The New Ruthless Economy: Work & Power in the Digital Age
by Simon Head · 14 Aug 2003 · 242pp · 245 words
descent linking our contemporary practices with those of mass production and scientific management—the twin foundations of modern American industrialism pioneered a century ago by Frederick Winslow Taylor and Henry Ford. To demonstrate this continuity I have included a chapter on the roots of mass production in America. After this time travel I
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a century old. The four pillars of industrialism—standardization, measurement, monitoring, and control—were already at work in the early 1900s when Henry Ford and Frederick Winslow Taylor created the organization and methods of the mass production plant. Today we are living in a new age of mass production and a new age
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of how the patterns of the past keep turning up in the present. These methods are virtually identical to those used a century ago by Frederick Winslow Taylor, who was, with Ford, the joint founding father of mass production in America. As with today's executives, Taylor and his fellow "scientific managers" wanted
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of scientific management. This principle of industrial organization dominates U.S. manufacturing to this day, and as its originator, Knudsen must rank with John Hall, Frederick Winslow Taylor, and Henry Ford in mass production's hall of fame. In Knudsen's first years at GM, "the appearance of the Chevrolet did not change
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we shall now see. 59 4 THE RISE OF THE R E E N G I N E E R S W HILE THE NAME FREDERICK WINSLOW TAYLOR still holds its prominent, if ambivalent position in any hall of fame of American business, it is safe to say that the name William Henry
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of this 200-year narrative. If time travel allowed us to look back from the perspective of 1913, we could see how Henry Ford and Frederick Winslow Taylor pulled together the technical and organizational achievements of the nineteenth century and welded them into a productive machine of commanding power and efficiency. Looking forward
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, Harpers Ferry Armory, p. 239. 6. Hounshell, From the American System, pp. 89, 161. 7. Ibid., pp. 47-50. 8. Ibid., pp. 91-123. 9. Frederick Winslow Taylor, Shop Management (New York, 1911), p. 110. 10. Ibid., p. 159. 11. See for example, David Nelson, Frederick W. Taylor and the Rise of Scientific
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Management (Madison, Wise., 1980), p. 174. 12. Frederick Winslow Taylor, Principles of Scientific Management (New York, 1911; paperback ed. 1967), pp. 48-19. 13. Frederick Winslow Taylor, "The Art of Cutting Metals," in Scientific Management, A Collection of the More Significant Articles Describing the Taylor
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and Process Redesign," Sloane Management Review (Summer 1990): 15. 35. Hammer and Champy, Reengineering the Corporation, p. 76. 36. Davenport, Process Innovation, p. 261. 37. Frederick Winslow Taylor, Shop Management (New York, 1911), p. 28. 38. Ibid., p. 51. 39. Ibid., pp. 17,257; Hammer and Champy, Reengineering the Corporation, p. 65. 40
The Little Black Book of Decision Making
by Michael Nicholas · 21 Jun 2017
– to one based on predictability. As scientific thinking became more widespread, it was inevitable that someone would apply it to business, and that person was Frederick Winslow Taylor, an American inventor who is credited by many management theorists today as being the father of modern business management principles. By the end of the
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reason, the implementation of new ideas must be difficult … Today, the default methodology used in most business decision making is still a direct consequence of Frederick Winslow Taylor's insights. Rational analysis, logic, business planning, problem solving and the like are so deeply embedded that they tend to be naturally assumed to be
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today is comparable to that of the best hot dog eaters in the world just before Takaru Kobayashi turned up. The scientific management principles of Frederick Winslow Taylor have become embedded so firmly that their implicit assumption, of predictability and order, is largely unchallenged – with the result that “rational” thinking dominates, along with
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Kobayashi turned up and rewrote the record books, one of the most notable factors was the shocked amazement with which everyone else greeted his feat. Frederick Winslow Taylor created the same reaction when he increased factory speed: people had to see it with their own eyes before they would believe that what he
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Murray hits a tennis serve or Nicola Benedetti plays her violin, or learned unconsciously, like almost all phobias. Creative leaps, such as those achieved by Frederick Winslow Taylor, David Cook, Reed Hastings, Tobaru Kobayashi or Dick Fosbury. Another popular approach to modelling the mind is to base it on a highly simplified view
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efficiency of the Industrial Revolution was honed over time, it offers no explanation of the source of Einstein or Edison's creativity, or of where Frederick Winslow Taylor's idea for his revolution came from in the first place. Something more is clearly necessary. Two Approaches to Decision Making “I began to realise
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do otherwise. The same thing could be said of Blockbuster before Netflix came on the scene, of the steel manufacturers who couldn't believe what Frederick Winslow Taylor had done, of the hot-dog eaters who never saw Takaru Kobayashi coming, and of the high jump competitors who dismissed or ignored it when
