A few people mentioned Jonathan Spira's post on Defining Productivity for the Knowledge Age. Productivity is a term you may hear on a daily basis but have you ever stopped to consider its meaning, especially within the context of knowledge work and knowledge workers ? net present value of task 362 on project 22. Great. MORE >>

” The figures are rather simple – knowledge work stands for about 60% of the world’s value creation while knowledge workers spend on average about 2/3rd of their time on managing the flows. Value is created by workers with creativity, passion and initiative. Value Maybe we need to look at productivity differently. MORE >>

At the societal level, we’ve created a political and economic system designed to optimize the overall production and consumption of goods and services; to maximize our financial wealth. It is no longer true that maximizing economic productivity and consumption maximizes our individual and collective well-being. Which was easier? MORE >>

But many companies that would get great value from blogging, in particular for defending their reputation online, are being held back by overwrought fears of the potential dangers. Doing nothing is not necessarily the safest path, let alone the one with greatest value creation. blog without purpose very quickly loses its way. MORE >>

There are two schools of thought to the Twitter value debate. In this post I’m going to look at 10 ways Twitter can really help your productivity, and 10 ways that it can waste your time. Here are ten ways Twitter can be a productivity tool: 1. Which side of the Twitter value debate are you on? Don’t even try. MORE >>