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Knowledge worker productivity biggest 21st century management challenge: Drucker
Reports highlighting Canada's dragging productivity provides us with a space to discuss what Peter F. Drucker defined as the greatest opportunity and challenge of this century: knowledge worker productivity.

 

If Canada's productivity is any indication, it looks as though Drucker was right yet again.
With the move to a knowledge economy, Drucker argued, workers are no longer interchangeable, as they were often viewed in the manufacturing sector, but instead hold the main capital and assets of an organization. It's in their heads. They carry it around.

In Drucker's terms, knowledge workers own the means of production, and because of this experience an unprecedented level of freedom and mobility in their work. Read More