Thinking for a Living: How to Get Better Performances and Results from Knowledge Workers
- 6h 47m 28s
- Thomas H. Davenport
- Gildan Media
- 2006
Based on extensive research involving over 100 companies and more than 600 knowledge workers, Thinking for a Living provides rich insights into how knowledge workers think, how they accomplish tasks, and what motivates them to excel. Davenport identifies four major categories of knowledge workers and presents a unique framework for matching specific types of workers with the management strategies that yield the greatest performance.
In this Audiobook
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1 What's a Knowledge Worker, Anyway?
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2 How Knowledge Workers Differ, and the Difference It Makes
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3 Interventions, Measures, and Experiments in Knowledge Work
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4 Knowledge Work Processes
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5 Organizational Technology for Knowledge Workers
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6 Developing Individual Knowledge Worker Capabilities
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7 Investing in Knowledge Workers' Networks and Learning
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8 The Physical Work Environment and Knowledge Worker Performance
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9 Managing Knowledge Workers
