Walter Dill Scott

Person · Open Library

Born

1869

Works

38

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Music · MusicBrainz

Type

Person

Gender

Male

Origin

Japan

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Recent publications · Crossref

5 total works indexed

1. Common method biases in behavioral research: A critical review of the literature and recommended remedies.

   · 2003 · cited 67,744x

2. Gene set enrichment analysis: A knowledge-based approach for interpreting genome-wide expression profiles

   · 2005 · cited 48,841x

3. SciPy 1.0: fundamental algorithms for scientific computing in Python

   · 2020 · cited 36,510x

4. Going deeper with convolutions

   · 2015 · cited 32,876x

5. The Iron Cage Revisited: Institutional Isomorphism and Collective Rationality in Organizational Fields

   · 1983 · cited 31,523x

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Quotes

• “An efficient and contented employee has a positive money value to any employer. To hold him and keep him efficient, his personal comfort and needs should be considered in every way not detrimental to the company's interests.”
• “Mental attitude is more important than mental capacity”
• “Man has been called the reasoning animal but he could with greater truthfulness be called the creature of suggestion. He is reasonable, but he is to a greater extent suggestible.”
• “The senses (the organs of sight, sound, taste, smell, temperature, and touch) are the guardians of the body, and whatever appears good to these sentinels is instantly desired, and ordinarily such things tend to the preservation and furtherance of the welfare of the body, but we choose them simply because they appear pleasing and not for ulterior ends.”
• “Success or failure in business is caused more by mental attitude even than by mental capacity.”
• “During the last few decades the business world has brought about a complete revolution in the methods of manufacturing, distributing and selling goods. That the revolution is beneficial and important no businessman will deny. But however important'these things? are, the business man realizes that his most pressing problem is methods of influencing and handling men rather than things:”

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