Sunday's Boston Globe Magazine section had a feature on "best places to work" and many smaller articles on the modern workplace. I thought a few of these had bearing on knowledge workers.
All tagged knowledge workers
Sunday's Boston Globe Magazine section had a feature on "best places to work" and many smaller articles on the modern workplace. I thought a few of these had bearing on knowledge workers.
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.
Inspired by a comment from Robert Lavigne, "Sharing of new found knowledge is the responsibility of all knowledge workers." While many people see KM as all about the "management" and "collection" of knowledge, I have always seen it as about informing as many people as possible about what is going on / what is going through the organizational mind.
David Gurteen posted a draft list of attributes of an effective knowledge worker. There are some interesting thoughts here, as well as comments from Jim McGee and others that round out the idea.
In Gerry McGovern's current New Thinking newsletter/blog, he has an interesting argument that there is "No such thing as knowledge worker." Some of his thinking coincides with personal knowledge management as well.