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· Oral culture and the action-centered skills upon which that culture depends are gradually eroded, and perhaps finally displaced, by the incursions of explicit information and intellective skill. · The acting-with skills of the white-collar body are subordinated to the demands associated with dominating increasing quantities of abstracted information. · Increased intellectual content of work tasks across organization levels that attenuates the convention designation of manger and managed. · The total organizational skill base becomes more homogenous. · Learning is not something that require time out from begin engaged in productive activity, learning is the heart of productive activity. · Learning is the new form of labor. · Organizational structure are both emergent and flexible, changing as members continually learn more about how to organize themselves for learning about their business. · Division of learning that supports an informating strategy results in a distribution of knowledge and authority that enable a wide range of embers to contribute these activities.

Webster, Frank, Raimo Blom, Erkki Karvonen, Harri Melin, Karrle Nordenstreng, and Puoskari Ensio. __The Information Society Reader__. 2nd ed. London: Rouledge Student Readers, 2002.p. 317.
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