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A Freethinking Leader's Guide To The Real World

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Could you give us a sense of the research behind your book? There’s a lot of pseudo-research in the world of work, sadly—a lot of theorizing about what we should do—that is strangely untethered from proof and falsifiability. Question : The revelations in the book are grounded in a wealth of data.

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Nine Lies About Work

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Could you give us a sense of the research behind your book? There’s a lot of pseudo-research in the world of work, sadly—a lot of theorizing about what we should do—that is strangely untethered from proof and falsifiability. Question : The revelations in the book are grounded in a wealth of data.

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Nine Lies About Work

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Could you give us a sense of the research behind your book? There’s a lot of pseudo-research in the world of work, sadly—a lot of theorizing about what we should do—that is strangely untethered from proof and falsifiability. Question : The revelations in the book are grounded in a wealth of data.

Work 52
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Nine Lies About Work

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Could you give us a sense of the research behind your book? There’s a lot of pseudo-research in the world of work, sadly—a lot of theorizing about what we should do—that is strangely untethered from proof and falsifiability. Question : The revelations in the book are grounded in a wealth of data.

Work 52
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Nine Lies About Work

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Could you give us a sense of the research behind your book? There’s a lot of pseudo-research in the world of work, sadly—a lot of theorizing about what we should do—that is strangely untethered from proof and falsifiability. Question : The revelations in the book are grounded in a wealth of data.

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Why Your Organization Needs Telecommuting – When the Commuter Train Shuts Down

Tech Soup

Despite the fact that many knowledge workers could efficiently and effectively do their work from home, most organizations default to a management and evaluation style designed for factory workers. The majority of academic research in this area has been funded or motivated by transportation improvement efforts.

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Is Your Nonprofit Using Data to Boost Productivity?

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Bureau of Labor Statistics , productivity is a measure of economic performance that compares the amount of goods and services produced (output) with the amount of inputs used to produce those goods and services. billion knowledge workers, equaling a trillion hours per year. According to the U.S. Is everyone excited now?

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