Developing Executive AbilityRonald Press Company, 1919 - 486 pages |
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amount Andrew Carnegie attained average callers calls cent chapter Company correspondence cost Cyrus McCormick daily day's work file definite Dept desk dictation dispatch drawer DW DW effect efficiency effort enterprise essential executive executive's exercise fact fatigue Figure filing system habit handling Harrington Emerson idea important John Wanamaker keep letter M&D M&D manager mastication material matter means memo memory ment mental methods mind minutes ness operation organization paper position possible practice President principle problem production profits question railroad record Rockefeller routine rule says schedule scientific management secure sheet Sherwin-Williams Company short-cuts South Improvement Company standards stenographer subordinates success systematic tasks telautograph Test Chart things tickler tion tive typewriter desk utilize various waste William James
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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 - Order. Let all your things have their places; let each part of your business have its time.
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 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 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 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.
Page 403 - ... tendered, if an answer is transmitted in due course of mail, accepting them ; and that it cannot be withdrawn, unless the" withdrawal reaches the party to whom it is addressed before his letter of reply announcing the acceptance has been, transmitted.