Dorothy Leonard

Dorothy Leonard is cited in The Expertise Economy (Kelly Palmer and David Blake) as a business professor whose questions help someone navigate finding mentors. The book quotes her framework for identifying whom to learn from: “Who is really good at what you want to do? Which experts are held in high regard by their peers and immediate supervisors? Whom do you want to emulate?” Kyle files this under his My Mentors and #mentorship threads — it appears in the book’s broader argument that real workplace skill comes from learning by example and reflection rather than from one-off training sessions.

Context: Dorothy A. Leonard is the William J. Abernathy Professor of Business Administration Emerita at Harvard Business School, known for her research on knowledge management, deep smarts, and the transfer of tacit expertise within organizations.

Where this appears

• The Expertise Economy — quoted for her three questions on selecting mentors and experts to emulate, in the book’s case for learning by example over classroom training