I have an 'Iceberg Theory' that runs similar to this that I've come up with after a few decades of being a knowledge worker. I never knew that there was actual words and theory in place for it. These are concepts I walk my coaching clients through and help them explore and strengthen. Thanks +Jeff Jockisch!!

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Tacit Knowledge

Deeply personal experience, aptitudes, perceptions, insights, and know-how that are implied or indicated but not actually expressed – it resides in individuals & teams. http://bit.ly/H0cCOu

Tacit knowledge (as opposed to formal or explicit knowledge) is knowledge that is difficult to transfer to another person by means of writing it down or verbalising it. http://bit.ly/HgZ2YB

Unwritten, unspoken, and hidden vast storehouse of knowledge held by practically every normal human being, based on his or her emotions, experiences, insights, intuition, observations and internalized information. Tacit knowledge is integral to the entirety of a person's consciousness, is acquired largely through association with other people, and requires joint or shared activities to be imparted from on to another. Like the submerged part of an iceberg it constitutes the bulk of what one knows, and forms the underlying framework that makes explicit knowledge possible. Concept of tacit knowledge was introduced by the Hungarian philosopher-chemist Michael Polanyi (1891-1976) in his 1966 book 'The Tacit Dimension.' Also called informal knowledge. http://bit.ly/GVLyli

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