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Performance Reviews and Coaching: The Performance Management Collection (5 Books)
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Performance Reviews and Coaching: The Performance Management Collection (5 Books)

by Harvard Business Review, Dick Grote
December 2015
Intermediate to advanced
880 pages
13h 11m
English
Harvard Business Review Press
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Chapter 7

Enlist Knowledge Coaches

A summary of the full-length HBR article “Deep Smarts,” by Dorothy Leonard and Walter Swap, highlighting key ideas.

THE IDEA IN BRIEF

It takes years for your company’s best people to acquire their expertise—but only seconds for them to walk out the door when opportunity beckons. And when they go, they take their deep smarts with them. Deeply smart people make intuitive decisions fast and spot problems and possibilities others miss. Informed by almost preternaturally sound judgment and a gut sense for interrelationships, they see the big picture—rather than getting bogged down in details. Their wisdom is crucial to your company’s survival.

How to capture the deep smarts residing in your organization? Turn your ...

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