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Knowing some authors, I suspect this author didn't write: "Roman slaveowners were the first management theorists." Editors frequently write such things; and tha
by calibraxis 12y ago
Knowing some authors, I suspect this author didn't write: "Roman slaveowners were the first management theorists." Editors frequently write such things; and that statement sounds extremely unlikely. (Otherwise, I enjoyed this article.)
- duaneb 12y agoYea, especially when some of our earliest texts are of managers. More accurate might be "earliest civilization in which we can find a wide breadth of insight into justification, rationale, and advice for managing a labor force. What have we learned since then?" EDIT: Hell, one of the earliest hallmarks of "civilization" is social stratification. I'm betting people have been theorizing about how to use human labor (subjugated or otherwise compelled) far before the written word came about.