an online book by David Gurteen
A knowledge worker is a worker whose main capital is their knowledge and expertise. Examples of such professionals include ICT professionals, physicians, pharmacists, architects, engineers, mathematicians, scientists, designers, public accountants, lawyers, librarians, archivists, editors, and academics, whose job is to "think for a living".
Credit: Wikipedia - knowledge workerEvery 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. | Peter Drucker Continue reading What Is a Knowledge Worker? Peter Drucker (1959)
A Knowledge Worker is someone who gets to decide what he or she does each morning. Credit: Tom Stewart Comment: In knowledge work, choice isn’t a luxury—it’s the job. Navigating that freedom skillfully is where Conversational Leadership becomes essential.Posts where this quotation is embedded What Is a Knowledge Worker? A knowledge worker is someone whose job Continue reading What Is a Knowledge Worker? Tom Stewart Tom Stewart
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 … | David Weinberger Continue reading What Is a Knowledge Worker? David Weinberger David Weinberger (2000)
Knowledge workers are those people who have taken responsibility for their work lives. They continually strive to understand the world about them and modify their work practices and behaviors to better meet their personal and organizational objectives. No one tells them what to do. They do not take No for an answer. They are self motivated. | David Gurteen Continue reading What Is a Knowledge Worker? David Gurteen David Gurteen (2006)
In the new economy, conversations are the most important form of work. Conversations are the way knowledge workers discover what they know, share it with their colleagues, and in the process create new knowledge in the organization. Conversations inside and outside the company are the chief mechanism for making change and renewal an ongoing part of the company’s culture. One of the many paradoxes … | Alan Webber Continue reading Conversations Are the Most Important Form of Work Alan Webber
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. | David Weinberger Continue reading Business Is a Conversation David Weinberger
We live in a world where more of us work with knowledge than with things. But we rarely ask what it means to be a knowledge worker. It’s not just about information or tools. It’s about how we think, how we act, and how we take responsibility for our own work. Continue reading What Is a Knowledge Worker? A knowledge worker is someone whose job entails having really interesting conversations
Hard Conversation Conversation Sharpens the Saw Close Pop-up all posts in this chapter What’s the Vibe? Please be patient as this may take up to a minute to load… Close 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 Continue reading Let’s Have More Interesting Conversations It’s our job
When considering knowledge sharing or creating a more collaborative culture, we often talk about the need for people to be open and transparent. These two concepts are usually used interchangeably and often without too much thought as to what they mean. To be effective as knowledge workers, we need to network, share more, work more collaboratively, and work in a way that facilitates continuous … Continue reading Be Open and Transparent ** Key traits of knowledge workers
