Strategy Driven

NOVEMBER 17, 2010

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. Manager can avoid this by taking some steps now to prepare for the day when key workers leave.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 15, 2017

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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Tacit Knowledge Explicit Knowledge Efficiency Directory 15

Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 31, 2018

Developing a diverse leadership pipeline can benefit companies in all sectors. And yet black women’s advancement into leadership roles has remained stagnant , even as the number of them in professional and managerial roles has increased. How People Get Ahead. They pursue management challenges.

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Management Tacit Knowledge Diversity Leadership Pipeline 13

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 12, 2014

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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Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

That's why, over the long term, it's just so hard to hold on to your top talent--because it's so hard to maintain the quality of your in-the-trenches leadership, especially in a fast-growth environment. It's worth paying attention to how Google responds to this very human challenge to its long-term strategic leadership.

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Harvard Business Review

FEBRUARY 29, 2016

They have an even harder time admitting that the answer might be new leadership. As a venture begins achieving a solid foothold in the marketplace, it needs different leadership capabilities to create maximum shareholder value. Resistance to change must be overcome. Minimize the handover period.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 12, 2016

Staff at Jane’s business school designed a six-week course on positive leadership. The group is now designing a certification training program to deliver the content of the positive leadership course to other staff on campus. In addition, they wanted to improve business acumen and understanding of the business among all leaders.

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Tacit Knowledge Quality Leadership Pipeline Learning-by-Doing 8

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 30, 2010

Cathleen Black's appointment raises, first, the perennial question: Is leadership a highly contextual capability? 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.

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 6, 2018

Although replacing a poorly-performing organization’s leadership can help improve its performance over time, some disruption during the transition is inevitable, and frequent transitions make it difficult to ever establish a “normal” rhythm during which real work gets done.

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