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Critical Knowledge Transfer : Tools for Managing Your Company's Deep Smarts by Dorothy Leonard-Barton; Walter C. Swap; Gavin Barton is a business book available to read on EtoBox.

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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. Dorothy Leonard and Walter Swap first addressed this acute loss of knowledge in their groundbreaking book Deep Smarts (2005). Since then, managers have repeatedly asked them for practical, proven techniques that will help transfer those deep smarts--the organization's critical, experience-based knowledge--before it's too late. Now, with coauthor Gavin Barton, the authors share a comprehensive approach to doing just that. Based on original research, numerous interviews with top managers, and a wide range o

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Common subject areas: medicine, law, business, engineering.

Author
Dorothy Leonard-Barton; Walter C. Swap; Gavin Barton
Publisher
Boston, Massachusetts: Harvard Business Review Press
Published
2015
Language
EN
ISBN
9781422168110
Category
business
Subjects
Management, Business, Technology
Rating
4.2 / 5 (52 ratings)
Updated
2026-03-14

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