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> These persons surely had theories of management for their assets, which undoubtedly would include slaves and indentured servants. Yes, exactly. I'm sure the
by KineticLensman 5y ago
> These persons surely had theories of management for their assets, which undoubtedly would include slaves and indentured servants.
Yes, exactly. I'm sure the Egyptian pharaohs who built the pyramids a thousand years earlier had some theories regarding management.
- jasonwatkinspdx 5y agoNeolithic humans made constructions that took a staggering amount of manpower over a very prolonged time. The story of how such things come to be is complex and has many variations over place and time. There's no "first management theorists" just humans and human society learning and evolving as it has since before we were even human. I find the concept of this article not just pointless but somewhat obnoxious in projecting a conceptual parallel between roman aristocratic slave holders and modern employment relations. Both have their pathologies but we shouldn't blend them into one category imo.
- yetanotherloser 5y agoI'm really pretty sure they did. In fact I'd go one step further and say a lot of Old and Middle Kingdom society WAS a peculiar kind of management theory. Those pyramids weren't built by slaves either. There is plenty of managerial advice in their literature. They even invented the careers-advice text... (be a scribe, my son; it's indoor work with no heavy lifting)