Letter to Kempton P.A. Taylor enclosing a copy of a letter written to Henry Shelton, the Secretary of the Society to Promote the Science of Management

              you learn more with a poor start than with no start at all. In illustration of this, he quoted the men who spend months over the drafting board, endeavoring to settle every question on paper. He said he found that men saved time and learned more by making a start, and his later experience had convinced him that it was unwise to let a man spend more than a week or two weeks on a drafting board, except in unusual cases. There is a principle involved here with I have used a number of times, and made real progress, where prior to that I was endeavoring to be sure that I had everything right before going ahead. This might seem off hand to be an opposite bit of policy to the principle just set forth above, but it isn't.

I feel that Mr. Taylor was one of the big men of this generation, but perhaps it will be the next generation who will realize it.

Yours as ever,
Signed--Henry P. Kendall.