 What typified Taylorism?
COMPLEXITY AND HUMANITY We have all seen the images. Volunteers pitching in. People working day and night; coming up with the most ingenious, improvised solutions to everything from food and shelter to communications and security. Working together; patching up the fabric that is rent. Disaster, natural or otherwise, is a breakdown of systems. For a time, chaos reigns. For a time, what will happen in the next five minutes, five hours, and five days is unknown. All we have to rely on are our wits, fortitude, and common humanity Contemporary life is not chaotic, in the colloquial sense we apply to disaster zones.
 The ambition to measure and specify all human and material elements of the production system.
 Identifying opportunities and challenges to action and acting upon them.  Location of authority and practical capacity to act at the edges of the system.  Loosely-coupled systems.  The ambition to measure and specify all human and material elements of the production system.