FUTURE BUSINESS MAN

Hawera & Normanby Star, Volume XLVI, Issue XLVI, 30 May 1914, Page 9

FUTURE BUSINESS MAN

Considering the amazing develoDments which are daily takifg £E°£i the world of commerce, it is no? a?u£ leasonable contention that the quahiicanonsot the business man of the futX™ I A ?i? many respects from tncse oi the business man of. say ten years ago, or even of to-day' An attempt t*> delineate these qualifications was made in an interesting lecture given a rrionth or so ago in London by Mr H. E. Morgan, the controller of a pig printing business and advertising agency. The speaker began by dismissing the old idea—a product of university education, chiefly— of "lookiaoat business as something unclean and sordid, although it is the life-blood of the nation." More and more business was coming to demand the trained ov-am, which alone could hope to keep pace with the narrower and more intense competition existing to-day. But mentaV energy and acuteness were not an. The bask of nearly all personal efficiency was physical health, and it was coming to be recognised that physique and stamina, were important assets to the business man. What he needed was the energy and enthusiasm that sprang from natural vitality, not the energy and enthusiasm produced by temporary stimulation. To-day, Mr Morgan thought, there was a little too much driving and direction in business. '•The business man of the future," he said, "will be a real leader, his character will inspire loyalty, his capacity, enthusiasm and belief, and while he* must always direct he will not always be directing." There was not enough confidence between emnloyer and employe, and a return to the "personal touch" was needed. One sometimes bears it laid down as an axiom that business is extremely matter-of-fact, and' that imngination is something essentially unr business like. Mr Morgan strongly contested this notion, and. went so far as to claim imagination as one of the most necessary items of ;the future business man's equipment.' "The business man of the past," he said, "lived at Tooting, which for many years had ivnified dullness and smi's; respecfcabilitv. That kind of civilisation .has moved on, ?»Tid Tooting, ©wing to improved traffic and the advent of a reasonable amount, of amusement, is 1 worn ing civilised. . Smug resrcectpKility and dullness haye moved *"O "Wfivbridge and other sal"bri6us subv^bs." Education. Mr Morgan conelxided, had unfortunately come to m^nn -the acquisition of much +hflt vas r>f little use. Training, on the other suggfistecl specific stnclv ai.d «*ff^H +owarr|.B a -more definite result. '"•Vainriier is available on every Tinsel. .Ml we wan*, as a nation or ph ii dividual© is n willingness and a desire to acouire that training with phvaical energy and strength to help iis."