Publisher's Synopsis
This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can usually download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1916 edition. Excerpt: ... ness--and every business under the right management will be a growing business--can absorb men as fast as they are developed. New departments should be headed by men taken from and developed in the business. There will be no definite limit to the progress of a business directed by men developed in this way and by executives capable of developing such men. It is this vision of always having before him the opportunity of securing a position just as big as his ability entitles him to that will grapple the ambitious and able salesman to the house with hooks of steel. 295. Idealizing the business.--That methods such as have been described cost money cannot be denied. But that the money spent is returned many times over is evidenced by the big, rapidly growing concerns from whose experiences these facts and methods have been drawn. In reality, it costs more money to operate a lot of poorly trained men with little or no enthusiasm than it does to handle a well-trained, highly-efficient, "enthusiastic organization. That concern is to be congratulated whose salesmen refer to the house as "ours"--who consider themselves not distinct selling units but members of a big, growing family--who look upon their concern as the ideal of organization, square dealing and efficiency and upon its product as the best of its kind--who feel that their company is performing a highly useful service in the world and that they are privileged in being its representatives--and who, through this love and regard, cast their lot with the organization not for a day but for years. This is not an extravagant statement. There are numberless concerns in which such a spirit pervades the selling organization from top to bottom. Few businesses are so big, so successful, or so...
