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Beat the clock The story of Federick Winslow Taylor, who made millions of workers a lot more efficient and a lot less happy
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THE ONE BEST WAY
Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency
By Robert Kanigel. Viking. 675 pp. Illustrated. $34.95.
David Mehegan is the book editor of the Globe.
Some once-influential men sink into obscurity because their ideas
are rejected, others for quite the opposite reason: Their ideas are
so immanent in society that it is hard to imagine they had an
inventor. The latter explanation might partly account for the
obscurity of Frederick Winslow Taylor.
Frederick who, you ask? He was the father of "scientific
management," the idea of maximizing workplace efficiency by analyzing ...
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