"The planning, the precision of the pilots who with just a stopwatch and a compass landed gliders in the dark within 47 yards of the bridge is astonishing, even today.
Using just a stopwatch and a compass, the pilots had to land precisely and silently to surprise the German occupiers.
I use a stopwatch for sprints, if need be.
Got to have a stopwatch, for your splits when you are running.
It was a bit like Legoland.Management science's founding father was yet another engineer: Frederick Winslow Taylor, who wandered round factories with a stopwatch and a clipboard to measure workers' productivity.
Henning Wehn, who styles himself as "German comedy ambassador to the UK", tells jokes about mutual stereotypes while wearing a stopwatch on stage to reflect German punctiliousness.Britons have periodically admired German culture.
The book begins with a confession: "I am Scrooge with a stopwatch," he writes, the moment of truth dawning with the realisation that he is speed-reading through his son's bedtime stories.
EVER since the 1890s, when Frederick Winslow Taylor first wandered around the Midvale steelworks in Philadelphia with a stopwatch and a notepad, managers have searched for tools to improve the performance of their organisations.
Managers had to stop treating workers like cogs in a huge inhuman machine the idea at the heart of Frederick Taylor's stopwatch management and start treating them as brain workers.
IT IS a familiar format: the stopwatch on the website counts down the time remaining to make bids in the online auction.
He broke each job down into its individual motions, analyzed these to determine which were essential, and timed the workers with a stopwatch.
