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Show Carrying It Too Far. "Scientific management, like any other good thing, may be carried to excess." The speaker was R." Marriott Thompson, the San Francisco scientific scienti-fic management expert. He continued, says the New York Tribune: "We scientific managers mustn't go as far as Hussler went. "Ilussler was the proprietor of a tremendous factory where scientific management had reduced the motions mo-tions of every hand from 800 to 17. Hussler attended a very fashionable wedding one day. a wedding where the ceremony was performed by a bishop, assisted by a dean and a canon, and in the most impressive part of the writ Hussler, overcome by l his scientific management ideas, rush-: rush-: ed up to the altar and pushed the bishop and canon rudely back. " 'Here, boys,' he said, 'one's quite enough for a little job like this.' " j |