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Why Jargon Has Prevailed

Thoughts on consultants, MBAs, and the management "scientists."
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Why Jargon Has Prevailed
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By trade, Frederick Winslow Taylor was an American mechanical engineer, but heโ€™s not renowned for that. Long before the Bobs in Office Space, Taylor was arguably the worldโ€™s first efficiency expert. In the late nineteenth century, he spent a great deal of time watching factory workers perยญforming manual tasks. Taylor wasnโ€™t bored, nor was he a voyeur. He was working, recording everything he saw with his stopwatch. He was on a quest to find the one best way to do each job. That information would further his ultimate goal: to improveโ€”in fact, to maximizeโ€”economic efficiency, especially labor productivity. This became the basis for his theory of scientific management.

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