Includes bibliographical references and index.

Why Should You Care about Knowledge Leadership? -- The Knowledge Leadership Challenge -- The Emerging Era of the Knowledge Leader -- Becoming a Knowledge Leader -- Discovering Your Knowledge Leadership Style -- Learning from Commissar and Yogi Leaders -- Stepping Back to Envision New Possibilities -- Studying Knowledge Leadership Behavior: Lessons from Cross-Cultural Research -- Putting Knowledge into Action -- Aligning Knowledge with Business Strategies -- Understanding the Role of Knowledge in Organizations -- Developing Pragmatic Knowledge -- Putting Action into Knowledge -- Learning to Make Knowledge Pragmatic -- Leading Knowledge Processing -- Leading FAST Knowledge-Based Organizations (KBOs) -- Developing FAST KBOs -- Learning from Experience: A Case of Mistaken Identity -- Balancing Knowledge and Management Systems -- Constructing Effective Knowledge Infrastructures -- Putting it all Together -- Using 5-Point Dynamic Mapping to Lead FAST KBOs.

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In Knowledge Leadership, Cavaleri and Seivert describe the dawning of a new era in which individuals are "leading" rather than "managing" knowledge. In the past, many knowledge-based initiatives have failed because leaders underestimated the powerful link between knowledge and performance improvement - and also because they mistakenly thought that "information" was the same as knowledge. Cavaleri and Seivert claim that, while information is a necessary precursor to knowledge, it is not sufficient in itself for improving business performance. The authors describe notable organizations that use the pragmatic knowledge strategies they describe to gain competitive advantage. Pragmatic knowledge is the result of individuals' developing a deeper understanding of how (and why) things work best in practice. The process of creating pragmatic knowledge transforms key lessons from systems thinking, total quality management, and organization learning into a powerful new business strategy. To help readers apply the concepts and tools in this book, Cavaleri and Seivert draw on case examples and a decade of original cross-cultural research about knowledge leadership. They also invite readers to use The Knowledge Bias Profile to discover their knowledge leadership style. The book systematically outlines a user-friendly strategy for becoming a knowledge leader and for building high-performing, knowledge-based organizations. * Applies well-respected theories of the learning organization and the knowledge-creating company to improving corporate leadership in the knowledge economy * Based on research with hundreds of managers in the US and Asia * Provides a simple framework for improving leader's knowledge gained from experience.

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