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MAY 5, 2010

This post is part of a series called “Evidence-Based Management.” Scientific management (or Taylorism) is the first major theory of management. However, Taylor’s effect on management thinking is undeniable. Leadership evidence-based management taylor'

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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. Michael Steffen / EyeEm/Getty Images. Control, even a perception of it, can be comforting.

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Harvard Business Review

JUNE 26, 2015

But the world’s best organizations are calling a truce: They are learning how to turn the potentially destructive power of process and procedure to everyone’s benefit. How did the war start, and why is it important? Taylor , the founder of scientific management who died 100 years ago.

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The Center For Leadership Studies

JUNE 8, 2023

Scientific Management An industrial engineer in the early 1900s, Frederick Winslow Taylor was obsessed with productivity enhancement.

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Harvard Business Review

AUGUST 19, 2013

With Frederick''s Taylor invention of scientific management in the 1880s, and its subsequent assimilation into what we now consider modern management, organizations have used logic and rationality to the eliminate waste, to seek efficiency, and to transfer human knowledge to tools and processes. IT management'

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Harvard Business Review

APRIL 25, 2014

–Andy O''Connell The Productivity Police The Secret History of Life-Hacking Pacific Standard Ever wonder why "life hacking" is such a thing, why people get so excited about little ideas for how to be happier and more productive at work? We have become our own productivity police.

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Harvard Business Review

JANUARY 26, 2012

Below are five pointers to frame and guide the conversation for technology geeks and practitioners to champion the use of auto-analytics in their businesses: Auto-analytics can be understood within the tradition of scientific management. Management science has its roots in experimentation and productivity improvement.

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