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Hirotaka Takeuchi is a professor at Harvard Business School and co-author of several influential works on innovation and management.
Known for: The Wise Company: How Companies Create Continuous Innovation
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The Wise Company: How Companies Create Continuous Innovation
The Wise Company explores how organizations can cultivate wisdom to achieve sustainable innovation and long-term success. Building on their earlier work on knowledge-creating companies, Nonaka and Takeuchi argue that true innovation arises from practical wisdom (phronesis) — the ability to make decisions that are both effective and ethically sound. Drawing on case studies from Japanese and global firms, the authors present a framework for leadership and organizational design that integrates knowledge, ethics, and purpose.
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From Knowledge Creation to Wisdom
When I first developed the SECI model—Socialization, Externalization, Combination, and Internalization—it reflected my belief that organizational knowledge is dynamic. Tacit knowledge, rooted in human experience, interacts constantly with explicit knowledge to generate new ideas and practices. Howev...
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The Nature of Practical Wisdom
Aristotle’s concept of *phronesis* has guided my thinking for decades. Unlike *sophia*, which refers to abstract theoretical wisdom, *phronesis* is about knowing how to act rightly in particular situations. It is contextual, ethical, and deeply human. For managers, this means that wisdom is the abil...
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Hirotaka Takeuchi is a professor at Harvard Business School and co-author of several influential works on innovation and management.
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