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Dehumanizing with AI, Automation, and Technical Optimization

The Practical Leader

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. Costs were soaring and projected to get worse.

McGregor 101
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Leading From Within: Shifting Ego, Ceding Control, and Rising Empathy

Great Leadership By Dan

These were coupled with Frederick Wilson Taylor’s popular scientific management theory that focused on financial compensation and the concept that workers’ motivation resulted from payment for volume-based repetitive task work. The consequence is a more flexible and fluid concept of leadership.

Fayol 191