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What makes an effective knowledge worker?Monday 2 October 2006 17:50 GDT |
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At the Osney Media European Knowledge Management Thought Leaders Forum last week In London we broke into several "discussion pods" to discuss topics of interest. Earlier, I had proposed a theme of "What are the habits of effective knowledge workers?" and was pleased that this was one of the topics selected. There were about five of us at our table and we started by getting into a discussion about what were we talking about: habits; skills; attitudes; behaviors; values; mindsets or what? We decided quite quickly that we would run out of time if we focused on these differences and decided just to brainstorm everything without attempting to categorize them. This is the list we came up with. As the others carried on a conversation - I just scribbled down the key attributes - here they are - pretty much in the order they arose and unedited. An interesting set of attributes but by no means exhaustive. Will be interesting now to analyze them and pull them into some sort of structure and order. Seems to me though that many of these attributes are 'soft' in nature and difficult to teach or learn. How does someone learn 'not to need praise' for example and just how important an attribute is it?
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