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Systems Of Productivity
Various organizational tools, production methods and other ways towards efficiency appealed to the logical mind, but slowly it dawned to many that the basic concept of these systems were the industrial processes themselves, and just a reusing of repetitive, mechanical motions, repackaged for knowledge workers.
These systems, however logical and appealing they looked, were not aiding productivity even though it seemed like that on the surface.
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