One summer night in August, 1935, a young Soviet miner named Alexei
Stakhanov managed to extract 102 tonnes of coal in a single shift. This
was nothing short of extraordinary (according to Soviet planning, the
official average for a single shift was seven tonnes).
Stakhanov shattered this norm by a staggering 1,400%. But the sheer
quantity involved was not the whole story. It was Stakhanov’s
achievement as an individual that became the most meaningful aspect of
this episode. And the work ethic he embodied then – which spread all
over the USSR – has been invoked by managers in the west ever since.
https://theconversation.com/how-a-soviet-miner-from-the-1930s-helped-create-todays-intense-corporate-workplace-culture-155814
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