledge. This isn’t surprising given that this is the primary focus of educational institutions, training programs, and leadership development courses. In an organization focused on scalable efficiency, the focus of learning is on sharing explicit knowledge.

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How Women of Color Get to Senior Management

Harvard Business Review

Developing a diverse leadership pipeline can benefit companies in all sectors. 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.

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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. This type of orientation can be incredibly valuable to cultivate for anyone working for multinationals or in other global careers, and can also be used by managers to develop employees.

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Algorithms Make Better Predictions — Except When They Don’t

Harvard Business Review

Further, algorithms cannot (yet, anyway) tap intuition — the soft factors that are not data inputs, the tacit knowledge that experienced managers deploy every day, nor the creative genius of innovators. Algorithms only operate on the inputs they’re provided. So what should managers, especially leaders, do? They are not.

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How Corporate HQ Can Get More from Innovation Outposts

Harvard Business Review

Most of the absorbed knowledge — local contacts and relationships, intelligence, insights, and so on — left with them. The company no longer has any operations at all in Silicon Valley. Some of the outpost team were hired by local companies or joined startups.