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.

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