As the literature will attest, traditional command-and-control management is largely derived from the principles of Frederick Taylor’s “scientific management.” Taylor’s scientific management approach was based in turn on the seventeenth century science of Newton that saw the world as a vast and magnificently ordered “clockwork universe” governed by the classical laws of nature. Scientific management is recognized as the prime mover in lifting the “working masses” in developed countries to new levels of affluence in the 20th century. In today’s.
