The New Knowledge Worker

THE NEW KNOWLEDGE WORKER The Knowledge Worker has played an imperative role in business development over the decades. In fact, knowledge workers have driven an estimated 70 percent of U.S. economic growth in the past 30 years, and 85 percent of the new jobs created in the past 10 years have required what are considered complex knowledge skills. But thirty years ago, knowledge workers conducted their work in different ways than they do now. Mostly driven by new technologies, the differences are rather drastic: Knowledge workers, as defined by knowledge productivity guru, Peter Drucker, are: 1. Decision makers 2. Innovators 3. Self-managing 4. Defined by the quality of their work, not the quantity of output 5. Continuous learners 6. An asset to a company rather than a cost 1970's KNOWLEDGE WORKER 12 L. Always tuned to the For quick access to converse with the higher-ups news...when not watching training videos The bigger the tie, the smarter you feel Used to draft up training manuals for the company's grunt workers KNOWLEDGE TRAINING Training video used for acquiring information pertaining to specialized skill Used to calculate how much each minute of Where all the action their company's time is worth takes place and all the deals are closed Blueprints requiring careful and thorough analysis Encyclopedia set for quick access to all subjects THE NEW KNOWLEDGE WORKER Because knowledge workers require the most innovative technologies in order to get real work done. Also doubles as a video game console For a quick escape to Angry Birds when feeling bogged down Always armed and ready for that ever-important conference call Complicated charts and graphs make them look like they're always working For quick access to scholastic journals of all studies LexisNexis Additional hard drives | to store the knowledge worker's most important files sources: https://www.mckinseyquarterly.com/ Drucker, Peter E. Management Challenges of the 21st Century. New York: Harper Business, 1999. mindflash.com CLOPEDIA BRITANI ICYCLOPEDIA BRITANNICA ENCYCLOPEDIA BRITANNIC. YCLOPEDIA BRITANNIC