Knowledge-worker productivity the biggest challenge

IEEE Engineering Management Review

Volumn 34, Issue 2, 2006, Pages 29-39

  Drucker, Peter F ^a  

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EID: 77949721642     PISSN: 03608581     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/emr.2006.1679053     Document Type: Article

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1. For work in the oldest knowledge profession-that is, in Medicine-Taylor's close contemporary William Osler (1849-19 19) did what Taylor did and at the same time in his 1892 book The Principles and Practice of Medicine (arguably the best textbook since Euclid's Geometry in the third century B.C.). Osler's work has rightly been called the application of Scientific Management to Medical Diagnosis. Like Taylor, Osler preached that there Is no "skill," there is only method.