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Management’s Three Eras: A Brief History

Harvard Business Review

Others – such as Frederick Winslow Taylor, Frank and Lillian Galbreth, Herbert R. Gantt – developed theories that emphasized efficiency, lack of variation, consistency of production, and predictability. Peter Drucker, one of the first management specialists to achieve guru status, was representative of this era.