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Frederick Taylor, Henry Ford and Alfred Sloan among others showed how to run big organizations by delivering mass production through managing the supply chain, parsing and manufacturing demand, controlling employees as human resources, and steadily increasing efficiency through economies of scale.
FORBES: Connect
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And for want of a father the fifteen-year-old Princess had been born posthumously, months after a cricket ball fatally injured her father, Frederick, Prince of Wales in 1751 her brother William Henry, Duke of Gloucester gave her away.
NPR: Excerpt: Princesses
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Many management gurus, including Frederick Taylor, W. Edwards Deming (the founder of the quality movement), Henry Mintzberg and Bruce Henderson (the man behind the experience curve), were trained first as engineers.
ECONOMIST: Idea