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Thinking for a Living by Thomas H. Davenport

How to get better performances and work from knowledge workers (Sep 2005)

  







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Thomas H. Davenport

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1591394236

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Sep 2005 

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Thinking for a Living by Thomas H. Davenport Knowledge workers create the innovations and strategies that keep their firms competitive and the economy healthy. Yet companies continue to manage this new breed of employee with techniques designed for the Industrial Age. As this critical sector of the workforce continues to increase in size and importance, that’s a mistake that could cost companies their future.

Thomas Davenport argues that knowledge workers are vastly different from other types of workers in their motivations, attitudes, and need for autonomy—and so they require different management techniques to improve their performance and productivity. Based on extensive research involving over one hundred companies and more than six hundred 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. Written by the field’s premier thought leader, Thinking for a Living reveals how to maximize the brain power that fuels organizational success.



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  Information Ecology (1997 ) by Larry Prusak, Thomas H. Davenport
Mastering the Information and Knowledge Environment

  Process Innovation (1992 ) by Thomas H. Davenport
Reengineering Work through Information Technology

  Thinking for a Living (Sep 2005 ) by Thomas H. Davenport
How to get better performances and work from knowledge workers

  Working Knowledge (1998 ) by Thomas H. Davenport, Larry Prusak
How Organizations Manage What They Know

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  Knowledge Worker Performance 
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  Thomas H. Davenport Director of the Accenture Institute for Strategic Change

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  The Mysterious Art and Science of Knowledge-Worker Performance
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