Management Articles

• Knowledge workers are the new capitalists by Peter Drucker
  "knowledge workers are highly mobile within their specialism. They think nothing of moving from one university, one company or one country to another, as long as they stay within the same field of knowledge. There is a lot of talk about trying to restore knowledge workers' loyalty to their employing organisation, but such efforts will get nowhere. Knowledge workers may have an attachment to an organisation and feel comfortable with it, but their primary allegiance is likely to be to their specialised branch of knowledge."

• The answer to "Will you mentor me?" is
  "I hate to sound all zen master-ey but in my experience, it doing the work that teaches you what you need to do next. Walking the path reveals more of the map. All the mentoring a truly devoted student needs is an occasional nudge here or an occasional brief warning there. Working with uncertainty is part of the learning. Waiting for mentorship/leadership/'community'/ whatever to start working is a flaw that guarantees you will never achieve anything worthwhile."

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• Quality - The Unfair Advantage
  by Anshuman Tiwari in Bangalore, India. "I am a quality professional with special interests in managing large change initiatives, business excellence and Six Sigma. I’m part of the ASQ Influential Voices program."