Jon Smart

Myth : Adam Smith in the Wealth of Nations (1776) was the first to write about division of labour. There's just one problem: Adam Smith never set foot in a pin factory. In fact we need to go back 3 steps to Jean-Rodolphe Perronet in the 1740s, the only person in this story to have actually visited a pin factory!  Image of a pin factory, Diderot's Encyclopédie (1755) (1) Adam Smith (1776): The Economist Smith's description of a pin factory in The Wealth of Nations (1776) introduces the...

In this post we'll take a deeper dive into three broad themes of Systematic Management, introduced between 1870 to 1900: Specialisation, Centralisation and Data.

This is the 11th blog post in the  Organising for Outcomes series . It is helpful to understand where we’ve come from, how today’s ways...