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 ...

Scientific knowledge is explicit knowledge. It is precise, and thus can be explicated in mathematical formulas, textbooks, blueprints, procedures, and manuals. It can be converted into a system, ...

Almost all rich countries are rich because they exploit technological progress. They have moved the bulk of their labor force out of agriculture and into cities, where knowhow can be shared more ...

Unless otherwise indicated, all quotations from de Architectura are from the Belles Lettres editions, and all English translations are slightly modified versions of the Penguin translation. The entire ...

Bottom Line: Companies gain a competitive advantage when different divisions, such as sales and marketing, share non-quantifiable information. But to support the flow of this all-important tacit ...

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), ...

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 ...

“Keep me posted on heart-warming stories, or any irregularities in the sports scene. Protection of sources guaranteed.” These odd phrases, which were posted under the profile photo of the former ...