Peter Drucker, these “knowledge workers, unlike manual…

“it occurred to me that teachers are the consummate knowledge workers, yet they were being treated like manual workers.”

— Deborah Kenny

50 years from now we won't need as much human labour to do what manual workers do, so we should be able to take…

— Bill Gates

Language ought to be the joint creation of poets and manual workers.

— George Orwell

Managers are agents of transformation, converting the workforce in developed countries from one of manual workers to one of highly educated knowledge workers.

— Peter Drucker

The best knowledge workers are working for more than money.

— Marshall Goldsmith

It is instructive to see how organizations pursue their goal of reducing errors and uncertainty. They impose standards, employ checklists, demand that knowledge workers…

— Gary A. Klein

“musicians, athletes, and chess players, among others, know all about deliberate practice, but knowledge workers do not. Most knowledge workers avoid the uncomfortable strain…

— Cal Newport

The technologies that will be most successful will resonate with human behaviour instead of working against it. In fact, to solve the problems of…

— John Seely Brown

The great challenge to management today is to make productive the tremendous new resource, the knowledge worker. This, rather than the productivity of the…

— Peter Drucker

“as we shift to an information economy, more and more of our population are knowledge workers, and deep work is becoming a key currency—even…

— Cal Newport

Business is a conversation because the defining work of business is conversation - literally. And 'knowledge workers' are simply those people whose job consists…

— David Weinberger

Let me go out on a limb and suggest that those who see hints of a new class ideology developing around information technology are…

— Steven Weber

“The reason knowledge workers are losing their familiarity with deep work is well established: network tools.”

— Cal Newport

We all have a vast number of areas in which we have no talent or skill and little chance of becoming even mediocre. In…

— Peter Drucker

“We have become so obsessed with getting rid of people who are burdened with the characterization overhead that we have ended up with organizations…

— Tom DeMarco