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For many different knowledge work settings, deploying these short meetings, three to five times a week, can significantly reduce ad hoc email or instant message interactions…

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If you design workflows that allow knowledge workers to spend most of their time focusing without distraction… you’ll produce much more total value…

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Most knowledge workers are so entangled in obligations and commitments and legacy methods of getting things done that there’s often no easy way to reduce this load in one bold move.

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…no knowledge work organization ever conquered a market because of the internal efficiency of its HR department.

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…we have the potential to make these [knowledge work] efforts not only massively more productive, but also massively more fulfilling and sustainable.

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The more you know about someone, the more power you have.

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The ability to mix technical knowledge with solving real-world problems is the key, not sheer number-crunching or programming for its own sake.

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As a general rule, the age structure of achievement is being ratcheted upward due to specialization and the growth of knowledge.

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At any point in time, there will be some new breakthrough areas, where innovators are fundamental and redefine entire sectors of knowledge rather quickly…

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Only under duress will employees pay attention to feedback from managers who know little or nothing about the workers’ jobs.

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