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The Rise of the Servant Leader

CLO Magazine

In the 20th century, information became as important as materials, leading to what my friend and mentor Peter Drucker called knowledge work. People were no longer viewed as mere “hired hands,” and managers had to learn to encourage and inspire those who worked with them. It’s a lofty concept. The manager did neither.

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Formal Learning All the Way.Baby

Kapp Notes

The processes have been formalized, in knowledge work, many of the processes are formalized. We like to think knowledge workers spend all day "problem-solving" but in reality they spend all day finding out what procedure should be followed in what situation.

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What is the Important Work?

Clark Quinn

This isn’t news: things are moving faster, we’re having less resources available, our competition is more agile, the amount of relevant information is increasing, customers are more aware, the list goes on. Not surprisingly for regular readers, I think that the nature of work is changing. create new processes.

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Concept Worker

Tony Karrer

But then he describes how we've really moved on past that to a new age where the dominant value for most organizations are created by high-end knowledge workers working on concepts. But, I actually think we should be focused on the emphasis on the type of knowledge work and the type of workers. In other words.

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Social Network Tools

Tony Karrer

I'm hoping you can help a reader with thoughts and likely help others of us … A medium size nonprofit and lobbying organization is working on a designing and creating a social / work network for experts, students, volunteers who are willing to help through campaigning, lobby, sharing knowledge, working on solutions (writing documents).

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The Benefits of Using an Employee Skills Database for Organisational Strategy

Acorn Labs

This is where creating a comprehensive skills inventory comes into play. You need to have an understanding of the current state of your organisation before you can plan for its future. That requires data on your employees' skills to understand the skill sets currently available to your organisation.

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The Benefits of Using an Employee Skills Database for Organisational Strategy

Acorn Labs

This is where creating a comprehensive skills inventory comes into play. You need to have an understanding of the current state of your organisation before you can plan for its future. That requires data on your employees' skills to understand the skill sets currently available to your organisation. Succession planning.

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