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. I've referred to several practical examples related to bounded awareness earlier in the book – including the case studies of the Challenger space shuttle disaster, Frederick Winslow Taylor, Takaru Kobayashi and Dick Fosbury – where problems or opportunities existed but most people literally couldn't see them. It is obviously very difficult to accurately
Arriving Today: From Factory to Front Door -- Why Everything Has Changed About How and What We Buy
by Christopher Mims · 13 Sep 2021 · 385pp · 112,842 words
that nothing in biology makes sense except in the light of evolution, and the same could be said of the relationship between the ideas of Frederick Winslow Taylor and the character of modern work. Yet the average person, and even many experts in the fields of manufacturing, supply chains, economics, and labor, don
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. But to understand any of that, we have to start with the man himself. Chapter 9 How a Management Philosophy Became Our Way of Life Frederick Winslow Taylor was born in 1856 in the Germantown neighborhood of Philadelphia, the only child of a Princeton-educated lawyer and an ardent abolitionist. He was raised
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14 (2016): 243–52. Chapter 8: The Little-Known, Rarely Understood Organizing Principle of Modern Work Interstate Commerce Commission: Robert Kanigel, The One Best Way: Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005), pp. 433–34. Lenin wrote that scientific management: Zenovia A. Sochor, “Soviet Taylorism Revisited,” Soviet
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-in-the-british-industrial-revolution-2. Chapter 9: How a Management Philosophy Became Our Way of Life ardent abolitionist: Robert Kanigel, The One Best Way: Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 2005), pp. 433–34. fit the first one perfectly: Simon Winchester, The Perfectionists (New York: HarperCollins
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, 2018). psychology of skilled workers: Frederick Winslow Taylor, The Principles of Scientific Management (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1911). patented in 1891: Willard Le Grand Bundy, workman’s time recorder, US Patent 452894A, patented
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, More Work for Mother: The Ironies of Household Technology from the Open Hearth to the Microwave (New York: Basic Books, 1995). missed the point entirely: Frederick Winslow Taylor, “An Answer to the Criticism,” The American Magazine 72 (1911). Chapter 10: Rime of the Long-Haul Trucker every year: Paul Schenck, “Top-25 Trailer
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the Cotton Gin,” National Archives and Records Administration, September 23, 2016, https://www.archives.gov/education/lessons/cotton-gin-patent. Taylor made the same error: Frederick Winslow Taylor, The Principles of Scientific Management (New York: Harper & Brothers, 1911). This trend was later confirmed: Will Evans, “Leaked Documents Show How Amazon Misled the Public
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for success of, 98–101; significance/anonymity of, 87–89; Six Sigma compared, 222; stressful working conditions, leading to, 88, 95, 97, 98, 213, 234; Frederick Winslow Taylor, life and ideas of, 87–90, 93–98; trucks/truck drivers and, 113; universal applicability claimed for, 224; worker empowerment and, 95–97, 229–30
The Cigarette: A Political History
by Sarah Milov · 1 Oct 2019
no-smoking policy, “cleaning costs were more than halved,” the president of an electrical components company explained. In terms that would have been familiar to Frederick Winslow Taylor as he observed pig iron handlers, the president continued: “one man does what two and a half would be doing if we still allowed smoking
Work: A History of How We Spend Our Time
by James Suzman · 2 Sep 2020 · 909pp · 130,170 words
a considerable amount of time to studying just how slowly he can work and still convince his employer he’s going at a good pace,’ Frederick Winslow Taylor explained to a meeting of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in June 1903. He was lecturing them about the perils of the ‘natural tendency
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Darwin’s friend and neighbour, Sir John Lubbock, 1st Baron Avebury, was the very model of a modern Victorian gentleman. And like his near contemporary, Frederick Winslow Taylor, he was also a very busy man. Lubbock, who died in 1913 at the age of seventy-nine, is now remembered by anthropologists and archaeologists
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, Van, how to read. Lubbock was not unusual in this regard. Like Darwin, Boucher de Perthes, Benjamin Franklin, Adam Smith, Aristotle and even the frenetic Frederick Winslow Taylor, Lubbock’s most important achievements were only possible because he was wealthy enough to afford to do exactly what he wanted to. If he’d
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substituted for another set of new, enduring useful skills. He did not, for example, imagine workplaces operating according to the ‘scientific management’ methods developed by Frederick Winslow Taylor, in which actual skills were superfluous to requirements. Nor for that matter did he imagine quite the extent to which technological developments would make the
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a considerable amount of time to studying just how slowly he can work and still convince his employer he’s going at a good pace,’ Frederick Winslow Taylor explained to a meeting of the American Society of Mechanical Engineers in June 1903. He was lecturing them about the perils of the ‘natural tendency
Make Your Own Job: How the Entrepreneurial Work Ethic Exhausted America
by Erik Baker · 13 Jan 2025 · 362pp · 132,186 words
cyclical fluctuations in output to boost overall utilization rates.22 The second key capital-stretching innovation was “scientific management,” popularized by the Philadelphia-based engineer Frederick Winslow Taylor. “Taylorism” gained traction in the steel industry in the 1890s and spread to other industrial sectors in the 1910s, with managers often implementing Taylor’s
