Efficiency Methods
An Introduction to Scientific Management

THE INSTALLATION OF EFFICIENCY METHODS 211 things to business that can be. . . . Therefore measure not dispatch by the times of setting, but by the advancement of the business. On the other hand true dispatch is a rich thing. For time is the measure of business as money is of wares, and business is bought at a dear hand where there is small dispatch. . . . Above all things, order and distribution and singling out of parts is the life of dispatch, so as the distribution be not too subtile. For ... he that does not divide will never enter well into business, and he that divideth too much will never come out of it clearly. To choose time is to save time, and an unseasonable motion is but beating the air. . . . There be three parts to business: the preparation, the debate or examina- tion, and the perfection. Whereof, if you look for dispatch, let the middle one only be the work of many, and the first and last the work of few. . . . The proceeding upon somewhat conceived in writing doth for the most part facilitate dispatch.”