Products, Scientific Management and Team

Dehumanizing with AI, Automation, and Technical Optimization

The Practical Leader

SEPTEMBER 2, 2020

In the early 1900s, Frederick Taylor, used “Scientific Management” principles to make the new production lines more efficient. Workers became cogs in the machine; shut off their minds, shut their mouths, and did what engineers and managers told them to do. They had a massive turnover problem.

McGregor

McGregor Scientific Management Taylorism Taylor

Leading From Within: Shifting Ego, Ceding Control, and Rising Empathy

Great Leadership By Dan

SEPTEMBER 5, 2017

The shift marks a significant move away from Henri Fayol's autocratic “command-and-control” type management theories and methodologies which have been in vogue since the early 1900s. In tandem, the new leadership styles are also able to generate much-needed boosts to productivity levels yielding better corporate results.

Fayol

Fayol Press Release Scientific Management Drucker

Three Reasons Why The Situational Leadership® Approach Is Effective

The Center For Leadership Studies

JUNE 8, 2023

From Frederick Winslow Taylor and Scientific Management to Chris Argyris and Immaturity-Maturity Theory, the Situational Leadership ® process integrates the contributions of the most prominent researchers of leadership and human motivation. It helps leaders drive productivity, enhance employee engagement and retain key talent!

Situational Leadership

Situational Leadership Leadership Argyris Influence

Management Styles

Strategy Driven

OCTOBER 7, 2016

Organizations should coordinate management skills into its overall corporate strategy, in order to satisfy customer needs profitably, draw together the components for practical strategies and implement strategic requirements to impact the business. This is my review of how management styles have evolved.

Management

Management Hostile Takeover Management by Objectives Objective

The Big Picture of Business – Corporate Cultures Reflect Business Progress and Growth.

Strategy Driven

DECEMBER 18, 2015

Organizations should coordinate management skills into its overall corporate strategy, in order to satisfy customer needs profitably, draw together the components for practical strategies and implement strategic requirements to impact the business. This is my review of how management styles have evolved.

Hostile Takeover

Hostile Takeover Management by Objectives Objective Scientific Management

Give Your Team the Freedom to Do the Work They Think Matters Most

Harvard Business Review

SEPTEMBER 10, 2018

Since at least the time of Frederick Taylor, the father of “scientific management,” control has been central to corporate organization: Control of costs, of prices, of investment and—not least—of people. When a new project comes in, the manager does not devise a plan to complete it.

Team

Team Scientific Management Taylorism Taylor

Stop Trying to Control People or Make Them Happy

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 3, 2014

Whether you’ve heard of them or not, two gurus from the early 20 th century still dominate management thinking and practice — to our detriment. It has been more than 100 years since Frederick Taylor, an American engineer working in the steel business, published his seminal work on the principles of scientific management.

Taylorism

Taylorism Taylor Mayo Cooper

Create a Strategy That Anticipates and Learns

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Using machine-learning tools, for example, data that currently exists in different enterprise systems and diverse external sources (production, supply chain, market, customer trend, financial and economic data) can be ingested and mashed together to reveal meaningful patterns and highlight gaps in markets. It’s an entirely different animal.

Strategy

Strategy Scenario Planning Scientific Management Supply Chain

Create a Strategy That Anticipates and Learns

Harvard Business Review

OCTOBER 6, 2014

Using machine-learning tools, for example, data that currently exists in different enterprise systems and diverse external sources (production, supply chain, market, customer trend, financial and economic data) can be ingested and mashed together to reveal meaningful patterns and highlight gaps in markets.

Strategy

Strategy Scenario Planning Scientific Management Supply Chain

It’s the Company’s Job to Help Employees Learn

Harvard Business Review

JULY 18, 2016

When Frederick Taylor published his pioneering principles of scientific management in 1912, the repetitive and mundane nature of most jobs required employees to think as little as possible. We suggest starting with three things: Select for it.

Long-term

Long-term Short-term Open-book Scientific Management

Business Does Not Need the Humanities — But Humans Do

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 2, 2018

As the girl told it to Osnos, “During the game in which I was playing the program, everyone around us was taking sides: Team Human and Team Machine.” It is impossible to attend a management or technology conference these days without hearing some version of that call for more humanism in tech.

Drucker

Drucker Mayo Technology Globalization

HBR Lives Where Taylorism Died

Harvard Business Review

NOVEMBER 16, 2012

Back in 1908, the Army learned of a clever engineer — Frederick Taylor , subsequently dubbed "the father of scientific management" — and his success in making steel manufacturing more productive in Pennsylvania. Also familiar, however, is the Watertown Arsenal's lesson in how management thinking can fail.

Taylorism

Taylorism Taylor Committee Engineering

Don’t Set Process Without Input from Frontline Workers

Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2015

Taylor , the founder of scientific management who died 100 years ago. ” Mostly looking at individual workers, he figured out that standardization and optimization of work processes could lead to astonishing improvement in productivity. It began with Frederick W. Insight Center. The Future of Operations.

Process

Process Banking Compliance Bureaucracy

The History of the Situational Leadership® Framework

The Center For Leadership Studies

JUNE 8, 2023

The Situational Leadership ® framework was the product of over 50 years of pioneering research in leadership development and organizational behavior. Scientific Management An industrial engineer in the early 1900s, Frederick Winslow Taylor was obsessed with productivity enhancement. Was the manager effective?

Situational Leadership

Situational Leadership Hersey Blanchard Argyris

Why Corporate Social Responsibility Doesn’t Work

Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2014

The same kinds of dynamics probably play out among lower-level managers too, Roussanov says in this Wharton video. What we''ve really done is internalize Frederick Winslow Taylor''s century-old concept of scientific management for factory workers. We have become our own productivity police.

CAPEX

CAPEX Scientific Management Taylorism Taylor

Leadership Digital

Dehumanizing with AI, Automation, and Technical Optimization

Leading From Within: Shifting Ego, Ceding Control, and Rising Empathy

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Three Reasons Why The Situational Leadership® Approach Is Effective

Management Styles

The Big Picture of Business – Corporate Cultures Reflect Business Progress and Growth.

Give Your Team the Freedom to Do the Work They Think Matters Most

Stop Trying to Control People or Make Them Happy

Create a Strategy That Anticipates and Learns

Create a Strategy That Anticipates and Learns

It’s the Company’s Job to Help Employees Learn

Business Does Not Need the Humanities — But Humans Do

HBR Lives Where Taylorism Died

Don’t Set Process Without Input from Frontline Workers

The History of the Situational Leadership® Framework

Why Corporate Social Responsibility Doesn’t Work

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