What Is a Knowledge Worker? Peter Drucker Peter Drucker (1959)

Every knowledge worker in modern organization is an “executive” if, by virtue of his position or knowledge, he is responsible for a contribution that materially affects the capacity of the organization to perform and to obtain results. Credit: Peter Drucker Source: Landmarks of TomorrowPosts where this quotation is embedded What Is a Knowledge Worker? A knowledge … Continue reading What Is a Knowledge Worker? Peter Drucker Peter Drucker (1959)

What Is a Knowledge Worker? David Weinberger David Weinberger (2000)

Here’s a definition of that pesky and borderline elitist phrase, ‘knowledge worker’. A knowledge worker is someone whose job entails having really interesting conversations at work. The characteristics of conversations map to the conditions for genuine knowledge generation and sharing: they’re unpredictable interactions among people speaking in their own voice about something they’re interested in. … Continue reading What Is a Knowledge Worker? David Weinberger David Weinberger (2000)

Business Is a Conversation David Weinberger

Business is a conversation because the defining work of business is conversation – literally. And ‘knowledge workers’ are simply those people whose job consists of having interesting conversations. Credit: David Weinberger Posts where this quotation is embedded What Is a Knowledge Worker? A knowledge worker is someone whose job entails having really interesting conversations at workPeople: … Continue reading Business Is a Conversation David Weinberger

Let’s Have More Interesting Conversations It's our job

Who gets to decide what makes a useful conversation. You or your manager?  In the book The ClueTrain Manifesto, David Weinberger says: It’s always struck me that David didn’t say productive conversations or conversations with “hard outcomes” – he simply said interesting conversations. I recently shared this quote with someone and their response was but … Continue reading Let’s Have More Interesting Conversations It’s our job

What Is a Knowledge Worker? A knowledge worker is someone whose job entails having really interesting conversations at work

Peter Drucker introduced the term “Knowledge Worker” in his book Landmarks of Tomorrow in 1959. But what is a Knowledge Worker? Here is Peter’s answer: And here is a shorter, pithier one that I like from Tom Stewart But this one from David Weinberger in the Cluetrain Manifesto says it all for me. And then, … Continue reading What Is a Knowledge Worker? A knowledge worker is someone whose job entails having really interesting conversations at work