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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 ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. John Baldoni speaks and writes about candor, courage and community. Today tacit knowledge is less prevalent in management ...

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 ...

Michael Polanyi lives on in the footnotes. If you want to invoke the idea of ‘tacit knowledge’, Polanyi is your reference of choice. You’ll probably cite his major book Personal Knowledge (1958), ...