A perpetual campaign of publicity should be
maintained for the benefit of every man in the
employ of the house. In this there should be
a truthful but emphatic presentation of acts
of loyalty on the part of either employers or
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workmen. Everything connected with the
firm which has human interest should be included
in this history. This educational campaign
should change the loyalty to the _*men_
in the firm into loyalty to the _*firm_ itself. It
should be an attempt to give the firm a personality,
and of such a noble character that it
would win the loyalty of the men. This could
be accomplished at little expense and with
great profit.
CHAPTER V
CONCENTRATION
AS A MEANS OF INCREASING HUMAN EFFICIENCY
THE owner of one of the largest and most
complex businesses in America handles
his day's work on a schedule as exacting
as a railway time-table. In no other way
could he keep in touch with and administer
the manifold activities of his industry and a
score of allied interests--buying of the day's
raw materials for a dozen plants in half as
many markets, direction of an organization
exceeding 20,000 men, selling and delivering
a multitude of products in a field as wide as
three continents, financing the whole tremendous
fabric.
Every department of his business, therefore,
has its hour or quarter hour in the daily program
when its big problems are considered
<p 104>
<p 105>
and settled on the tick of the clock. This
schedule is flexible, since no two days bring
from any division of production, distribution,
or financing the same demands upon the owner's
attention. Yet each keeps its place and
comes invariably under his eye--through
reports and his own mastery of conditions
affecting the department.
_To secure the high personal efficiency required
for this oversight and methodical dispatch of
affairs, the owner-executive is not only protected
from outside interruptions and distractions, but is
also guarded against intrusion of the vital
elements of his business--both men and matters
--except at the moment most advantageous for
dealing with them_.
Analysis and organization have determined
these moments--just as they have eliminated
every non-essential in the things presented
for consideration and decision. Except when
emergencies arise there is no departure from
the rule: ``One thing at a time--the big
thing--at the right time.'' The task in hand
is never cheated, or allowed to cheat the next
<p 106>
in line. Management is as much a continuous
process, organized and wasteproof, as the
journey of raw materials through his plants.
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