Sublime
An inspiration engine for ideas
Gavin Nelson
nelson.co
American industrialist Frederick Taylor, realized that in a system of factory production where machines were expensive and heavy but humans were cheap and malleable, it was more efficient to arrange the workers around the machines than to arrange the machines around the workers.
Todd Rose • Dark Horse: Achieving Success Through the Pursuit of Fulfillment
Linear's secret to building beloved B2B products - - YouTube
youtube.comSix years before we installed it, I experimented with the moving final assembly line which is now the crowning touch of American mass production. Before the eyes of Henry Ford, I worked out on a blackboard the figures that became the basis for his $5 day and the overwhelming proof of the present economic truism that high wages beget lower-priced ma
... See moreCharles E. Sorensen • My Forty Years With Ford (Great Lakes Books Series)
In an office, Ivy Lee was meeting with Charles M. Schwab, who was at the time one of the richest men in the world and chairman of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation, one of the largest shipbuilding steel companies in the world. Schwab was obsessed with finding ways to increase his company’s efficiency and, in his quest, decided to hire Ivy Lee, a cons
... See morePacky McCormick • SkillMagic: Not Boring Investment Memo
