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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y and har-mony in all her workings to be as necessary with manas with nature. When men could not live other than as barbarians,they were even then not wholly free to do as they pleased.It was then found necessary as now to have the bosses,known as chiefs. Neither barbarians nor civilians candisregard the rights of others. Their very existence isdependent on following the compulsory rules that natureand organizations or society prescribe. How few ever stop to realize how little they do, evenin their greatest privacy, but that there is some influenceor power compelling them to do it. We are not far frombeing driven to do everything that keeps us busy fromthe time we arise until we retire, and even then we cannotkeep awake very long of our own will. It is natures wayof compulsion, and man cannot change its laws. Man isso bound by superior force at every turn that no personfrom the very lowest to a president or king can ignoreits mandates. Compelled to acknowledge that compulsion binds us

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nil./. .in I..IMH IX rim -noss- 7 all more or less, wo can brini; ourselves with Ijetter ^raceto be controlled by the conditions that compel an exertionof our eneri^v and strength to make a living. The neces-sity of this energy is universally conceded by all honest,law-abiding citizens. While such persons are very sub-missive to the control of a boss, they do not want himto direct them wholly by inspiring awe in them, or bycausing them to dread his appearance. This is whereinsome large men go to extremes in displaying the bull,and WQ regret to say, too often the brute of such beasts,in controlling wholly by fear those under them, insteadof more inciting a respect for experience, skill, ingenuityand tact that can be as good an asset for them as to bedependent more especially upon their physical powers. Since man has come to recognize the necessity of hisl)eing directed by others, such can be done with a. firmbut intelligent control that leads rather than drives. Thisis not contendin

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