Knowledge Workers


Management Lessons from Mayo Clinic: Inside One of the World’s Most Admired Service Organizations
Clients for Life: Evolving from an Expert-for-Hire to an Extraordinary Adviser
The Scandal of Money: Why Wall Street Recovers but the Economy Never Does
Management Challenges for the 21st Century
Game Plan: Winning Strategies for the Second Half of Your Life
The New Realities
Business @ the Speed of Thought: Succeeding in the Digital Economy
Rise of the Robots: Technology and the Threat of a Jobless Future
Humans Need Not Apply: A Guide to Wealth and Work in the Age of Artificial Intelligence
How Knowledge Workers Get Things Done: Real-World Adaptive Case Management
The Soul of Enterprise: Dialogues on Business in the Knowledge Economy
Rookie Smarts: Why Learning Beats Knowing in the New Game of Work
A More Beautiful Question: The Power of Inquiry to Spark Breakthrough Ideas
The Practical Drucker: Applying the Wisdom of the World's Greatest Management Thinker
Uncommon Sense, Common Nonsense: Why Some Organisations Consistently Outperform Others
Cal Newport
For all of our complaining about the term, knowledge workers have no agreed-upon definition of what ‘productivity’ even means.
Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

Cal Newport
In most cases, people don’t measure the productivity of knowledge workers and when we do, we do it in really silly ways, like how many papers do academics produce, regardless of quality.
Cal Newport, Slow Productivity: The Lost Art of Accomplishment Without Burnout

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