The One Best Way
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The One Best Way
| Full title | The One Best Way: Frederick Winslow Taylor and the Enigma of Efficiency |
|---|---|
| Author | Robert Kanigel |
| Published | 1997 |
| Pages | 680 |
| Recommended | Once |
| Buy | Amazon |
| Why it’s on the list | Robert Kanigel’s definitive biography of Frederick Winslow Taylor — the stopwatch, the pig-iron experiments at Bethlehem, the Congressional hearings — and of the idea that there is one best way to do any piece of work. Kanigel is unusually willing to examine what the doctrine cost the people it was applied to. |
Where I heard about it
- A reply to @WillManidis — named as “The One Best Way by Frederick Taylor” in answer to his question “what is the single best book you can read that will explain an entire industry?” in a thread on X, June 2025. The full recovered list lives on what is the single best book… (tweet).
About this edition
The book is about Taylor, the origin point for management as a discipline; the author is Robert Kanigel.
Connections
- what is the single best book… (tweet) — the thread this came out of; the full recovered list lives there.
- Taylorism · Scientific Management — the doctrine this is the biography of.
- Efficiency — the enigma in the subtitle.
What links here
Curated by Kyle Harrison. Organized by Claude. Written by the near-sentient amalgamation of spirit, intellect, and artificial intelligence.