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Show A PROBLEM WAS solved in a unique way for John L. Dsvis, 1980 Washington Street, San Francisco, California. He was working for a Bank & Trust Company in San Francisco, and he definitely was in a rut. He was not netting ahead as fast as he had a right to feel he should. He worried about what step to take, yet he was afraid to quit and look for something better. Finally he decided to write a letter addressed to himself reviewing the facts and challenging himself to make the break in the next ninety days. He wrote this letter and signed it. Next he made up a list of his friends and decided to call on them for help, giving his qualifications and the reason why he felt he should get out of the slow moving banking business. The first man he called on was a vice president of another San Francisco bank who said he would be glad to offer John a position in his bank, but they both felt that would not fundamentally solve the problem. CARNEGIE In a few days this vice president telephoned John to come to see him. and told of a new Investment Trust just formed In San Francisco and said that they were looking for a security analyst. John was admirably qualified because of his work In the Harvard Graduate School of Business Administration. He Immediately went to see the President of the new company and was accepted for the position. Within three years he was a vice president and a director of the company, com-pany, with a salary three times what he had been making at the bank. He believes he really conquered his fear and stopped his worry by writing the letter to himself Just setting the facts down in black and white, and making clear his course of action. The call on his friend was motivated by the need for action to make the change in ninety days. The final result was what he had desired and that result ws Inevitable once he had written the letter. |