Frederick Winslow Taylor (1856-1915) utilized a “scientific management” system that enabled his clients (and those who would soon indirectly apply his methods) to perform at a more profitable and productive rate. Taylor, who was a self-proclaimed progressive, demonstrated to those who sought out his services exactly  “how to cut waste and increase productivity…by breaking down work activities…into a sequence of mechanical steps and using stopwatches to measure the time it took each worker to perform each step in a task.” Furthermore “Taylor established detailed performance standards” such as a monetary incentive “for each job classification, specifying how fast people doing each job should work and when they should rest.” According to Taylor such a system needed to be implanted due to man’s natural sluggishness without incentives, “Men will not do an extraordinary day’s work for an ordinary day’s pay.” He also maintained that, with such a system in place, strikes would be eliminated.