Most people into productivity (including myself) had never heard of the most important breakthrough in the history of productivity or the person behind it.

I wanted to understand why the 50x shift happened in the first place and how to replicate it with knowledge work instead of just manual...

Frederick Winslow Taylor is the creator of the science of management. 

Peter Drucker attributes almost all the important management innovations in the last century:...

• For hundreds of years there had been no increase in the ability of workers to turn out goods or to move goods.
• Over the long run, productivity determines what governments societies adopt.
• If productivity drops for too long, revolutions happen.

In 1977, Frederick Winslow Taylor was ranked the #1 contributor ever to management thought and practice by a panel of business and economics historians beating out the likes of John Rockefeller, Andrew Carnegie, Alfred Sloan, Th...