The Principles of Scientific Management

At the same time, the one who won primarily, Frederick Winslow Taylor, talked about a chilling little book.

If you want a fun read that gives you nightmares, Taylor's book, The Principles of Scientific Management, is a quick read, but thank goodness.

His idea was that you'd have the smart people design the work and then you'd have the dumb, cheap people execute the work.

And you could manipulate the workers into doing exactly what you told them to do by paying them a little bit more and then giving them very precise instructions.

Hold that phrase, too, because we're going to meet another one later that operates exactly the same way, just on money instead of medicine.

One year later, in 1911, Frederick Winslow Taylor publishes The Principles of Scientific Management.

This book was voted in 2001 the most influential management book of the whole 20th century.

And Taylor's thesis was that workers are stupid.