“The reason knowledge workers are losing their familiarity with deep work is well established: network tools.” — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
Managers are agents of transformation, converting the workforce in developed countries from one of manual workers to one of highly educated knowledge… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
If people can't make ends meet at home with food, benefits, health, and health care in particular, how can they be present,… — Mark T Bertolini Copy Share Image
Business is a conversation because the defining work of business is conversation - literally. And 'knowledge workers' are simply those people whose… — David Weinberger Copy Share Image
The young knowledge worker whose job is too small to challenge and test his abilities either leaves or declines rapidly into premature… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The most valuable assets of a 20th-century company were its production equipment. The most valuable assets of a 21st-century institution, whether business… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
“We have become so obsessed with getting rid of people who are burdened with the characterization overhead that we have ended up… — Tom DeMarco Copy Share Image
“musicians, athletes, and chess players, among others, know all about deliberate practice, but knowledge workers do not. Most knowledge workers avoid the… — Cal Newport Copy Share Image
To be effective, every knowledge worker, and especially every executive, therefore needs to dispose of time in fairly large chunks. To have… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
We all have a vast number of areas in which we have no talent or skill and little chance of becoming even… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
The great challenge to management today is to make productive the tremendous new resource, the knowledge worker. This, rather than the productivity… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
“In knowledge work . . . the task is not given; it has to be determined. ‘What are the expected results from… — David Allen Copy Share Image
It is instructive to see how organizations pursue their goal of reducing errors and uncertainty. They impose standards, employ checklists, demand that… — Gary A. Klein Copy Share Image
The technologies that will be most successful will resonate with human behaviour instead of working against it. In fact, to solve the… — John Seely Brown Copy Share Image
..there is need for a person to be generally educated. Otherwise you shrivel up much too soon. Whether this means reading the… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
Let me go out on a limb and suggest that those who see hints of a new class ideology developing around information… — Steven Weber Copy Share Image
Understanding our strengths, articulating our values, knowing where we belong -- these are also essential to addressing one of the great challenges… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
“Peter Drucker, these “knowledge workers, unlike manual workers in manufacturing, own the means of production: they carry that knowledge in their heads… — Adam M. Grant Copy Share Image
“it occurred to me that teachers are the consummate knowledge workers, yet they were being treated like manual workers.” — Deborah Kenny Copy Share Image
“Another study, of 38,000 knowledge workers across different sectors, found that the simple act of being interrupted is one of the biggest… — Susan Cain Copy Share Image
The most important contribution management needs to make in the 21st century is ... to increase the productivity of knowledge work and… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
“People in general, and knowledge workers in particular, grow according to the demands they make on themselves. They grow according to what… — Peter F. Drucker Copy Share Image
Public education is the key civil rights issue of the 21st century. Our nation's knowledge-based economy demands that we provide young people… — Eli Broad Copy Share Image
Throughout all the years and in everything we do, we have focused most of all on the development of human capacity, beginning… — Talal Abu-Ghazaleh Copy Share Image
The 8th Habit, then, is not about adding one more habit to the 7 - one that somehow got forgotten. It's about… — Stephen Covey Copy Share Image
The most important, and indeed the truly unique, contribution of management in the 20th century was the fifty-fold increase in the productivity… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
This society in which knowledge workers dominate is in danger of a new "class conflict" between the large minority of knowledge workers… — Peter Drucker Copy Share Image
