"To treat practical (or tacit) knowledge as having a precisely definable content, which is initially located in the head of the practitioner and then “translated” (Nonaka and Takeuchi, 1995:105) into explicit knowledge, is to reduce what is known to what is articulable, thus impoverishing the notion of practical knowledge. As Oakeshott (1991:15) remarks, “a pianist acquires artistry as well as technique, a chess-player style and insight into the game as well as a knowledge of the moves, and a scientist acquires (among other things) the sort of judgement which tells him when his technique is leading him astray and the connoisseurship which enables him to distinguish the profitable from the unprofitable directions to explore”."

Haridimos Tsoukas, “Do we really understand tacit knowledge?”