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Deep Smarts
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 318

Deep Smarts

Deep smarts are the engine of any organization as well as the essential value that individuals build throughout their careers. Distinct from IQ, this type of expertise consists of practical wisdom: accumulated knowledge, know-how, and intuition gained through extensive experience. How do such smarts develop? And what happens when people with deep smarts leave a particular job or the organization? Can any of their smarts be transferred? Should they be? Basing their conclusions on a multi-year research project, Dorothy Leonard and Walter Swap argue that cultivating and managing deep smarts are critical parts of any leader's job. The authors draw on examples from firms of all sizes and types to...

When Sparks Fly
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 262

When Sparks Fly

How does a leader manage for creativity? Many managers fall into the trap of assuming that only gifted individuals--readily identifiable "creative types"--can produce breakthrough thinking, and if you don't have an eccentric genius on your team, your efforts are doomed to mediocrity. Some even argue that creativity is an art that can't possibly be planned or managed without extinguishing the vital creative spark. Yet, say Dorothy Leonard and Walter Swap, today's most innovative, complex services, products and processes spring from well-led, well-managed group interactions. Blending their backgrounds in business and psychology into a fresh perspective, Leonard and Swap sweep aside conventiona...

Wellsprings of Knowledge
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 334

Wellsprings of Knowledge

Argues that knowledge is a renewable asset and a competitive advantage, and shows ways companies can effectively build and manage knowledge

Critical Knowledge Transfer
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 227

Critical Knowledge Transfer

How to transfer your organization’s most important knowledge—before it walks out the door When highly skilled subject matter experts, engineers, and managers leave their organizations, they take with them years of hard-earned, experience-based knowledge—much of it undocumented and irreplaceable. Organizations can thereby lose a good part of their competitive advantage. The tsunami of “boomer” retirements has created the most visible, urgent need to transfer such knowledge to the next generation. But there is also an ongoing torrent of acquisitions, layoffs, and successions—not to mention commonplace promotions and transfers—all of which involve the loss of essential expertise. ...

Managing Knowledge Assets, Creativity And Innovation
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 592

Managing Knowledge Assets, Creativity And Innovation

This book pulls together for the first time, works on knowledge and innovation, including the implementation of new processes and products, written by Dorothy A Leonard over more than two decades. It consists of articles from journals in diverse fields (e.g. the award-winning article on Core Capabilities and Core Rigidities) and book chapters that cover the innovation process, from its inception in peoples' heads to its implementation. An underlying theme running throughout the book is managing the flow of knowledge that propels innovation — especially tacit knowledge. Such knowledge is difficult to transfer or embody in a new product, process or service. However, it is not only essential but often comprises the most valuable component in the innovation. The opening chapter, written expressly for this volume, probes the connections between tacit knowledge, creativity and innovation. İ İ i

Harvard Business Review on Breakthrough Thinking
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 239

Harvard Business Review on Breakthrough Thinking

Leading Minds and Landmark Ideas In An Easily Accessible Format From the preeminent thinkers whose work has defined an entire field to the rising stars who will redefine the way we think about business, The Harvard Business Review Paperback Series delivers the fundamental information today's professionals need to stay competitive in a fast-moving world. Creativity and innovation are the keys to competitive advantage, and yet many organizations view inspiration as an elusive, unmanageable phenomenon. In fact, proven strategies for fostering and managing creativity do exist--the Harvard Business Review has published some of the best thinking on how to organize for innovation. Harvard Business Review on Breakthrough Thinking highlights leading ideas for incorporating the power of creativity into your strategic outlook. A Harvard Business Review Paperback.

Speech and Language Impairments in Children
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 320

Speech and Language Impairments in Children

Delayed development of speech and/or language is one of the commonest reasons for parents of preschool children to seek the advice of a paediatrician. Accessible to non-academic Speech and Language Impairments provides an overview of recent research developments in specific speech and language impairments, written by experts in the field. Topics include normal and disordered development of problems , crosslinguistic studies, pragmatic language impairments, early identification, educational and psychiatric outcomes, acquired epileptic aphasia and experimental studies of remediation. The book concludes with a chapter by Michael Rutter that gives guidelines for conducting and evaluating research in this field.

Wellsprings of Knowledge
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 360

Wellsprings of Knowledge

Provides managers with the key knowledge building activities they need to guide, control, and inspire. The pioneering book on knowledge management. Probes the relationship between successful innovators and the way they create, nurture, and grow the experience and accumulated knowledge of their organisation.

My Pal Al
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 36

My Pal Al

A child describes the special relationship shared with a cuddly red stuffed bunny.

The Knowledge Link
  • Language: en
  • Pages: 220

The Knowledge Link

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