“WWI By Henry Gantt”

“We would not have won the war without the assistance from Europe.”

Our fumbling in war preparations seems to indicate that the great campaign for efficiency, which has been waged so assiduously, has not accomplished for us all we had led ourselves to believe. That we have increased individual efficiency and profit-making efficiency, and perhaps other kinds of efficiency, is not to be denied. That we have attained a high degree of national efficiency is nowhere indicated. It took the shock of a great war to arouse us to the realization that our great prosperity was due to something other than our productive efficiency.

The aim of our efficiency has not been to produce goods, but to harvest dollars. If we could harvest more dollars by producing fewer goods, we produced the fewer goods.

. . .the production of goods was always secondary to the securing of dollars.

In the great emergency created by the war, our need was not for dollars but for goods, and people who had been trained for the seeking of dollars were in most cases not at all fitted for the producing of goods.”