Keynote Speech
"Secrets
of Geek Productivity: How Knowledge Workers Delivery Value"
Improve
Knowledge Worker Productivity
Peter Drucker has called
improving knowledge worker productivity the most important challenge that
managers face in the 21st century. But how can you improve the
productivity of knowledge workers when few people even understand how they
deliver value in the first place? In fact, many of the most productive
geeks don’t even realize how they do it.
In this keynote
presentation, Paul Glen describes the twelve surprisingly different ways
that geeks provide value to their organizations and teams. You may
be surprised to realize that only one of the twelve is technical.
“Insightful and
delightful”
- James Champy, chairman of consulting, Perot Systems Corporation
“Paul Glen provides
excellent advice for managing geeks…. But his insights apply equally well
to the challenge of leading any group of specialists for whom esoteric
knowledge is more important than power, and expertise more determinative
of social dominance than bureaucratic hierarchy, including actors,
athletes, university faculty, musicians, doctors, and bond traders.”
- Steven Sample, president, University of Southern California
“We ought to stop complaining about technical wizards and learn how to
utilize their considerable talents. Paul Glen helps us to do that better
than I ever dreamed possible.”
-
Alan Weiss, author, The Ultimate Consultant Series
“The old phrase
‘knowledge is power” is not quite correct.
Understanding
is power, and that’s what Glen provides.”
- David H. Maister, co-author First Among Equals
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