Knowledge workers create the innovations and strategies that keep their firms competitive and the economy healthy. This book provides insights into how knowledge workers think, how they accomplish tasks, and what motivates them to excel.

Weaving together lessons from such international leaders as Siemens, Unilever, Skandia, and Sony, this work introduces knowledge enabling. It describes the five key knowledge enablers , and outlines what it takes to instill a knowledge vision, manage conversations, mobilize knowledge activists, and more.

Welcome to the attention economy, in which the new scarcest resource isn't ideas or talent, but attention itself. This book argues that businesses are headed for disaster - unless they overcome the dangerously high attention deficits that threaten to cripple the workplace.

Links the areas of organizational behaviour and information management. This book brings together research in organizational theory and information science in a general framework for understanding how organizations behave as information-seeking, information-creating, and information-using communities.

Examines the role that social capital plays in organizations. This book argues that social capital is integral to business life and that without it cooperative action isn't possible. It identifies the social elements that contribute to innovation and productivity, and reveals the benefits that derive from investments in social capital.

Sparked by a conversation about the lack of moral and ethical standards at high levels in business, this text explores the issues of leadership.