The silver messenger. (Challis, Idaho) 1890-1912, 1903-11-24
For the Individual

cessful. A good manager is balance
wheel, causing the business to move
steadily, not too fast nor too slow.
But he becomes more than that, as
he advances in intelligence, turning
out better products day after day. His
success is dependent upon his man
ner and methods, knowledge and en-
ergy, health and continued growth.
His ability must be going upward
every day he is in the harness.
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Learning Methods.
A quarter of century ago I went
with a playmate to a factory where
his uncle was polishing ferrules. The
uncle handed me ferrule, but some
thing in my playmate's face caused
me TO refuse it. After we got away
from the sparks and noise asked
what was the matter with the ferrule
and he told me 1t was hot. l in.
quiged how 1t was his uncle could
hold 1t, and he said that his uncle
held 1t on two fingers, and then two
other fingers, changing back and
forth, something which had not rec
ognized. Ever since then have tried
to find out how things are done which
| see but do not understand.
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Systematic investigation.
The reading of men has much to
do with the correct management of
men. 1t is easy to coax man to do
something he Is able to do, but an
energetic manager can get many men
to accomplish more and better work
in quantity and quality than they
could If left to themselves. II you
want to be better manager you must
become better acquainted with your
self and learn how to analyze others
as a chemist would analyze an I'M
known liquid. Some books will help
you a little, but observation will help
you more, and the suggestions of
friends and enemies will become the
most useful of all. A course of pri-
vate, systematic investigation for re-
suits must be taken up, either con-
sciously or unconsciously Some men
think day and night without effort
and of course they succeed. Other
men decide they will think more care
fully; they plan how to think and
what to think about, and know all the
time that they are thinking; these
men succeed also.
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Meeting Emergencies.
Some managers are like oil on
troubled waters and are successful II
things move along all right, but IL
condition requiring original and
rapid thought comes up they fall
down. Other managers are like peb-
bles in your shoe, but on account of
their unlimited natural strength they
Just make things hum golden tune
whether anybody likes it or not
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Self-Management.
No doubt you have realized that the
popular educational information
turned out by the printing press dur
ing the last century has caused things
to be little different from what they
once were. The manager is not able
to do to-day in the same way that
which he could do twenty, forty, sixty
years ago. And the time is coming
when, II he would be successful, he
must not only Have wit and a strong
hand, but a humane heart and an
ever clear head AS some may not
recognize the necessity of an occa-
sional rest from everyday work,
viii repeat story / heard recently.
A great corporation offered a smaller
one $4,000 in settlement of claim.
The small concern refused. The large
one had famous lawyer with assist
ants, witnesses and money. The law
yer of the little concern had little
money and had to fight 1t alone. After
securing 100000 for his clients he
confessed he never could have lived
through the fight II 1t had not been
for his habit of dropping all work at
midnight Saturday and not taking II
up again until Monday morning. I
know of another man who made a
practice of lying down after the most
difficult mornings work of the week,
and by sheer will-power forcing him.
self to take a fifteen-minute nap be-
fore starting of for the most difficult
afternoons work of the week. It is
necessary to know yourself and know
how to manage yourself. The success
full management Of men begins in the
correct management of self.
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would make, may be only few dozen