Despite the fact that there are 56 million of us out there, people continue to struggle both with the definition of a knowledge worker as well as with self-identification. In a casual setting, such as ...
So do mathematicians and data scientists. Even journalists like myself qualify. Anyone who “thinks outside of the box” and has to deal with complex ideas, usually sitting behind a computer or laptop ...
There was a possibly apocryphal story raging through the halls of NBC News when I first joined the fledgling CNBC in London back in March of 1989. NBC had just fallen under the controls of Jack Welch ...
On average, four million Americans quit their jobs each month in 2022, nearly doubling quit rates from just 10 years ago. As workers retire and resign from long-held positions, they take with them ...
For more than 13 years, this column has been tracking ongoing research into building and growing an enterprise of the future. This research has produced a set of attributes for an organization to ...
People across industries feel pulled in many directions at once. There is more information, shifting priorities, and pressure to deliver faster with less. The instinct is to push harder, work longer, ...
Who, exactly, are the "knowledge workers" in an organization? Is it the market analyst mapping out profitability trends? The engineer in R&D? The CFO? What about an assembly-line worker who makes ...
In a high-tech society, knowledge is power. And, the importance of knowledge is so pervasive in every segment of employment that there now is a job title for people who work in the area where ...
At a time when progressives can find many reasons to be gloomy, Sarita Gupta, Stephen Lerner, and Joseph McCartin (GL&M) have put forward an inspiring and profoundly hopeful account of the future of ...
I had a great call the other day with Doug Standley of Deloitte and Brian Anderson of Axeda. The two firms have worked out an alliance but it’s the nature of the solution they are taking to market ...