Using these and other examples, I wanted to formulate a positive definition of tacit knowledge. I found that I had to distinguish different types of tacit knowledge.

Examples of expressible tacit knowledge include personal information about staff, colleagues and customers; competitors; recipes and formulas; trade secrets; rules of thumb; and tricks of the trade.

For example, university master’s programs often rely on books and published papers, while Ph.D. programs typically maintain mentor-apprentice relationships to pass along advanced tacit knowledge.

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People often define tacit knowledge as knowledge that you can’t put into words, but this negative definition doesn’t say what tacit knowledge is—just what it isn’t. Tacit knowledge is ...