author
Lewis K. Urquhart
A practical voice from early 20th-century business writing, this management author is best known for clear, hands-on advice about how work gets organized and improved. His books focus less on theory and more on what managers can actually do day to day.
1 Audiobook
The Knack of Managing
by Lewis K. Urquhart, Herbert Watson
About the author
Lewis K. Urquhart is known for writing about management and industrial operations. His best-known book, The Knack of Managing, was published by Factory and Industrial Management in 1931 and later reissued, helping preserve his work for modern readers.
Library and ebook records also link him to The Materials Handling Case Book, a later work coauthored with Carroll W. Boyce. Across the available records, his writing appears rooted in practical business problems: planning, supervision, efficiency, and the everyday challenges of running organizations.
Reliable biographical details about his personal life are scarce in the sources I found, so it is safest to remember him through his work: a straightforward business writer whose books aimed to make management more usable and concrete.