Production is not the application of tools to materials, but logic to work.
Industrial technologies that allowed for increased mechanization in 19th-century armed forces also spurred Frederick Winslow Taylor to develop his 'Scientific Management' doctrine in Philadelphia steel mills.
We all know the place you're in has a big impact on how you feel. How you feel has an impact on the quality of work. Why wouldn't we put a lot of effort into making the place we work as efficient and productive and pleasant as possible?
Time is money, and the more breaks given, the less money that is made.
We don't have meetings unless absolutely necessary.
It became an exercise to reduce and reduce, but it makes it easier to build an easier for people to work with.
If a man can make typewriters better than anyone else, let us, in the name of common sense, keep him on the job of making typewriters.
The company calls it 'downsizing' or 'rightsizing.' My own informal "Name the Layoff" contest produced some other euphemisms: Retroactive Hiring Freeze, Resume Revision Days, Amway Opportunity Time, and Corporation Lite.
Slack is gratifying to work on in the same way that Flickr was. The mission is to make people's working lives simpler, more pleasant, more productive.
Scientific management promised to replace rules of thumb with accurate measurements.
I need to reach out to people who work for small to mid-sized companies, and help them identify and apply their strengths at work.
