It is comforting for college faculty to think of themselves as “knowledge workers,” because knowledge work seems relatively protected from some of the ups and downs of the marketplace. But in the age ...

Forbes contributors publish independent expert analyses and insights. Dr. Tracy Brower writes about joy, community and the future of work. This article is more than 7 years old. She was that person ...

Descartes famously proposed cogito ergo sum; “I think, therefore I am.” This was a basic but profound philosophical proposition for an individual thinker’s existence as a thinking entity. No longer ...

As a university professor, I make it a point to invite my students to share their honest feedback about the material I teach. A recurring observation I hear is that while they greatly enjoy and value ...

Who, exactly, are the "knowledge workers" in an organization? Is it the market analyst mapping out profitability trends? The engineer in R&D? The CFO? What about an assembly-line worker who makes ...

For Filipino scientists and other experts these days, nothing is more exasperating, and oftentimes laughable, than watching vetted solutions to pressing problems fall by the wayside and lose to ...