Show i COURTESY cou RT IN BUSINESS I A t writer in Harpers Weekly con contributes contributes tributes a n most interesting dissertation dl I ii 1 on rI i courtesy courtes as an asset R et In business i I and illustrates it with stories from om i 1 teal real life The whole ho article ought to tobe toi i I Ift q ft be read road by every man who has business i I i i to do and particularly by the class that t thinks It U profitable to make every vie vis iM i or work his way through rough t a maze of I guards I He Ho tells teUs for Instance of or one general J 1 f manager of ot a railroad who found time timeto i to see all callers who wished to talk ij q i i to t him personally and who managed his interviews so M o that no time was wa wat t I 1 wasted and yet no visitor had hatt oc or occasion 1 casion c ion to reel feet anything but kindliness I for fo the man or his railroad By can cani i tract another example ic is I given ghen of ot a ayoung aI aI I young y un ung man In a big advertising agency a I i j who lost loet a contract for tor worth of ot 4 I I advertising because he was wae as tool busy d I to be either decent or businesslike I Generally speaking I the men of largest b f affairs men who have achieved aeh ved the I I most find time to be most Inos courteous f that is one reason they the have hae succeeded i AH MI of us have discovered that it is Isi i I easier to get an interview wIth the I biggest of the big men than it is II to toI I reach Teach their subordinates who have bave to assume dignity and aloofness to sat satI V I Uty C their own on notions of greatness f 11 Of 01 course busy bUllY men have lIae to reserve certain hours for work without inter interruption interi c but they the also find time to toI toI I I I i I meet the outside world on friend 1 terms term As A in public affairs fra lb the men a I who always have time to serve s their 1 i community are the men who have bave the 1 t I heaviest burdens of work for them themselves iw Wl fr M 11 1 selves so it Is that the big bl bI man can cnn almost be measured by b his accessibility Whether Wh ther it is the messenger boy the telephone operator the clerk at the 1 dock desk or 01 the general manager nager courtesy isone one of or the big assets or individual I and business life And the character I of t the man at the bead head of things can cant t 1 almost invariably be bs known by b the tone toneY 3 Y of oC 0 his employee toward towa outsider |