The goal isn't efficiency. The goal is getting the right things done.
All tagged Peter Drucker
The goal isn't efficiency. The goal is getting the right things done.
The HBR blog has a piece on knowledge workers and how executives look at their employees: Are All Employees Knowledge Workers? by John Hagel III, John Seely Brown, and Lang Davison.
Compare these quotes. In reading this Ancient Chinese Proverb thanks to Lauchlan Mackinnon, I could help think of Dave Snowden's take on sharing knowledge.
Matt Hodgson has pointed me to the writings of Anne Zelenka and a discussion they've been having about Peter Drucker and the implications of Drucker's thinking on work in a Web2.0 world.
At the non-billable hour, guest-writer Ron Baker says "Attorneys Aren't Knowledge Workers," based on comments of his colleague, Dan Morris. This is a great set of thoughts about knowledge work and follows very much on the original idea of knowledge workers by Peter Drucker: companies need knowledge workers more than they need the company.
Bruce MacEwan found some interesting Drucker quotes in the pages of the Wall Street Journal's feature on the legacy of Drucker. At first glance Drucker and Viable Vision seem to be at odds.