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6. What are some of the key enablers and major obstacles to effective knowledge
sharing that can be attributed to the overall organizational culture? To the diverse
microcultures?
7. Describe how you would initiate an organizational change initiative. Provide an
estimate of how long you believe each stage would last.
8. What are some of the ways of assessing whether or not the culture is changing, or
maturing, toward an intended end state? Provide examples.
9. What are some of the ways you would go about learning what an organization ’ s
values are? How would you collect and analyze stories, myths, and the typical language
used by a particular CoP?
10. How would you forge a bridge between the largely tacit cultural knowledge of an
organization and the largely explicit organizational memory system that should serve
to preserve this knowledge?

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