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Harvard Business School Press
Bookwatch, The, March, 2006
Harvard Business School Press
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Knowledge workers are innovators and often driving forces of a company's product line and services: they are IT specialists and planners and you rely on them in your business: but are they delivering as much as they can? Knowledge management expert Thomas Davenport argues many companies don't maximize their productivity because they apply rigid management formulas to their workforce. His Thinking For A Living: How To Get Better Performance And Results From Knowledge Workers (1591394236 $27.50) identifies four major categories of knowledge workers and provides a format for matching each category with management strategies which encourage optimum performance. Karen Berman and Joe Knight's Financial Intelligence: A Manager's Guide To Knowing What The Numbers Really Mean (1591397642, $24.95) tells managers just how to use financial data to make decisions, and how to select and apply the right analytical tools and resources for the decision-making process. The basics of finance are covered along with insights on where financials some from, how they influence decisions different ways when used with different formulas and purposes, and how they can be biased. The authors have trained thousands of managers and employees in the course of their business: their expertise lends to plenty of insights here.
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