But Taylor could still be misunderstood, and his time-and-motion studies were often misread as another episode of authoritarian workplace domination. Follett clarified Taylor's development by decisively shifting away from the boss's sovereignty. Once knowledge is transformed, the situation itself speaks. Authority seems to recede, taking up a station behind veils of systems of intelligibility so natural it seems unlikely they were ever actually created. In the law of the situation, the boss—who had previously insisted on loudly proclaiming his authority—now disappears from the syntax.