Claims / C-2S0FCD471H

Conjecture

The bottleneck has flipped direction, not just location. Taylor's problem was that knowledge sat inside individual workers who would not share it, so management extracted it and enforced one best method. Part I's claim about now: companies struggle to get workers to act on their own initiative and use their individual knowledge, and their success depends on unlocking idiosyncratic knowledge rather than enforcing best practices, because in a complex environment difference is valuable. Then uniformity was the prize and variety the obstacle. Now variety is the prize.

Capital mechanisms

Evidence 1 passage

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    today companies are struggling to motivate their workers to act on their own initiative and use their individual knowledge and knowhow to benefit the company. Their success increasingly depends on being able to unlock the potential of their employees' idiosyncratic knowledge and skills, not enforcing best practices, be

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