It is only through enforced standardization of methods, enforced adoption of the best implements and working conditions, and enforced cooperation tha… - Frederick Winslow Taylor

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

Perhaps the most prominent single element in modern scientific management is the task idea. The work of every workman is fully planned out by the management at least one day in advance, and each man receives in most cases complete written instructions, describing in detail the task which he is to accomplish, as well as the means to be used in doing the work. And the work planned in advance in this way constitutes a task which is to be solved, as explained above, not by the workman alone, but in almost all cases by the joint effort of the workman and the management. This task specifies not only what is to be done but how it is to be done and the exact time allowed for doing it.

I think no book is more stimulating than the history of a devoted and successful life.