The Mitchell capital. (Mitchell, Dakota [S.D.]) 1879-1918, 1907-11-08
ARE BOSSES NEEDED
Some Men Become Bosses; Others
Need to be Bossed
&c.,
By George Brett
BY George Brett

Are you a master of your actions,
or are you being mastered ccntinu-
ally by the will of others, by circum-
stances and your environment? The
great majority of men can be divided
into these two classes.
To say a man is masterful is to pay
him a compliment. A horse OF a do
nestle animal can detect the tone,
the touch, and the spirit of a master
full mind. Such men get the quick
est obedience from animals and hui
mans. The term master" here does
not refer to ar employer. Many own
ers of businesses come into them by
inheritance and are not masters of
others or themselves, either by in
stinct or training. Hundreds of an
|ployes, on the other hand, some day
doubtless will be employing others.
You can see 1t by studying their
faces, their actions, the quiet, deter
mined, resolute manner of the one
who is sure that one day he will be
in business for himself and make a
success Of it.
Generally the great army of the
mastered trust much to such things
as luck, chance, fate, and the future.
They do not get into the habit of re-
Lying on themselves, because they
have found out from past experience
their Judgment has been worthless.
Want Of s%elf-reliance and confidence
chiefly marks the mastered man"
Stop Relying ON Luck
If a man wants to get out of the
class of the mastered, the subjected,
the dependent, he wants to stop and
stop Immediately relying on strokes
of good luck. He wants to avoid
thinking about things as they might
be and turn his whole attention to
conquering the world as it is now.
The way the world has treated him in
the past is a first class indication as
to how it will treat him in the future.
IOnly to get better treatment he must
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world.
The habit of mind beng masterful
or the reverse shows itself in a hun
dred ways. Notice the way some men
take instructions. The man who is
used to mastering things will not be
content with half a message nor say
he understands instructions which
are not clear. But the man who is
accustomed to being mastered or
floored has not got the strength Of
mind usually to say a thing is not
clear to him when his superior seems
to think 1t should be plain. The truth
is he Is %overborne by a superior will.
For a short time he may appear to a
better advantage than the other-un-
til he falls down. through making
some big mistake. Then the error is
charged up to his carelessness in
stead of his weakness of mind and
lack Of courage.
Autocrat Gets Hold of Business
The writer once knew of a case
where a typical autocrat in business
acquired the control Of another small
concern. He had an authoritative,
quick way of speaking, difficult to I'M
derstand. And he detested people
who asked questions.
Acting as manager of the newly &C
quired business was a masterful man.
After the autocrat had been in charge
he came into the Office of the previous
manager, glanced over the market
Quotations, and "got busy"
Sell so and so at such a price. Buy
50 many shares of Amalgamated
Steel. If the market goes down to
i5O% on Louisville-Illinois snap up
200 shares" All this was spoken
as If he had a set Of false teeth in
his mouth and they we're wabbling
about. Diminishing the former mana
ger with a curt That's ALL" he grab
bed hold Of the telephone to call
some n up. But the other, in quiet
but determined tones, asked for a
repetition of that part of the order
on which he was not sure.
The autocrat was frantic and on
the point of using bad language; but,
Notwithstanding this, the other got
to know what he wanted and then
coolly suggested that it was a good
thing to get instructions right In
the first place. The outcome was that
he became a kind of favorite with the
%autocrat. Perhaps he secretely adj
mired the nerve" of the man.
Speed Causes CLERKS Mistake
Who has not seer some unfortun.
ate clerk, ~browbeaten by an employer
or manager of a department, try tc
work his fingers of doing some piece
of work in an hour which could be
done properly in two hours? The us.
ual outcome is that the poor fellow
i . $1,000