REALLY SUCCESSFUL EXECUTIVE

Hawera Star, Volume LII, 28 January 1933, Page 14

REALLY SUCCESSFUL EXECUTIVE

J)R. ALBERT MAN SIB RID GE, chairman of the "World Association for Adult Education, speaking at a conference reported in the "Oxford Times” of the days when he was a junior clerk, said: "I learned that the wisest thing to do was to accept the meanest work. There is no question about it. I also feund that Pd got no right to protest against a job until 1 I could do it perfectly. There was a snag in it, for, as I couldn’t do anything perfectly, I’d got no right to protest. "The business executive is shortsighted and stupid if he tries to keep everything in his own hands. The successful man is the man who so does his work that when he is away is goes on better. If it goes on worse, then he is condemned. The successful man in business, to my mind, is the .man who can go away without being missed. Suspicion is a very bad thing; you must

Can Depart Without Being Missed

have trust. Trust everybody; you get much more out of them if you trust them. The more .you throw on subordinates, the better it is for the job. You want all the time to encourage brains and the real qualities, because you never know what you’ve got.

"There is not a man living who i-s capable of doing a- job by himself. I don’t mean buying a stamp and sticking it on. You ought to call in 1 the qualities you’ve got round you; you’ll get a richer haul. The more awkward a youngster is, the more the chances are that he will turn out to be a successful man. The boy who always turns up on t-ine, with a clean- collar and all the rest of it, stays like it. Clov-er people are the most stupid. You should see them in this University. It is not altogether their fault; it’s because the other people are not playing their part..”