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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olding important positions, of anynote, are strong physically and mentally, rarely if everknown to have been sick or enfeebled. Unreliability and the Restraint of the Drinking Habit The habits of a person in reference to drinking, smok-ing or chewing are also called into question but to dif-ferent degrees according to the nature of the business orcharacter of an overseers position. A supervisor may betolerated by some in the latter two useless and often in-jurious habits, but with the first never to the extent ofintoxication. Any supervisor, no matter how lowly or unimportanthis position, should ever permit the drinking of intoxi-cants to go that far as in any wise to affect his mind orcarriage. He is most wise who will absolutely, under anyand all conditions, abstain from their use during his hoursof duty at the least. It is doubtful, aside from the lackof loyalty, if there exists any defect more intolerable in THE WAY or DECISION^ INCOMPETENCE ITC 1 ID TO — EXTRANA-i6ANCE, HONESTY

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PaMUh«4 kr TBB INSIDS ri!BLtSBI«G CO.. TOLUDO. OHIO Fig. 6. THE WAY OF DECISION 58 THE EFFICIENT MAN an overseer than being unreliable through drink. It issure to cause his undoing sooner or later. Supervisory positions do not in general call for per-sons being absolute total abstainers from intoxicants, butmore to be temperate in this as all else, and to controltheir actions, with the understanding that there is a timeand a place for all things, but to always be the man.More on this question is given in chapter XIII. Any supervisor cannot be tolerated very long who isa disgruntled grouch, crank, fanatic or imbecile. Hiscalling demands the noblest and highest in ability, com-mon-sense and morality that is possible for developmentin man. If all mankind could be brought to be as tem-perate, considerate, industrious and self-reliant as shouldbe the typical overseer, whether as the big boss or thelittle one, we could dispense with Salvation Armies, set-tlement workers, poorhouses, asylu

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