Evening star., 1921-03-31

direction. ask yourself the loilo"lHS
additional questions:
When you receive instructions, anu
are told what results you are expec.,
ed to accomplish, do you accept SAID
instructions blindly. or do you say
to yourself, in effect-"LetS see eH-
actly what they want to accomplish; f.
! If l don't do any more than just VIVA.
they have told me to do, will 1t reaiiy
get the result they want?'
Do you ever suggest more eHectuai
| means than those provided by your
instructions for accomplishing the
results which your work is intenoso
! to produce?
| Before you act upon your own
| initiative. do you invariably consider
all who will be affected and VINO
should be appraised of your proposed
| action?
| faculty of analysis. 1t is for the mos'
| part a faculty developed by training
| Engineers, chemists. physicians anc
! lawyers receive this training in theil
| education for their respective pro.
| fessions. Those of US who have no'
been thus trained must train our
selves.
| 1t is frequently said that the best
! doctor Is the one who can make the
| best diagnosis of a patients case. Inc
! faculty of diagnosing business prop
| lens is of scarcely less Importance to
| business man @r business woman
Moreover. it is not requirement sole
! ly of those who have complex bust
ness problems to solve. 1t can De
said. with the greatest amount OF
emphasis. that the possession OF THIS
faculty is almost as vital to the sue
cess Of the humblest worker OF a
business organization as IT IS 10 tnat
of the big executive.
Story of Hartman Told.
;e $o11 hof 30
Hartman while making an inspec-
ton trip over the Hartman lines was
very much delighted by the precau-
tions taken to insure the safety OF
passengers. In particular he noted
at each division point that men with
his train. for the evident purpose OF
determining from the resulting sounds
whether the wheels were in good
condition. Finally Mr.. Hartman said
to one Of these wheel-tappers: Il see
you're hard at it. Why do you hit
the wheels with the hammer"
The man Strengthened up and re-
piled, in broken English: IT do not
know. It looks foolish to me. but
got wife and babies to make living
for"
Too many people in the world are
working solely for living. You can
not do your work properly, because
you cannot have a proper conception
Of ITS Importance, until you have as
certained all the consequences or an
error. The person who instructed
you may have attempted to impress
you need to learn and analyze for
yourself the various results that may
ensue from a mistake. When you
have done this you will possess
greater respect for your job and
greater determination not to commit
errors.
To develop the faculty Of analysis in
connection with our work we must
first form the habit of doing nothing
until we understand what object is to
be accomplished. AS we develop the
habit of getting always clear ex-
what results we are expected to ac-
complish we are likely to find that
there is developing within us the
habit of forming our own estimates
of the tasks assigned to us. and, fur
thermore, that such estimates are
frequently more comprehensive than
Sometimes we may discover an er-
ror in the instructions given us. or
the omission Of something that should
be included to insure the best re-
suits. When that happens we can
Train Dispatcher's Case.
IQe train QlSpatCneE slts III D.
snug office, but his thoughts travel
along the rails Of his division. Not
one traveller out Of a thousand gives
him a thought, but every traveller is
in the dispatcher's thoughts. There
Is an analogy between his case and
yours
Train dispatchers are only ordinary
human beings, yet their work Is
superlatively accurate because they
know that inaccuracy may make
them murderers. Business losses are
not to be compared with the loss Of
life, but the business man whose
analysis of his daily work gives him
a vivid conception of cause and ef-
feet, such as the train dispatcher
habitually has in respect of train
orders, is usually an extremely val
liable man.
II you are in the business rut and
anxious to get out of it, make 1t q