Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
MARCH 21, 2017
When does technology boost personal productivity for nonprofit professionals and when does it get in the way? 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. Amy Su Jen offers up a great framework for individuals.
Eric Jacobsen Blog
MARCH 7, 2021
Very few organizations can measure knowledge-worker performance, for example, and so pronouncements about what leads to it are invariably wrong-headed. There’s a lot of pseudo-research in the world of work, sadly—a lot of theorizing about what we should do—that is strangely untethered from proof and falsifiability.
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Eric Jacobsen Blog
NOVEMBER 19, 2020
Very few organizations can measure knowledge-worker performance, for example, and so pronouncements about what leads to it are invariably wrong-headed. There’s a lot of pseudo-research in the world of work, sadly—a lot of theorizing about what we should do—that is strangely untethered from proof and falsifiability.
Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media
SEPTEMBER 25, 2008
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. Visiting personal or professional sites with no specific goal in mind other than to ???stay industry and the tech industry (fishbowl). Reading what people recommend.
Eric Jacobsen Blog
JUNE 6, 2020
Very few organizations can measure knowledge-worker performance, for example, and so pronouncements about what leads to it are invariably wrong-headed. There’s a lot of pseudo-research in the world of work, sadly—a lot of theorizing about what we should do—that is strangely untethered from proof and falsifiability.
Eric Jacobsen Blog
JANUARY 31, 2020
Very few organizations can measure knowledge-worker performance, for example, and so pronouncements about what leads to it are invariably wrong-headed. There’s a lot of pseudo-research in the world of work, sadly—a lot of theorizing about what we should do—that is strangely untethered from proof and falsifiability.
Eric Jacobsen Blog
APRIL 1, 2019
Very few organizations can measure knowledge-worker performance, for example, and so pronouncements about what leads to it are invariably wrong-headed. There’s a lot of pseudo-research in the world of work, sadly—a lot of theorizing about what we should do—that is strangely untethered from proof and falsifiability.
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