Five Ways to Work Smarter

Here's a list of "Five Ways to Work Smarter" from Business Week. A summary:

Managers and professionals are running as fast as they can to keep pace with a business world turbocharged by technology. Here's how companies can ease time pressures on their knowledge workers -- and boost productivity and innovation at the same time:

• Manage output rather than hours.
• Train workers in skills appropriate to a more complex corporate structure.
• Push decision-making further down the hierarchy.
• Use new technology to foster collaboration.
• Shift hiring emphasis from supervision to collaboration.

If you want to see brief explanations for each of these, click through to the Business Week graphic.