William Henry Leffingwell, Date of Birth, Place of Birth, Date of Death
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author, automated offices
Date of Birth: 14-Jul-1876
Place of Birth: Oxford, England, United Kingdom
Date of Death: 19-Dec-1934
Profession: economist
Zodiac Sign: Cancer 
About William Henry Leffingwell
- William Henry Leffingwell (June 4, 1876 - December 19, 1934) was an American organizational theorist, president of W.
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- Leffingwell, Inc., New Jersey, management author, and the founder of National Office Management Association. Leffingwell was born in Oxford County, Ontario to Wendell Phillips and Mary Catherine (Edwards) Leffingwell, both Americans.
- He was trained as a stenographer and "applied scientific management to the office." Throughout the 1920s, Leffingwell was a key figure in the Taylor Society. Along with F.W.
- Taylor, Lyndall Urwick, and others, Leffingwell was subjected to attack by Harry Braverman in Labor and Monopoly Capital: The Degradation of Work in the Twentieth Century (1974).
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