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Importance of goals in adaptive work

Importance of goals in adaptive work

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Importance of goals in adaptive work

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- Here's a crash course in the nature of work. We use our skills to perform tasks to solve problems and generate results. Let me break that down. Workers are problem solvers. How do we solve problems? We perform tasks. How do we perform tasks? We use our skills. Remember, there are two major kinds of skills; knowledges, and transferables. If the past, workers were often thought to need very specific descriptions of the particular tasks they needed to perform in their work. In fact, many organizations group those tasks into processes, sets of tasks bundled together. And many organizations are very proud of their shiny business processes, believing them to be so unique that they're the main reason the organization is successful. I have news for you. Studies by major consulting firms have shown that most business processes are really not that different. Whether it's by independent invention or simply because there are only so many ways to perform the critical tasks of the organization…

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