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I guess the real question is why the fuck are management courses still founded in Taylorism?

Taylorism was known to only work on short interventions at the time it was created, and it's known to create all sorts of problems (one being absolutely demotivating everybody).

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You know that high you get when your software finally works, with all the little cogs churning away and producing something much bigger than any one of them as a system effect? That, but with people. Feeling powerful feels good.

Only if you have zero empathy for human beings and the consequences of your actions.

People are not cogs.

  > I guess the real question is why the fuck are management courses still founded in Taylorism?

im not sure if its just management courses, ive been under technical managers that think the same way... they like numbers and measurables... maybe to them its like code coverage and performance metrics... but with people...

Are you familiar with the streetlight effect?

That is why.

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