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A Freethinking Leader's Guide To The Real World

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Question : Lies is a strong, loaded word. Question : The revelations in the book are grounded in a wealth of data. Very few organizations can measure knowledge-worker performance, for example, and so pronouncements about what leads to it are invariably wrong-headed. If the answer is generic or fuzzy, move on.

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Nine Lies About Work

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Question : Lies is a strong, loaded word. Question : The revelations in the book are grounded in a wealth of data. Very few organizations can measure knowledge-worker performance, for example, and so pronouncements about what leads to it are invariably wrong-headed. If the answer is generic or fuzzy, move on.

Work 52
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Nine Lies About Work

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Question : Lies is a strong, loaded word. Question : The revelations in the book are grounded in a wealth of data. Very few organizations can measure knowledge-worker performance, for example, and so pronouncements about what leads to it are invariably wrong-headed. If the answer is generic or fuzzy, move on.

Work 52
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Nine Lies About Work

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Question : Lies is a strong, loaded word. Question : The revelations in the book are grounded in a wealth of data. Very few organizations can measure knowledge-worker performance, for example, and so pronouncements about what leads to it are invariably wrong-headed. If the answer is generic or fuzzy, move on.

Work 52
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Nine Lies About Work

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Question : Lies is a strong, loaded word. Question : The revelations in the book are grounded in a wealth of data. Very few organizations can measure knowledge-worker performance, for example, and so pronouncements about what leads to it are invariably wrong-headed. If the answer is generic or fuzzy, move on.

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RSS Reading Habits

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

Michele Martin wrote a post summarizing a paper titled How Knowledge Workers Use the Web and pulls out some the classifications referenced in the paper. Looking for something specific, such as an answer to a specific question. Visiting personal or professional sites with no specific goal in mind other than to ???stay

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Tech Wellness in the Nonprofit Workplace: Tips for Avoiding Collaborative Overload

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The session is designed to answer three questions: Why does collaborative technology overload lead to loss of nonprofit workplace productivity and what are the best practices to avoid it? According to Rob Cross’s research, knowledge workers spend 90 to 95 per cent of their time on the phone, responding to e-mails or in meetings.