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“Leaders of companies that experience smaller gaps between what they know and what they do understand that their most important task is not necessarily to make strategic decisions or, for that matter, many decisions at all. Their task is to help build systems of practice that produce a more reliable transformation of knowledge into action” (Pfeffer & Sutton, 1999).
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Pfeffer, J. & Sutton, R.I. (1999, Fall). Knowing ‘what’ to do is not enough: Turning knowledge into action. California Management Review, 42(1), 104.
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