Knowledge management
What Only Paulo Knows: The Knowledge Nobody Wrote Down
While Paulo is around, it works. Nonaka and Takeuchi explained in 1995 why the manual you asked for will never hold what he knows.
Aug 19, 2026 · 8 min
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Knowledge management.
If only one person knows, the company does not know. What to do with what nobody wrote down.
Every mid-size company has a Paulo: the person who solves what nobody else can solve. While Paulo is around, it works. When Paulo takes a vacation, operations find out how big the hole is.
Here we treat knowledge as an operating asset, using Polanyi, Nonaka and Takeuchi — and without the fantasy that asking everyone to document everything is a plan.
Knowledge management
Why the same problem comes back with another name
Last quarter's failure came back with a different name. It's not bad luck or lack of effort: it's the delayed effect of the fix that worked last time.
Apr 15, 2026 · 9 min
Knowledge management
Knowledge management
The most qualified team is often the one that learns least
Those who rarely fail get little practice examining their own error. That's why post-failure reviews tend to end in external causes.
Apr 08, 2026 · 9 min
Knowledge management
Knowledge management
Knowledge that does not flow is not an asset
The wiki didn't die for lack of a tool. It died because writing cost real time for people who knew things and was worth nothing to those who wrote.
Apr 01, 2026 · 9 min
Knowledge management
Knowledge management
Nobody learns the operation by reading the manual
You learn the operation by being part of it, in real, low-risk tasks. The manual is a support tool; it was never the path.
Mar 25, 2026 · 9 min
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Tell us in two lines what is stuck. We reply with a concrete path, not a catalogue.