Developing Executive AbilityRonald Press Company, 1919 - 486 páginas |
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... says the Chairman of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation , Charles M. Schwab . " Whenever the ques- tion comes up of buying new works we never consider whether we can make the works pay . That is a foregone conclusion if we can get the ...
... says the Chairman of the Bethlehem Steel Corporation , Charles M. Schwab . " Whenever the ques- tion comes up of buying new works we never consider whether we can make the works pay . That is a foregone conclusion if we can get the ...
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... says Melville W. Mix , President of the Dodge Manufacturing Company , " that the majority of executives in this country are not more than twenty - five per cent efficient measured by the standard of performance of the few really ...
... says Melville W. Mix , President of the Dodge Manufacturing Company , " that the majority of executives in this country are not more than twenty - five per cent efficient measured by the standard of performance of the few really ...
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... says C. D. Peacock , President of the C. D. Peacock Company , " the trouble lies in some specific direction . Whatever the fault , I believe that men could edu- cate themselves out of it , if they really resolved to do so and went about ...
... says C. D. Peacock , President of the C. D. Peacock Company , " the trouble lies in some specific direction . Whatever the fault , I believe that men could edu- cate themselves out of it , if they really resolved to do so and went about ...
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... say helplessly : " If I could only lay my hands on that article I was reading somewhere last month— . ” Digging through piles of trade papers in search of what he knows is in there somewhere , or vaguely trying to remem- ber its ...
... say helplessly : " If I could only lay my hands on that article I was reading somewhere last month— . ” Digging through piles of trade papers in search of what he knows is in there somewhere , or vaguely trying to remem- ber its ...
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... say , to correspond with his memo paper , writes these stock objections on the tabs , puts aside another set of cards for " liveners , " and places them all in a twenty - five cent card index . In reading the evening paper soon ...
... say , to correspond with his memo paper , writes these stock objections on the tabs , puts aside another set of cards for " liveners , " and places them all in a twenty - five cent card index . In reading the evening paper soon ...
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advertising Andrew Carnegie attained average becomes callers calls cent chapters co-operation column Company correspondence cost daily day's work file definite Dept desk dictation dispatch drawer DW DW efficiency enterprise equipment essential executive executive's exercise fact Figure filing system find the alphabetic habit Harrington Emerson important John Wanamaker keep letter M&D M&D manager material matter means memo memory ment mental methods mind minutes ness operation organization paper pocket possible practice President principle private secretary problem production profits purpose question railroad records Rockefeller routine rule says schedule scientific management secure sheet Sherwin-Williams Company short-cuts South Improvement Company standards stenographer subordinates success Systematic tabs tasks telautograph Test Chart things tickler tion tive typewriter desk utilize various waste William James
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Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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.
Página 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
Página 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.
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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...
Página 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.