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The most valuable asset of a twenty-first-century institution, whether business or nonbusiness, is its knowledge workers and their productivity.
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191 |
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The realization that skill and knowledge are in the working rather than in the work is the key to making work productive.
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195 |
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To be productive, knowledge workers must be considered a capital asset. Costs need to be controlled and reduced. Assets need to be made to grow….
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201 |
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Knowledge-worker productivity is the biggest of the management challenges of the twenty-first century.
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207 |
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The only true competitive advantage for a company or a nation will increasingly be the productivity of its knowledge workers. This will have a future impact on the governance of the corporation.
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209 |
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The purpose of an organization is to enable ordinary human beings to do extraordinary things. It is a means to make strengths productive and weaknesses irrelevant.
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280 |
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In knowledge work, power comes from transmitting information to make it productive, not from hiding it.
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525 |
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…plain laughter can lead to joyfulness, which in turn can lead to greater creativity, productivity, and collaboration.
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204 |
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Studies show that a certain amount of uncertainty can be good for productivity, especially for bright, motivated employees.
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075 |
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Sadly, many of us spend much of our time oscillating between states of stress and boredom: different but equally unfocused, unproductive, unsatisfying conditions.
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104 |
