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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f efficient workers from whose ranks capablemen can be drawn to develop into supervisors and in-structors, or again help to reduce the chances of theyoung-old being thrown out of employment. It is not only essential that we should now have com-petent operatives from which to select supervisors andinstructors, but we must also prevent much of todayspractical knowledge and expert practice from passingaway; we ought to preserve and to increase what mayotherwise become the lost arts as treated further in thefollowing chapter. One illustration of the artisans artbeing lost can be seen in the inability of fully half of thosenow coming along in the making of castings. They arenot able to skillfully handle such simple tools as the shovel 60 THE EFFICIENT MAN or riddle, let alone do other work of the founders art inan expert manner. There are in almost all the vocations of today entirelytoo many persons for the good of economy and perfec-tion in our industrial production who believe themselves

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Fig. 7. OUTRIVALRY OF THE CONSIDERED GREAT superlatively capable of all that is needed; they knowit all; yet they are as far from possessing these requisitesas exists in the contrast of men awkwardly turning hand-springs in a beginners gymnasium and those athletes per-forming high-class acrobatic or contortionists feats onthe professional stage. The author knows well that in AMATEURS AND EXPERTS 61 his own line this is no exaggeration of common contrastsbetween mens abilities and it is equally true also that wehave in many other vocations many tyros not only ex-acting high pay as journeymen, but we have also numer-ous supervisors and instructors who are little better thanamateurs. When a person has only had an opportunity to observethe feats of a man turning a handspring he cannot knowmuch of what is possible by the individual who has theability to tie his body in a knot or balance on his chin apole with performers maneuvering at its top. There are few efficient and loyal supervisors

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