Is Your Company Encouraging Employees to Share What They Know?

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Christopher G. Myers
Harvard Business Review, 2015 Nov

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Myers, C. G. (2015). Is Your Company Encouraging Employees to Share What They Know? Harvard Business Review.

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Myers, Christopher G. “Is Your Company Encouraging Employees to Share What They Know?” Harvard Business Review (November 2015).

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Myers, Christopher G. “Is Your Company Encouraging Employees to Share What They Know?” Harvard Business Review, Nov. 2015.

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@article{christopher2015a,
  title = {Is Your Company Encouraging Employees to Share What They Know?},
  year = {2015},
  month = nov,
  journal = {Harvard Business Review},
  author = {Myers, Christopher G.},
  month_numeric = {11}
}

Many of the things we need to know to be successful – to innovate, collaborate, solve problems, and identify new opportunities – aren’t learned simply through schooling, training, or personal experience. Especially for today’s knowledge-based work, much of what we need to know we learn from others’ experiences, through what’s called vicarious learning.

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Myers, C.G. 2016. Vicarious learning: Employees sharing what they know. We Seek: Learning From & With Each Other, Issue Zero, 18 – 21.