Thinking for a Living by Thomas H. Davenport Has Been Released as an Audiobook by Gildan Media Corp.
How to Get Better Performance and Results from Knowledge Workers : Your Most Critical Asset.
New York City, NY (PRWEB) November 30, 2006 -- Knowledge Workers are the innovators, designers and marketers of company's products and services. They are the highly paid strategists, executives, and IT specialists whose ideas and expertise fuel success. But are they delivering their best performance?
Leading knowledge management and process innovation expert Thomas Davenport shows you in this new audiobook how to:
| | - Identify your company's most crucial category of knowledge workers
- Choose appropriate interventions and performance measures
- Use computers to mediate and structure knowledge work
- Select the most effective technology
- Understand the value of social networks and facilitate their use
- Structure the physical environment to maximize productivity
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"If your job is to 'manage' any of the 36 million Americans who find, create, or package knowledge for a living, you need to listen to this book."
-Carla O'Dell, PhD, President, APQC
"Finally, the long-awaited book on knowledge workers: who they are, what they do, how essential they've become, and how to harness and deploy their consequential talents. It will soon become the classic work on knowledge management."
-Warren Bennis, Distinguished Professor of Business at USC
and coauthor of Geeks and Geezers
Author
Thomas Davenport holds the President's Chair in Information Technology and Management at Babson College. He is Director of Research for Babson Executive Education, an Accenture Fellow, and author, coauthor, or editor of nine books, including Working Knowledge: How Organizations Manage What They Know (HBS Press, 1997).
About the Audiobook:
Title: THINKING FOR A LIVING
Author: Thomas H. Davenport
Format: 6 CD/7 hours
Price: $29.98 (US) / $38.98 (CAN)
ISBN: 1-59659-071-8
Available: November 2006
Published by Gildan Media Corp. This audio title is available at all fine book retailers, on-line and as a download at iTunes and www.audible.com
| | - Also published this month by Gildan Media: Blue Ocean Strategy and Leader's Legacy.
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