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Book Review – The Mind at Work: Valuing the intelligence of the American Worker

Deming Institute

Rose has traveled the country and conducted countless interviews that he has then brought to life in a series of compelling books. Frederick Taylor’s (1856-1915) Scientific Management depicted factory workers as uncouth lumps of clay to be shaped to fit industrial ends.

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The History of the Situational Leadership® Framework

The Center For Leadership Studies

Scientific Management An industrial engineer in the early 1900s, Frederick Winslow Taylor was obsessed with productivity enhancement. This study examined thousands of managers across industries with two basic parameters: Was the manager successful? Did the team or group the manager led hit their productivity targets?