Identifier: efficientman00west
Title: The efficient man
Year: 1914 (1910s)
Authors: West, Thomas D. (Thomas Dyson), 1851-1915
Subjects: Success Employee motivation Industrial efficiency Personnel management
Publisher: Cleveland, Ohio : Gardner Printing Co.
Contributing Library: University of Connecticut Libraries
Digitizing Sponsor: University of Connecticut Libraries

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one. See frontispiece. There is little that can be written into these pages ofmore importance to be possessed by a supervisor, fromthe president to the lowest official of a company, than thatof good common sense. It so prevents our being self-centered and it assists us to be so well balanced as noother factor making the man and supervisor can excel. 148 THE EFFICIENT MAN Good self-control, balance and common sense are im-perative in any person who aspires to be most efficientin the management of men and of work. These are threephilosophical significations of practical wisdom which per-mits an overseer to consider all vicissitudes, problems andtroubles with good judgment and a calm manner. Theydistinguish him as being often seen but little heard, fromthe blatant boss who, when in evidence, is more noiseand fuss than efficient. The following cartoon has bearing on the quittingwhistle clause, chapter XXXI, as well as on the ques-tion of control for this chapter. -T /4^- …^lillilf^^^^^

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Fig. 19. LOST CONTROL OF SENSES CHAPTER XXIEfficiency of Self-reliance and Good Judgment The very term supervision carries with it the necessityof a person placed in charge of work or men being ablein general to rely on his own judgment or powers indirecting either. There are times when a supervisor maynot feel able to assume all such responsibility, but if sohe should know wherein he is weak and endeavor if pos-sible to strengthen himself for any repetition of suchdemands. There is no factor which unfits a man to possess theself-reliance all supervisors-should have so much as thelack of experience. Again there is no other factor thatso much as this deficiency causes supervisors to becomehypocritical in their action. Any effrontery pretendingto self-reliance, when a person does not possess the knowl-edge, experience or judgment to constantly sustain it,rarely passes muster to the end. Feigning self-reliance may be accepted as genuine bythose not very keen in perception, or so aftable

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