Frederick Winslow Taylor
1856 – 1915 · United States · Business, Engineering
Scientific management — the origin of every productivity metric and its discontents.
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- Henry Ford
1863 – 1947 · Business, Engineering
Scientific management supplies the time-study logic of the moving assembly line.
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