Management and Knowledge Management Book Reviews
by Dr. Moria Levy

Knowledge Management presents knowledge management as a practical discipline for connecting people, content, processes, and decisions to improve organizational performance. Its value lies in translating strategy into actionable structures- portals, roles, content organization, and success factors- that help organizations embed knowledge sharing and continuous learning into daily work. I have delved into numerous books on knowledge management, categorizing them broadly into works by Key...

Naked Conversations presents blogging as a strategic business tool for building trust, transparency, and direct engagement with customers and communities. Its practical value lies in showing how authentic conversations, employee voices, and participatory digital channels can strengthen reputation, accelerate feedback, and support more human-centered business communication. "Naked Conversations" explores the realm of blogs, primarily focusing on non-organizational blogs that contribute to...

Knowledge Creation & Management: New Challenges for Managers frames knowledge as a strategic capability built through vision, dialogue, trust, networks, and leadership. Its practical value lies in showing managers how to create conditions for knowledge creation, transfer, and renewal so organizations can strengthen innovation, collaboration, and long-term competitive advantage. Upon learning about the release of Nonaka and Ichijo's new book, I couldn't resist delving into its contents....

Leadership on the Line defines leadership as the work of mobilizing people to confront adaptive challenges, manage conflict, and sustain change under pressure. Its practical value lies in helping leaders distinguish authority from leadership, regulate resistance, and build the resilience needed to guide organizations through difficult, necessary transformation. "Leadership on the Line" is a book by Lynskey and Heifetz, which has garnered considerable acclaim. Early readers, including Eli...

Linked explains how networks shape phenomena from the web and social ties to biology and infrastructure, showing that hubs, clusters, and weak links drive growth, resilience, and vulnerability. Its practical value lies in helping readers understand how influence, spread, stability, and connectivity emerge in complex systems. It would be the epitome of popular science if one encapsulates the greatness of the book "Links," originally titled "Linked," in a single phrase. In a positive sense,...

Communities of Practice explains how people learn, build identity, and create shared meaning through regular participation in communities centered on common practice. Its practical value lies in showing organizations how community, participation, and shared experience strengthen knowledge sharing, learning, belonging, and the long-term development of expertise. ” Communities of Practice ” explores learning and knowledge from the perspective of a researcher and consultant in learning social...

The Knowing-Doing Gap explains why organizations often possess sound ideas yet fail to turn them into action. Its practical value lies in showing how fear, excessive talk, internal competition, and misguided measurement block execution- and how leaders can create cultures that convert knowledge into consistent organizational performance. Do you know those things that seem trivial but only become apparent in hindsight? "The Knowing-Doing Gap" is one such book. It delves into a problem closely...

Deep Smarts explains how practical wisdom is built through guided experience, coaching, pattern recognition, and reflection- not just information accumulation. Its value lies in helping organizations identify experts, accelerate the transfer of tacit know-how, and develop people who can make sound judgments in complex, unfamiliar situations. Leonard and Snap's book, published by Harvard Business School Press in 2005, is a relatively recent publication. The book delves into a critical issue...

If Only We Knew What We Know defines knowledge management as systematically turning existing organizational knowledge into business value through sharing, reuse, and execution. Its practical value lies in showing how culture, infrastructure, measurement, and focused implementation help organizations improve performance, innovation, and operational efficiency. I've reviewed numerous books on knowledge management and its fundamentals, and unquestionably, "If Only We Knew What We Know," written...

Enabling Knowledge Creation explains that innovation does not arise from knowledge alone, but from the conditions that enable knowledge to emerge, spread, and evolve. Its practical value lies in showing how vision, dialogue, knowledge activists, supportive context, and scaling local insights create sustained organizational learning and innovation. Undoubtedly, "The Knowledge-Creating Company," authored by Nonaka and Takeuchi in 1995, is a seminal work in knowledge management. Delving into...

Working Knowledge defines knowledge management as a practical discipline that turns data, information, expertise, and organizational routines into business value through creation, transfer, structure, and use. Its practical value lies in showing that effective knowledge management depends on balancing people, processes, technology, and leadership to improve decisions and performance. " Working Knowledge ," authored by the globally renowned leaders in knowledge management, Larry Prusak and...

Learning to Fly presents knowledge management as a practical business discipline that connects people, processes, and knowledge assets to improve performance. Its value lies in showing how organizations can capture experience, share expertise, and embed learning into daily work through simple, repeatable methods that strengthen trust, collaboration, and execution. Prominent figures such as Nonaka, Davenport, Prusak, David, and Snowden are frequently cited in the knowledge management...