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77: The Effective Executive

Cortex

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The Cost of Knowledge Work

knowledge work is not defined by its costs, which I also interpreted that like you're not looking at cost per unit of idea. There are some ways in which knowledge work can have tremendous costs, but then also Outsized results in a way that physical products simply never could. So it doesn't always make sense to think about cost cutting measures in relation to Knowledge Work. But if you're a cost cutter, you've made effect You've been effective by cutting that cost even though there was no point doing it. It's kind of a case of because you can't he says like cost cutting is pointless.

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