Purpose This paper aims to examine factors which influence how tacit knowledge is built and applied by client-facing consultants. Design/methodology/approach Qualitative methods (interviews, thematic analysis) were used to gather and analyse data from 15 consultants in an agricultural extension...

Purpose – The paper seeks to capture leadership tacit knowledge mechanisms built throughout leaders' careers. Learning to be a leader involves developing the tacit knowledge to give confidence in one's decisions. Most of the knowledge required cannot be acquired from explicit documents –...