TAKE a long look at the Mona Lisa. How do you see her? As blobs of paint or as a woman with an enigmatic smile? Now explain how you came to see those blobs of paint as a smile. For your second mission ...

People often define tacit knowledge as knowledge that you can’t put into words, but this negative definition doesn’t say what tacit knowledge is—just what it isn’t. Tacit knowledge is typically not ...

Becoming a Further Education teacher allows you to share your knowledge with the next generation of workers (Department for Education) Whether it’s solving a logistical problem, navigating a tricky ...

The modern paradigm of knowledge is explicit knowledge that something is the case; but much knowledge is practical knowledge of how to do things – how to ride a bicycle, play a violin, write poetry or ...

Certain skill sets, such as SEO fundamentals or how to navigate a particular CRM system, can be learned by virtually anyone with the right amount of dedication and concentration. Other abilities, on ...

The significance of expertise passed on by direct contact— tacit knowledge — is moot. For the last two decades of the twentieth century, a cold war rumbled on between the laboratories of physicists in ...

A broad array of cultural practices—from the construction of stone tools to the conventions of religious rituals—are highly stable over long periods of time. One might assume that such persistent ...