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Management’s Three Eras: A Brief History

Harvard Business Review

By the early 1900’s, the term “management” was in wide use, and Adam Smith’s ideas came into their own. Others – such as Frederick Winslow Taylor, Frank and Lillian Galbreth, Herbert R. Peter Drucker, one of the first management specialists to achieve guru status, was representative of this era. Townes, and Henry L.

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The Management Thinker We Should Never Have Forgotten

Harvard Business Review

Berwick’s talk began by deftly comparing Frederick Winslow Taylor and W. Edwards Deming : the former an industrialist who equated machines and human beings (both to be managed for maximum output), the latter a humanist who saw the individual as internally motivated to do good, meaningful work.

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