Knowledge workers Quote by Adam M. Grant

“The knowledge worker cannot be supervised closely or in detail. He can only be helped. But he must direct himself, and he must direct…

— Matt Perman

“Knowledge work as a heavily human task became industrialised in the pursuit of standardisation and efficiency”

— Isabel De Clercq

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

“But the greatest opportunities and boundless accomplishments of the Knowledge Worker Age are reserved for those who master the art of “we.”

— Stephen R. Covey

“Those who work, knows the strength of labour.”

— Lailah Gifty Akita

“They were taught to be technicians, not thinkers, in a culture that is long on know-how and short on know-why.”

— Anonymous

“build ever-deeper knowledge about how to manage the systems for doing our work, converting inevitable up-front ignorance into knowledge.”

— Gene Kim

“Knowledge does not stand still; it flows into the company, and it flows out of it; it erodes, and it gets created again.”

— Pearl Zhu

“As more complex forms of knowledge emerge and an economic surplus is built up, experts devote themselves full-time to the subjects of their expertise,…

— Peter L. Berger

“We now live in a world where the most valuable skill you can sell is knowledge.”

— Barack Obama

“The more skill it takes to accomplish a task, the more difficult it is to comprehend the knowledge needed to deal with it, the…

— Luigina Sgarro

“Henry Ford, when asked about his employees, said it best: “None of our men are ‘experts.’ We have most unfortunately found it necessary to…

— Peter H. Diamandis