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life paths opened by entrepreneurial activity remained constrained by the fundamental unit of capitalist social relations: the job. Chapter 2 Leading Change In january 1912, frederick winslow taylor arrived at the us house of Representatives for an intensive cross-examination at the hands of William B. Wilson, the chairman of the House Committee
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of budding American executives would have the chance to rediscover what it meant to be a man. “In the past the man has been first,” Frederick Winslow Taylor famously declared in Principles of Scientific Management, but it was his conviction that “in the future the system must be first.”71 This proclamation never
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, The Corporate Reconstruction of American Capitalism, 1890–1916: The Market, the Law, and Politics (Cambridge: Cambridge University Press, 1988). 23Robert Kanigel, The One Best Way: Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1997); Judith A. Merkle, Management and Ideology: The Legacy of the International Scientific Management Movement (Berkeley
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, 1912: A Classic of Management Literature Reprinted in Full from a Rare Public Document (New York: Taylor Society, 1926); Robert Kanigel, The One Best Way: Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency (Cambridge, MA: MIT Press, 1997); Hugh G. J. Aitken, Scientific Management in Action: Taylorism at Watertown Arsenal, 1908–1915 (Princeton
Team of Teams: New Rules of Engagement for a Complex World
by General Stanley McChrystal, Tantum Collins, David Silverman and Chris Fussell · 11 May 2015 · 409pp · 105,551 words
which we were operating, and within the carefully crafted attributes of our own organization. To understand the challenge, we’ll go to factory floors with Frederick Winslow Taylor and look back at the drive for efficiency that has marked the last 150 years, and how it has shaped our organizations and the men
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Sparta, the notion of top-down, rigidly predetermined, “scientific” management of behavior in the civilian sector is largely the legacy of the nineteenth-century Quaker Frederick Winslow Taylor. His influence on the way we think about doing things—from running corporations to positioning kitchen appliances—is profound and pervasive. For our Task Force
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as to argue, “No man in the history of American industry has made a larger contribution to genuine cooperation and juster human relations than did Frederick Winslow Taylor. He is one of the few creative geniuses of our time.” • • • In the decades since, Taylor’s star has dimmed. His treatment of workers has
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Principate 27 BC–AD 117 (Oxford, UK: Osprey Publishing, 2009), 44. What the forty-four-year-old Taylor unveiled . . . Robert Kanigel, The One Best Way: Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency (New York: Viking, 1997), 342–43. The norm was nine . . . Kanigel, The One Best Way, 314 People traveled across Europe
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, 254, 260. He instituted . . . Kanigel, The One Best Way, 260. At a ball bearing . . . Kanigel, The One Best Way, 304. at a pig iron plant . . . Frederick Winslow Taylor, The Principles of Scientific Management (1911; reprint, New York: Dover Publications, 1998), 21, 35. Under Taylor’s . . . Kanigel, The One Best Way, 225. managers did
Political Order and Political Decay: From the Industrial Revolution to the Globalization of Democracy
by Francis Fukuyama · 29 Sep 2014 · 828pp · 232,188 words
the City of New York, formed in 1870 to defend the professional integrity of its members.21 They would come to invoke the principles of Frederick Winslow Taylor’s “scientific management,” an approach that was seen as the cutting edge of modern business organization, as guidelines for a revamped American public sector.22
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could be studied empirically and subjected to scientific analysis. A similar intellectual revolution had been going on in the business world, with the rise of Frederick Winslow Taylor’s doctrine of “scientific management,” which used among other things time-and-motion studies to maximize the efficiency of factory operations. Many of the Progressive
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Study in Government (New York: Macmillan, 1900). 21. Skowronek, Building a New American State, p. 53; Knott and Miller, Reforming Bureaucracy, pp. 39–40. 22. Frederick Winslow Taylor, The Principles of Scientific Management (New York: Harper, 1911). See the discussion of Taylorism in Fukuyama, Trust, pp. 225–27. 23. Edmund Morris, The Rise
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The Radical Fund: How a Band of Visionaries and a Million Dollars Upended America
by John Fabian Witt · 14 Oct 2025 · 735pp · 279,360 words
the other. Since at least the first decade of the twentieth century, a generation of managerial administrators had proposed to reengineer the mass-production workplace. Frederick Winslow Taylor of Philadelphia’s Midvale Steel was the most famous of such managers, instituting stopwatch studies to standardize even the most complex industrial tasks into one
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Industrial and Labor Relations) (Cornell University Press, 1980), 42. 38. comfortable home: Fraser, Labor Will Rule, 114–45. Taylor: Robert Kanigel, The One Best Way: Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency (MIT Press, 1997); Mike Davis, “The Stop Watch and the Wooden Shoe: Scientific Management and the Industrial Workers of the
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became progressively more sophisticated. Methods like Bundy’s would be applied systematically across industries. The tipping point was the rise of scientific management, pioneered by Frederick Winslow Taylor. Like Mark Zuckerberg more than a century later, Taylor attended the prestigious boarding school Phillips Exeter Academy before attending – and dropping out of – Harvard. He
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