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Managing Knowledge Workers
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A knowledge worker is someone who is employed because of his or her knowledge of a subject matter, rather than ability to perform manual labor. They perform best when empowered to make the most of their deepest skills. (No. 12 | October 2008)
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Reading the Future
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Scenario-building enables managers to invent and then consider in depth several varied stories of equally plausible futures. They can then make strategic decisions that will be sound for all plausible futures. No matter
what future takes place, one is more likely to be ready for
and influential in it if one has thought seriously about
scenarios. Scenario planning challenges mental models about
the world and lifts the blinders that limit our creativity and resourcefulness. (No. 11 | October 2008)
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Storytelling
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Storytelling is the use of stories or narratives as a communication tool to value, share, and capitalize on
the knowledge of individuals. (No. 10 | October 2008)
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Creating and Running Partnerships
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Partnerships have a crucial role to play in the development
agenda. To reach the critical mass required to reduce poverty, there must be more concerted effort, greater collaboration, alignment of inputs, and a leveraging of
resources and effort. Understanding the drivers of success and the drivers of failure helps efforts to create and run them. (No. 9 | October 2008)
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Posting Research Online
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Dissemination is an indispensable means
of maximizing the impact of research. It is an intrinsic element of all good research practice that promotes
the profile of research institutions and strengthens
their capacities. The challenge is to ensure the physical
availability of research material and to make it intelligible to those who access it. (No. 8 | October 2008)
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