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Taylor and Weber brought statistics to management. Unfortunately their concepts often also engendered an unhealthy and unproductive chasm between the new management positions it implied and the workers it no longer asked to think. [...]

Organizations are notoriously hierarchical or top-down given principally two age-old models; the family and the military. Both are instructive models in their own right. We’ve just learned the wrong lessons from them. [...]