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THE MANAGEMENT TIP OF THE DAY: Harvard Business Review

March 20, 2015

Urge Your Long-Time Employees to Share Their Expertise

Companies can’t afford to lose the deep expertise that long-time employees spend decades cultivating. But that knowledge often does get lost when workers retire. So before that happens, you need to set systems in place to help share their expertise . For example, in some organizations, employees can’t be promoted until they have mentored a successor. In others, compensation is based on how well the team performs, so experienced employees have to help and transfer their expertise to other team members. These strategies embed knowledge-sharing and interaction in the culture. But a bigger problem occurs when people are unhappy with the company they’re exiting, leaving them little motivation to share what they know. Managers need to acknowledge good work to prevent this dissatisfaction. Small acts, like providing regular positive feedback, celebrating small wins, and removing obstacles to progress, pay huge dividends in productivity and creativity.

Adapted from “How to Prevent Experts from Hoarding Knowledge” by Dorothy Leonard.

Pakistan should bowl with positive frame of mind thinking if they can bowl us out cheaply we can also do it.
If fate has ordained defeat for you put up a good fight.
No shame in going down fighting.

“The expectations of life depend upon diligence; the mechanic that would perfect his work must first sharpen his tools.”

— Confucius

“You cannot hope to build a better world without improving the individuals. To that end, each of us must work for our own improvement and, at the same time, share a general responsibility for all humanity, our particular duty being to aid those to whom we think we can be most useful.”
—Marie Curie (1867-1934)
Chemist, Physicist, Nobel Prize Winner