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A Freethinking Leader's Guide To The Real World

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Very few organizations can measure knowledge-worker performance, for example, and so pronouncements about what leads to it are invariably wrong-headed. But we’ve been talking about it for a long time, and things don’t seem to have improved very much, if at all. We argue that this is because we’ve got the categories wrong.

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Nine Lies About Work

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Very few organizations can measure knowledge-worker performance, for example, and so pronouncements about what leads to it are invariably wrong-headed. But we’ve been talking about it for a long time, and things don’t seem to have improved very much, if at all. We argue that this is because we’ve got the categories wrong.

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Nine Lies About Work

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Very few organizations can measure knowledge-worker performance, for example, and so pronouncements about what leads to it are invariably wrong-headed. But we’ve been talking about it for a long time, and things don’t seem to have improved very much, if at all. We argue that this is because we’ve got the categories wrong.

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Nine Lies About Work

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Very few organizations can measure knowledge-worker performance, for example, and so pronouncements about what leads to it are invariably wrong-headed. But we’ve been talking about it for a long time, and things don’t seem to have improved very much, if at all. We argue that this is because we’ve got the categories wrong.

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Tech Wellness in the Nonprofit Workplace: Tips for Avoiding Collaborative Overload

Beth's Blog: How Nonprofits Can Use Social Media

The potential for being overwhelmed by technology is magnified in the workplace by something called “ Collaborative Overload ” Rob Cross and Adam Grant in a recent Harvard Business Review article. In comparison, 10 years ago, these managers spent “only” 60 to 65 per cent of their time engaged in those activities. .

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Nine Lies About Work

Eric Jacobsen Blog

Very few organizations can measure knowledge-worker performance, for example, and so pronouncements about what leads to it are invariably wrong-headed. But we’ve been talking about it for a long time, and things don’t seem to have improved very much, if at all. We argue that this is because we’ve got the categories wrong.

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Is Your Nonprofit Using Data to Boost Productivity?

sgEngage

Instead, establishing a foundation of performance metrics and prioritizing strategy development can allow fundraisers to be more effective and spend more time on the things they do best. That’s 800 hours times 1.25 billion knowledge workers, equaling a trillion hours per year. Fundraisers are pressed for time.

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