http://100lbsofdynamite.com/2006/05/23/hard-facts/ Just another WordPress weblog Thu, 04 Dec 2008 18:22:17 +0000 http://wordpress.org/?v=2.6.3 http://100lbsofdynamite.com/2006/05/23/hard-facts/#comment-39 James Wed, 24 May 2006 13:57:05 +0000 http://blog.digitalanalog.net/index.php/archives/2006/05/23/hard-facts/#comment-39 There was a great article in this month's Atlantic magazine about management theory - written by someone from a a philosphy background who had a management consultancy for years, then got around to reading "the literature" - talks about how theres always a fudge factor in management "science" - like the first guy who timed a bunch of railroad workers to compute how much work they could do in a day, and then lopped off 40% for "breaks and lunch etc". Great science. Good read: http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/prem/200606/stewart-business There was a great article in this month’s Atlantic magazine about management theory - written by someone from a a philosphy background who had a management consultancy for years, then got around to reading “the literature” - talks about how theres always a fudge factor in management “science” - like the first guy who timed a bunch of railroad workers to compute how much work they could do in a day, and then lopped off 40% for “breaks and lunch etc”. Great science.
Good read: http://www.theatlantic.com/doc/prem/200606/stewart-business

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