Taylorism is often confused with Lean, but they are fundamentally different approaches to work, leadership, and respect for people.
Taylorism refers to early “scientific management” approaches that treated work as something to be optimized for people rather than with them.
Posts included here examine time-and-motion studies, command-and-control thinking, and why Lean is often misunderstood when it’s confused with Taylorism instead of grounded in respect for people.
