CHAPTER THREE
Management: A Look Backward and a Look Forward
AMONG THE FORERUNNERS OF management in the nineteenth century was Robert Owen, who is still outstanding in the depth of his insight and the courage of his convictions. He is still, a hundred and fifty years after his model experiment in New Lanark—the bankrupt Scottish textile mill which he turned in a few years into a highly successful business and into a model of human relations and plant organization—one of the most “progressive” managers and well up with the best of them today. But there was also Saint-Simon, the Frenchman, Owen’s contemporary, who first saw the importance of the ...
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