“The principal object of management should be to secure the maximum prosperity for the employer coupled with the maximum prosperity for each employee.”

— Frederick Winslow Taylor

Source: Principles of Scientific Management, 1911, p. 9; Lead paragraph ; Chapter 1: Fundamentals of Scientific Management.

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American mechanical engineer and tennis player 1856–1915

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