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How do business leaders keep knowledge workers emotionally engaged and intellectually focused? How do they set clear mandates, yet create room for entrepreneurial initiatives? How do they guide geo-distributed teams and provide a sense of community? Silicon Valley is an entrepreneurial ecosystem built on knowledge-based assets. A critical challenge is how to recruit, engage, motivate, develop, guide, and retain knowledge workers. This task presents a dilemma: On the one hand, knowledge workers do not want to be micro-managed; on the other hand, they have to be guided, coached, directed, and ultimately “aligned”.
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Bahrami, H., Evans, S. (2010). Super-Flexible Leadership: Aligning Knowledge Workers Through Peer-Peer Practices. In: Super-Flexibility for Knowledge Enterprises. Springer, Berlin, Heidelberg. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-02447-4_8
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