It\u2019s hard not to be enamored with certain technologies.\u00a0 The truly cutting edge personalized nature of web 2.0 is easy to adopt.\u00a0 My personal favorites are Google products, Firefox, and the engine of this site, WordPress.\u00a0 The reason is that these products are truly extensible from various standpoints.\u00a0 Not only are these products impressive, but companies like these (ok \u2013 maybe not WordPress) are attracting great talent very easily while others are trying to develop brand strategies to increase their pipelines.\u00a0 So when the CEO of Google, Eric Schmidt says \u201cGetting the most out of knowledge workers will be the key to business success for the next quarter century. Here’s how we do it at Google\u201d I listen, and so should you.<\/p>\n
At google, we think business guru Peter Drucker well understood how to manage the new breed of “knowledge workers.” After all, Drucker invented the term in 1959. He says knowledge workers believe they are paid to be effective, not to work 9 to 5, and that smart businesses will “strip away everything that gets in their knowledge workers’ way.” Those that succeed will attract the best performers, securing “the single biggest factor for competitive advantage in the next 25 years.”\u00a0 ((Schmidt, Eric and Varian, Hal.\u00a0 December 2, 2005.\u00a0 \u201cGoogle:\u00a0 Ten Golden Rules.\u201d\u00a0 Retrieved from http:\/\/www.msnbc.msn.com\/id\/10296177\/site\/newsweek\/ on December 29, 2006.))<\/p><\/blockquote>\n