The One Best Way: Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency
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- Synopsis
- landmark biography of Frederick Winslow Taylor--the man whose ceaseless quest for "the one best way"--changed the very texture of twentieth-century life. "In the past man has been first. In the future the System will be first." These are the words of Frederick Winslow Taylor, who in 1874, at the age of eighteen, abandoned his wealthy family's plans for him to attend Harvard and instead went to work as a lowly apprentice in a hot, dirty Philadelphia machine shop. As he rose through the ranks of management, he became the first efficiency expert, progenitor of all the stopwatch-clicking engineers who stalk the factories of the industrial world. Taylor's famous industrial philosophy--Scientific Management--influenced Ford's assembly line and Lenin's Soviet Russia. Management guru Peter Drucker has ranked him with Freud and Darwin as a maker of the modern world. The One Besf Way is the compelling story of this driven man-and a fascinating re-creation of the vanished era of steam and steel in which he lived and worked.
- Copyright:
- 1997
Book Details
- Book Quality:
- Excellent
- Book Size:
- 679 Pages
- ISBN-13:
- 9780670864027
- Publisher:
- N/A
- Date of Addition:
- 05/02/03
- Copyrighted By:
- Robert Kanigel
- Adult content:
- No
- Language:
- English
- Has Image Descriptions:
- No
- Categories:
- Nonfiction, Biographies and Memoirs, Business and Finance, Technology
- Submitted By:
- Larry Lumpkin
- Proofread By:
- Dr. Kenneth Cross
- Usage Restrictions:
- This is a copyrighted book.