Publisher's Synopsis
Excerpt from Organizing a Factory: How a Business Is Organized, Control of Production, Factory Departments and Their Work, Accounts and Costs
American business men hold that the only way to learn to do things is to do them. This Opinion has had much truth and fact to justify it, but it has been undergoing a marked transformation in the past dec ade. For men are coming to realize that, although no one can learn to do a thing by merely being told how it is done, such precious knowledge greatly facili tates his learning how to do it when once he gets into practical work. It affords him a strong foundation, barren and useless in itself, but a firm basis upon which to build the structure of business experience. Book learning, abstract knowledge, is like a fertilizer it does not, of itself, produce anything, but it stimu lates growth and advance when the live seed, practical experience, is instilled in the soil of work.
There is another feature in modern commercial life which has stimulated the output of business litera ture. Association for the accomplishment of common purposes is having an always greater impetus, and it has been accompanied by another kind of cooperation - the give and take of business ideas and knowledge.
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