Jon and Mark, I know you guys too well. The mention of accounting above gave me a shiver, probably the same one you experience with this issue. People aren't things. Accounting and people aren't apples and oranges; they're cheeseburgers and the cosmos -- impossibly different scales.

I refuse to rework F.W. Taylor. Fred was a prescient man for steady times. Man vs. Machine. But John Henry is dead. Today's world is up and down. Taylorism tells us what not to do. Beware of the One Best Way!

I don't remember what got me started here, but I am optimistic a new humanism is afoot in corporate/organizational America.