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Business Does Not Need the Humanities — But Humans Do

Harvard Business Review

Whereas the former long for approval and try to be perfect, the latter favor data and do not hesitate to try things out. They move fast and break things, and if what they broke turns out to be of value, they apologize and pledge to do better next time. Failure, after all, is learning in disguise. Isn’t it? Not always.

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HBR Lives Where Taylorism Died

Harvard Business Review

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. What had been seen as a progressive, "scientific" approach was now cast as mechanical and demeaning.