The Importance of Diversity and Inclusion in Creating Knowledge and Learning

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Much of your writing has expressed the importance of diversity and inclusion in creating knowledge. Can you just discuss with the audience why this is so valuable? Well, it's a fellow named Scott Page who wrote this wonderful book on cognitive diversity. He also wrote a book on teams recently on teams and the team advantage in cognitive diversity. That's just one sort of diversity. But let me mention that one because it's less, it's not as well known.

We are living in a project economy where products, services, and ideas are developed through the global exchange of knowledge. However, what are we talking about when we talk about working knowledge?

In this podcast, Laurence Prusak will discuss how the most successful teams and organizations find, create, nurture, and distribute knowledge for the ultimate competitive advantage. Larry is the co-author of several of the most successful management books on this subject , ‘Working Knowledge: How Organizations Manage What They Know,’ and ‘What’s the Big Idea? Creating and Capitalizing on the Best Management Thinking.’ Larry discusses with PMI COO, Joe Cahill, how working knowledge is very different from data and information. He will also discuss how organizations capitalize on effective knowledge and why knowledge is profoundly social.

PMI community members can access 2015 PMI Pulse of the Profession report on ‘ Capturing the Value of Project Management Through Knowledge Transfer,’ featuring Larry Prusak at https://www.pmi.org/-/media/pmi/documents/public/pdf/learning/thought-leadership/pulse/capture-value-knowledge-transfer.pdf?v=b80b434a-f451-47ac-acb9-05adc1d834af&sc_lang_temp=en-GB