Ron Baker writes an entry today entitled “Attorneys Aren’t Knowledge Workers” in which he says that “Professional firms are not necessarily filled with knowledge workers.”
His colleague Dan Morris believes they are more akin to factory workers and believes that true knowledge workers:
Don’t have billable hour quotas.
Spend at least 15% of their time innovating and creating [...]
I’m in Manila Tuesday afternoon Feb. 14 through, probably, Saturday morning.
My practice in the Philippines is driven by competencies that are not traditionally practiced either here nor in the U.S. They parallel competencies required in the on-line world - because I use the on-line world in my practice.
Bev Traynor has posted a set of notes on the presentation regarding on-line compentencies given by Nancy White [...]