Education Quote by Susan Cain

Another study, of 38,000 knowledge workers across different sectors, found that the simple act of being interrupted is one of the biggest barriers to…

— Susan Cain

“interrupting technology workers is easy, because the consequences are invisible to almost everyone, even though the negative impact to productivity may be far greater…

— Gene Kim

“Researchers estimate that workers are interrupted every 11 minutes and then spend almost a third of their day recovering from these distractions. And yet…

— Gary Keller

“Busyness as Proxy for Productivity: In the absence of clear indicators of what it means to be productive and valuable in their jobs, many…

— Cal Newport

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

This society in which knowledge workers dominate is in danger of a new "class conflict" between the large minority of knowledge workers and the…

— Peter Drucker

“...the simple act of being interrupted is one of the biggest barriers to productivity...What looks like multitasking is really switching back and forth between…

— Susan Cain

Knowledge applied is productivity.

— Peter Drucker

I don't think eliminating the knowing-doing gap depends on the amount of knowledge around. It depends much more on people's attitudes and intentions -…

— Jeffrey Pfeffer

It is a nuisance that knowledge can only be acquired by hard work.

— W. Somerset Maugham

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

Knowledge is the source of Wealth. Applied to tasks we already know, it becomes Productivity. Applied to tasks that are new, it becomes Innovation...

— Peter Drucker