Fayol on the functions and principles of management
The task did not get done because two people assigned it, or nobody did. Both look like laziness and neither is.
Coordination fell off the textbook list, and it is exactly the one clubs lack most. Fayol wrote down five acts — forecasting, organising, commanding, coordinating, controlling — and was the first to say administration can be learned.
In one column list every active member; beside each write one name — the person who gives them tasks. Where you cannot write any name, that is the problem; where you wrote two, ask both whether they know.
The full biography is on the public version →
Photograph, early 20th century. PD-old + PD-anon-70-EU — anonymous, early 20th century
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The same work written at length: what it claims and what its evidence is worth.
This text is freely available, so the links go straight to it rather than to a summary of it.
- Internet Archive — the 1949 English translation in the lending library
- Internet Archive — the French original, Administration industrielle et générale
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