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Ameri- cans love to do big things in a great hurry . They despise small things . A structural shop orders the supplies from a rolling mill . The big beams are promptly shipped . The angles and smaller pieces do not come for weeks or ...
Ameri- cans love to do big things in a great hurry . They despise small things . A structural shop orders the supplies from a rolling mill . The big beams are promptly shipped . The angles and smaller pieces do not come for weeks or ...
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For one thing they have obliterated from the toiler's list of maxims the first and most obnoxious one from the master's point of view- " The least service for the most pay . " If the theorists had done nothing more than that they would ...
For one thing they have obliterated from the toiler's list of maxims the first and most obnoxious one from the master's point of view- " The least service for the most pay . " If the theorists had done nothing more than that they would ...
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... division was in- creased from 4,377 in 1902 to 20,000 in 1909 . In the matter of car repairs the introduction of efficiency principles has worked wonders of economy . Simpler proc- esses for doing things have been devised .
... division was in- creased from 4,377 in 1902 to 20,000 in 1909 . In the matter of car repairs the introduction of efficiency principles has worked wonders of economy . Simpler proc- esses for doing things have been devised .
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Prejudice against inno- vation , the fixed habit and desire of master minds to do the same thing in the same old way , is the great- est obstacle to the introduc- tion of efficiency . Charles B. Going , who gave such valuable testi- ...
Prejudice against inno- vation , the fixed habit and desire of master minds to do the same thing in the same old way , is the great- est obstacle to the introduc- tion of efficiency . Charles B. Going , who gave such valuable testi- ...
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16 99 efficiency engineer would be if it took this time some- thing must be be wrong . And of course something was wrong . But railroad men of settled views are hard to convince and so are the heads of many indus- trial plants .
16 99 efficiency engineer would be if it took this time some- thing must be be wrong . And of course something was wrong . But railroad men of settled views are hard to convince and so are the heads of many indus- trial plants .
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