Frederick Winslow Taylor: father of scientific management.

From: Thinkers | Date: December 1, 1999 | Copyright information

Peter Drucker is often called `the guru's guru'. Drucker himself would suggest that accolade should be given to Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1917):

"On Taylor's `scientific management' rests, above all, the tremendous surge of affluence in the last seventy-five years which has lifted the working masses in the developed countries well above any level recorded, even for the well-to-do. Taylor, though the Isaac Newton (or perhaps the Archimedes) of the science of work, laid only first foundations, however. Not much has been added to them since--even though he has been dead all ...

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