Thinking for a Living.(Books in Brief)(Book Review)

From: HRMagazine | Date: December 1, 2005| Author: Rivenbark, Leigh | Copyright information

Thinking for a Living

By Thomas H. Davenport, Harvard Business School Press, 2005

226 pages, List price: $27.50, ISBN: 1-59139-423-6

Knowledge workers have high levels of expertise, education or experience, and their jobs involve creating, distributing or applying knowledge. In Thinking for a Living, author Thomas H. Davenport argues against the common practice of managing such workers in the same ways that other workers are managed.

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