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British historian

Person · Open Library

Works
30

Top works

  • Confessions of a horse dealer
  • Amiracle
  • Confessions of a Horse Dealer
  • Native life in the Andaman Islands
  • Table Setters Manual

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type
Person
Gender
Female
Origin
United States
Active from
1989-12-13
2000s2010s2020salternative popamericanaartist of the decade

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Listeners
16
Total plays
92

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Quotes

  • I think no book is more stimulating than the history of a devoted and successful life.
  • The art of management has been defined, "As knowing exactly what you want men to do, and then seeing that they do it in the best and cheapest way." No concise definition can fully describe an art, but the relations between employers and men form without question the most important part of this art. In considering the subject, therefore, until this part of the problem has been fully discussed, the remainder of the art may be left in the background.
  • That there is a difference between the average and the first class man is known to all employers, but that the first class man can do in most cases from two to four times as much is known to few, and is fully realized only by those who have made a thorough and scientific study of the possibilities of men.
  • The greater part of the systematic soldiering, however, is done by the men with the deliberate object of keeping their employers ignorant of how fast work can be done.So universal is soldiering for this purpose, or under any of the ordinary systems of compensating labor, who does not devote a considerable part of his time to studying just how slowly he can work and still convince his employer that he is going at a good pace.
  • After a workman has had the price per piece of the work he is doing lowered two or three times as a result of his having worked harder and increased his output, he is likely to entirely lose sight of his employer's side of the case and to become imbued with a grim determination to have no more cuts if soldiering can prevent it.
  • The writer feels that management is also destined to become more of an art, and that many of the, elements which are now believed to be outside the field of exact knowledge will soon be standardized tabulated, accepted, and used, as are now many of the elements of engineering.

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date of birth
1947-12-28
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