Harvard Business Review

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Traditional mass manufacturing is based on principles of “Scientific Management” that date back to the 19th century. Managers hold virtually all decision-making authority. Here’s a simplified description of the difference between the two approaches. Workers specialize in simple, highly routinized operations.

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Harvard Business Review

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Drucker Forum 2018 This article is one in a series related to the 10th Global Peter Drucker Forum , with the theme “ Management. It is impossible to attend a management or technology conference these days without hearing some version of that call for more humanism in tech. We turn into what we use.

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Harvard Business Review

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Harvard Business Review editors go to work every day on articles they hope will make their mark on the history of management thinking. Coincidentally, the site where they go to work is itself of historical importance to management — because of a fight that is still alive today. It's a familiar story with management ideas.

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