What is "One Best Way"? Is it on the Wire? Yes it's on the wire. It's basically the new Walmart bible. Everything must be done according to this guide and you can not deviate. It basically dictates how everything is supposed to be done at Walmart.

In The One Best Way, Robert Kanigel has written a definitive and illuminating biography of Taylor. Kanigel paints a multifaceted portrait of a highly complex man and depicts him with all his faults and virtues. In doing so, he successfully portrays the humanity of an individual so frequently reduced to a caricature of the devil incarnate.

Robert Kanigel’s compelling chronicle takes Taylor from privileged Philadelphia childhood to factory floor to international fame, telling the story of a paradigmatic American figure whose influence would be felt from the New Deal to Soviet Russia and remains pervasive—even insidious—today. Who Is Government?

2011年8月16日 · The world's first and most famous preacher of the efficiency gospel was Frederick Winslow Taylor, born on March 20, 1856, into a prominent Quaker family in an upper-middle-class suburb of Philadelphia.His ideas permeate our thinking to this day, a classic example of a thinker of whom Justice Oliver Wendell Holmes wrote, "a hundred years after he...

2005年1月14日 · Robert Kanigel's compelling chronicle takes Taylor from privileged Philadelphia childhood to factory floor to international fame, telling the story of a paradigmatic American figure whose influence would be felt from the New Deal to Soviet Russia and remains pervasive—even insidious—today.

1997年5月1日 · F W Taylor created the "one best way" paradigm, where he sliced jobs into components, engineered the pieces for maximum efficiency, then reconstituted them into a superior, more efficient version of the original. "Taylorism" became the bane of labor at the same time it was embraced by management.

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.

“Whether cooperation, the differential plan, or some other form of piece-work be chosen in connection with elementary rate-fixing, as the best method of working, there are certain fundamental facts and principles which must be recognized and incorporated in any system of management, before true and lasting success can be attained; and most of ...