He was born in 1856 in Philadelphia, USA and he was dead in 1915 for a pneumonia.
He was an American mechanical engineer who sought to improve industrial efficiency. He was one of the first management consultants. Taylor was one of the intellectual leaders of the Efficiency Movement and his ideas, broadly conceived, were highly influential in the Progressive Era.
I really like his job because he revolutionized the entire kind of work in Europe, making the system all different and growing up the efficiency. His work since today is a big input for how we look Public Administration.