The One Best Way
Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency
$103.31
- Paperback
688 pages
- Release Date
14 January 2005
Summary
The definitive biography of the first “efficiency expert.“Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915) was the first efficiency expert, the original time-and-motion man-the father of scientific management, the inventor of a system that became known, inevitably enough, as Taylorism. “In the past the man has been first. In the future the System will be first,” he predicted boldly, and accurately. Taylor bequeathed to us, writes Robert Kanigel in this definitive biography, a clockwork world of tasks tim…
Book Details
| ISBN-13: | 9780262612067 |
|---|---|
| ISBN-10: | 0262612062 |
| Author: | Robert Kanigel |
| Publisher: | MIT Press Ltd |
| Imprint: | MIT Press |
| Format: | Paperback |
| Number of Pages: | 688 |
| Release Date: | 14 January 2005 |
| Weight: | 680g |
| Dimensions: | 197mm x 127mm x 32mm |
| Series: | The MIT Press |
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Critics Review
An expansive and illuminating biography of both the man and the gritty industrial world he inhabited.– The New York Times –
An expansive and illuminating biography of both the man and the gritty industrial world he inhabited.
—The New York TimesAbout The Author
Robert Kanigel
Robert Kanigel is Professor of Science Writing and Director of the Graduate Program in Science Writing at MIT and the author of Apprentice to Genius and The Man Who Knew Infinity. His articles, essays, and reviews have appeared in The New York Times Magazine, The New York Times Book Review, Wilson Quarterly, and Psychology Today.
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