Just as Peter Drucker Said:
"Information Specialist are only toolmakers. The users of the data, either, executives or profesionals have to:
Decide which information to use and how to use it.
They have to become Information Literate"
Below you can find information, resources, news regardless on what stage you are in you jouney to Information Literacy.
If you are an Inf. Worker you may be interested in these links
- Information Workers Blog
- This blog was created to share with you why I consider that the Information Workers are and will be the lungs of Great organizations. At the same time give you inside on the tools other Information Workes are using to be more effective
- People Ready Business
- A People Ready Business know that its most valuable asset are its people, for this reason it empowers them to thake the business to the next level. When these people realizes its full potential, the company realices its potential.
- Knowledge Management
- "Knowledge Management caters to the critical issues of organizational adaptation, survival, and competence in face of increasingly discontinuous environmental change.... Essentially, it embodies organizational processes that seek synergistic combination of data and information processing capacity of information technologies, and the creative and innovative capacity of human beings."
Relevant and Timely Information
Many people take 1 day, 3 days or even a few weeks to get the information they need to work (on average)
Links for Executives
I enclose a few links that provide information and tools for Information Workers with the Executive Hat
- The Growth Guru
- Verne´s tools are very practical. His One Page Strategic Plan is a remarkable tool that you should not pass.
- My Team is very good, isn´t it?
- Patrick Lencioni is a master on the subject of teams and the challenges executives face every day. He proposes very practical tools that are easy to implement.
If you are interested in silos, leadership, meetings, and teams this is the resource to use. - Does your organization understands your strategy?
- Dr. Robert Kaplan and Dr.Peter Norton crated the perfect tool to connect your strategy to your entire organization. This site is full of insides about this topic.
- If you are interested in taking care of your customers
- According to a U.S. Government study, nearly 70% of business-to-business customer defections are due to nothing more than a general feeling of indifference from their supplier.
- How Good Companies became Great Companies
- Jim Collins will go down in history for its curiosity about why there are some companies that have grown and have keept superior performance when you compare them to their competitors.
- Because everything starts with you!
- Stephen Covey with its 8 habits and Hirium Smith with is personal planning system give us a process to achive greatness
- Cuold you be using your brain more
- Daniel H. Pink makes an excelent case on the importance of the left part of your brain and connects it to what is happening in our world today.
- Harvard Working Knowledge
- Harvard has put together this valuable souce of information at no cost, where you can search for information on different topics, from entrepeneurship to technology.
- What Every CEO should read
- If you are a CEO and like to keep up with the fast moving world you should be reading a lot. This blog helps you pick what to read.
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