Frederick Taylor, the father of industrial engineering and factory floor time-studies, will be so proud.

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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.

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Where is the Frederick Taylor for the customer?

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Deming, Frederick Taylor and Max Weber.

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Frederick Taylor was right about that.

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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.

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Businesses have had no trouble figuring out what their own time is worth ever since Frederick Winslow Taylor published his Principles of Scientific Management a century ago.

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Factory owners have been doing such things for survival ever since Frederick W. Taylor invented time-and-motion studies more than a century ago.

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Investigators also traced the envelopes that contained the spore-laced letters to the Frederick, Maryland, area where Ivins lived, Taylor said.

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