Husband and wife Frank and Lillian Gilbreth pioneered scientific management principles that revolutionized how we think about workplace efficiency and human performance. Rather than accepting ...

Reprint (1st work). New York, N. Y. : Harper, 1911. Reprint (2nd work). New York, N. Y. : D. Van Nostrand, 1914.

This is quite recent. For more than a century, businesses often lost sight of the importance of creating value for others. Many firms pursued the idea of scientific management, i.e. imposing a system ...

The underlying problem is that we have been trained on, and most companies have been built upon, the "scientific management" principles from the early 1900's. These are the principles that were ...