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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. During the 1970s, the two became globally renowned as they traveled the world in service of clients that introduced the Situational Leadership ® Model to their organizations.