Frederick Winslow Taylor was the most influential management thinker of the 20th century. His "The Principles of Scientific Management" (1911) put management on a new foundation: Replace traditional ...

Carlos Lau is Founder & CEO of KURIOS, a YC backed company that provides expert-led training and fractional teams. MBA UT-Austin. Imagine walking into an office 50 years ago: a sea of desks, ...

New hires are usually eager to identify problems that nobody else has identified and solve problems that nobody else has solved. They want to improve what’s already there, and they want to invent new ...

Technology has long had an impact on blue-collar workers, automating many manufacturing jobs. Now, with the advent of ChatGPT and generative AI, knowledge workers are anxious about the future of their ...

There's no question that artificial intelligence (AI) is rapidly transforming the working world. According to Microsoft's 2023 Work Trend Index, 82 percent of workforce leaders say their employees ...

According to the Ark Invest Big Ideas 2025 report, agents will increase enterprise productivity via software. Companies that deploy agents should be able to increase unit volume with the same ...

Satya Nadella made a distinction between "knowledge workers" and "knowledge work" in a recent interview. The Microsoft CEO said the definition of cognitive labor will evolve as AI grows more powerful.

Knowledge worker. I remember the first time I heard that term. It was in the early '90s, when futurist Alvin Toffler was talking about the knowledge economy. (Though it was Peter Drucker who coined ...