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Cal Newport on knowledge work, Part 2: “Slow productivity”

HBS Managing the Future of Work

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We Go Too Far Away From Frederick Winslow Taylor

Harvard Business School's evolution was strongly influenced by Frederick Winslow Taylor and the notion of scientific management. Peter Drucker then picked up on in the 50s that, oh, that is not going to work here. So it's, we went too far away from Taylor. We need a little bit of that thinking on how we organize work, but not too much of that thinking.

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