Development McGregor Productivity Taylorism 
Harvard Business Review
OCTOBER 23, 2012
In 1960, 11 years after he founded the company that became Circuit City, my father Sam Wurtzel was reading a book he couldn't put down: The Human Side of Enterprise , by MIT professor Douglas McGregor. The next morning, he called McGregor's office and asked for a meeting with him. It was also central to how Sam built Circuit City.
Harvard Business Review
JULY 30, 2014
Only glimmers of what was to come showed up in the work of thinkers such as Adam Smith, with his insight that the division of labor would increase productivity. Along with the new means of production, organizations gained scale. Others – such as Frederick Winslow Taylor, Frank and Lillian Galbreth, Herbert R.
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