Posted on 01/07/2008 by Peter Evans
Here’s a new site and community engaged in exploraing and understanding what it means to be a knowledge worker.
My ‘take home’ from this is that it appears to me that a knowledge worker is increasingly shifting to the mentality and/ or practices of the free agent. In part, this is a result of the [...]
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Posted on 25/04/2008 by Peter Evans
Following the previous post on a paper on collaborative workplace, this paper from Harold Jarche has an interesting overview on the skills, attitudes and aptitudes for knowledge workers. The paper reflects many of the conclusions from the Anecdote paper (see my post on this paper here) but rather looking at the individual and technology. I [...]
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Posted on 11/03/2008 by Peter Evans
Was pointed to this post on PM Hut from Raven’s Brain on project management skills and competences. The emphasis on the ’softer’ people management skills:
be a leader and a manager
be a team builder and a team leader
be a negotiator and an influencer
be an excellent communicator
alongside other skills you’d expect in terms of planning, be [...]
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