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…knowledge workers in real offices… found that an interruption, even if short, delays the total time required to complete a task by a significant fraction.
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52 |
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…as knowledge work makes more complex demands of the labor force, it becomes harder to measure the value of an individual’s efforts.
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55 |
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Knowledge workers… are trending toward increasingly visible busyness because they lack a better way to demonstrate their value.
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64 |
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Deep work requires levels of concentration well beyond where most knowledge workers are comfortable.
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168 |
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Whether someone is the ‘right person’ has more to do with character traits and innate capabilities than with specific knowledge, background, or skills.
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64 |
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The knowledge that you can handle anything that comes your way is the key to allowing yourself to take healthy, life-affirming risks.
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107 |
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People want to be around those who share their time, knowledge, and support.
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136 |
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We know things. We sense things. We don’t know how or why we know things. We just do.
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167 |
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In this world of ubiquitous information… it’s harder than it has ever been in history to maintain a competitive advantage based on intelligence or knowledge.
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Most organizations exploit only a fraction of the knowledge, experience, and intellectual capital that is available to them. But the healthy ones tap into almost all of it.
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