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Are Soft-hearted People Handicapped In Business? You Have Heard A Businessman Say Of Someone Else, He's All Right, But He's Too Soft-hearted.... To Be Soft-hearted May Be Handicapping, In A Sense. But On The Whole, A Soft Heart Is To Be Preferred To A Hard Heart. Hard-hearted, Severe, Dominating Giants Sometimes Manage To Get Further And To Amass More Money. But They Get Less Genuine Joy Out Of Life.... It Is The Hard-boiled Employer, Not The Soft-hearted Species, That Incites Most Of Our Strikes And Does Most To Endanger The Harmonious Progress Of Democracy.

Do Too Many Executives Still Indulge In The Short-sighted Habit Of Issuing Orders Without Taking The Slightest Pains To Explain To Those Responsible For Carrying Them Out The Whyfor And Wherefor Of The Orders? Where Employees Come In Daily And Hourly Contact With The Public, Surely It Is Important That Care Be Taken To Fit Them To Reply Intelligently To Courteous Questions. ""because Them Are Orders"" Isn't A Satisfying Reply-even Less Satisfactory To The Management Than To The Public.

For My Part, I Rather Distrust Men Or Concerns That Rise Up With The Speed Of Rockets. Sudden Rises Are Sometimes Followed By Equally Sudden Falls. I Have Most Faith In The Individual Or Enterprise That Advances Step By Step. A Mushroom Can Spring Up In A Day; An Oak Takes 50 Years Or More To Reach Maturity. Mushrooms Don't Last; Oaks Do. The Real Cause For An Enormous Number Of Business Failures Is Premature Over-expansion, Attempting To Gallop Before Learning To Creep. Sudden Successes Often Invite Sudden Reverses.

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Vacations For Wage Earners Have Proved Both Popular With Workers And Profitable For Employers. Unfortunately, The Majority Of Large Employers Have Not Yet Followed The Example Set By A Number Of Progressive Corporations. I Don't Know Of A Single Company That Has Abandoned Vacations For Wage Earners After Having Tried The Experiment. But I Do Know Many That Are Delighted With The Fruits They Have Gathered. Under Some Of The Plans Vacations With Pay Must Be Earned By Good Behavior, Punctuality, Etc.... The Best Results Have Come Where The Treatment Has Been Regarded As Most Liberal.