Hello all: Having worked for non-profit organizations for more than 15 years, I thought that the idea of being a "knowledge worker" was actually a new term that evolved with advanced use of personal computers--which seemed to rise exponentially with the birth of Internet. Around the mid-to-late 1990s when people started to talk about the information overload that was packaged in emails and digitally distributed reports, I also started people talk about Knowledge as the proper packaging, distribution, and application of information.
It turns out, according to a book I just listened to called, "Thinking for a Living: How to Get Better Performances And Results from Knowledge Workers (Hardcover)", that the term is much older that I expected (Peter Drucker- circa 1960s). That said, if you consider yourself a knowledge worker, and the book would suggest that many of you are, it's worth perusing. Thanks, Arnold ************************************************************************* ** List info, subscription management, list rules, archives, privacy ** ** policy, calmness, a member map, and more at http://www.cguys.org/ ** *************************************************************************
