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... subordinates , now managers , under the circumstances contain a sting . mental atmosphere in which such men live deadens and em- bitters ; it serves to breed disloyalty , possibly anarchy , cer- tainly not efficiency . The What men in ...
... subordinates , now managers , under the circumstances contain a sting . mental atmosphere in which such men live deadens and em- bitters ; it serves to breed disloyalty , possibly anarchy , cer- tainly not efficiency . The What men in ...
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... subordinates . As the head of a personal enterprise in which production , sales , accounts , and finance are necessary activities , the executive can gain as much from standardization as in the operation of his factory's machinery . The ...
... subordinates . As the head of a personal enterprise in which production , sales , accounts , and finance are necessary activities , the executive can gain as much from standardization as in the operation of his factory's machinery . The ...
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... subordinates it is neces- sary to comprehend their duties . The executive sees the duties of his subordinates , not as they see them , but in the bigger relation of all the different cogs and wheels to the vast business machine . The ...
... subordinates it is neces- sary to comprehend their duties . The executive sees the duties of his subordinates , not as they see them , but in the bigger relation of all the different cogs and wheels to the vast business machine . The ...
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... subordinates - as to have leisure to do the big thing just above . A First Aid to the Memory - the Memo The first rule for economy of time and effort is this : Keep the big things in mind , the details on paper . The man who does not ...
... subordinates - as to have leisure to do the big thing just above . A First Aid to the Memory - the Memo The first rule for economy of time and effort is this : Keep the big things in mind , the details on paper . The man who does not ...
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... subordinates who do not think.- EDWARD B. BUTLER , President of Butler Brothers . John D. Rockefeller's Growth as an Executive The business man needs not merely an expanded capacity for handling detail personally but , as he advances ...
... subordinates who do not think.- EDWARD B. BUTLER , President of Butler Brothers . John D. Rockefeller's Growth as an Executive The business man needs not merely an expanded capacity for handling detail personally but , as he advances ...
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Page 190 - My intention being to acquire the habitude of all these virtues, I judged it would be well not to distract my attention by attempting the whole at once but to fix it on one of them at a time, and when I should be master of that, then to proceed to another, and so on till I should have gone through the thirteen.
Page 190 - ... with more ideas; and I included under thirteen names of virtues all that at that time occurred to me as necessary or desirable, and annexed to each a short precept which fully expressed the extent I gave to its meaning.
Page 244 - If two or more instances of the phenomenon under investigation have only one circumstance in common, the circumstance in which alone all the instances agree is the cause (or effect) of the given phenomenon.
Page 405 - It ain't the guns nor armament, nor funds that they can pay, But the close cooperation that makes them win the day; It ain't the individual, nor the army as a whole, But the everlastin' teamwork of every bloomin
Page 102 - The boast of heraldry, the pomp of power, And all that beauty, all that wealth e'er gave. Await alike the' inevitable hour: The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Page 224 - The human understanding resembles not a dry light, but admits a tincture of the will and passions, which generate their own system accordingly : for man always believes more readily that which he prefers. He, therefore, rejects difficulties for want of patience in investigation; sobriety, because it limits his hope; the depths of nature, from superstition ; the light of experiment, from arrogance and pride...
Page 191 - I determined to give a week's strict attention to each of the virtues successively. Thus, in the first week, my great guard was to avoid every the least offence against Temperance, leaving the other virtues to their ordinary chance, only marking every evening the faults of the day. Thus, if in the first week I could keep my first line, marked T, clear of spots, I...
Page 191 - I cross'd these columns with thirteen red lines, marking the beginning of each line with the first letter of one of the virtues...
Page 186 - Accumulate all the possible circumstances which shall re-enforce the right motives ; put yourself assiduously in conditions that encourage the new way ; make engagements incompatible with the old ; take a public pledge, if the case allows ; in short, envelop your resolution with every aid you know. This will give your new beginning such a momentum that the temptation to break down will not occur as soon as it otherwise might ; and every day during which a breakdown is postponed adds to the chances...
Page 332 - A man should learn to detect and watch that gleam of light which flashes across his mind -- from within, more than the lustre of the firmament of bards and sages.