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

Hard Conversation Conversation Sharpens the Saw Close Pop-up all posts in this chapter 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 … 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

Knowledge Sharing ** We Know So Much but Understand So Little Close Pop-up all posts in this chapter 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 … Continue reading What Is a Knowledge Worker? A knowledge worker is someone whose job entails having really interesting conversations at work