We do not know how to measure the productivity of knowledge workers and the self-realization of knowledge workers. But we do know quite a bit about how to improve both (Drucker., Management in Practice).
If we do not increase the productivity of knowledge workers, we will have economic stress, called “inflationary pressure,” and social illness, called “alienation. We cannot measure the productivity or self-actualization of knowledge workers. But we do know how to make them productive and self-actualized.
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