| Show r Uncommon Sense Senses 1 By JOHN BLAKE s J BASED ON EXPERIENCE IS decision or the lack of ot It that IT makes the difference between first class and second class men 2 No o man is fit to command an army or even a company of Infantry unless he has decision Hesitation In time of war Is fatal It Is dangerous and destructive In times of peace pence No o man can always make up his mind quickly and be sure he be Is right every time But the man who does this Is the man who gets furthest In the world All Important leaders lenders of t action or thought are men of ot decision This Is particularly true of executives executives ecu tives who have ha many men under them To such men means lost time time hundreds hundreds of hours of ot It aDdIs and aDd andis andis is not to be tolerated But be very careful In cultivating decision to base It on experience It will be anything but an advantage to be able lle to make up your mind quickly If It you make it up wrong every time Neither you ou nor I would be able to decide Instantly between two reports of engineers as to the best course to run a railroad A railroad president or general manager who was worth his salt could decide very shortly He could do so because years ears of experience ex ex- experience would have taught him how to weigh the question and to decide for forthe forthe forthe the combination that meant the easiest grades and the most traffic But we can or at least ought to be beable beable beable able to decide our own problems without without with with- out much waste of time We ought not to hesitate more than half an hour over oyer the choice of a suit of clothes or more than ten seconds over the choice of a necktie Yet even to make trivial choices such euch as us these requires a knowledge of ourselves which is not lightly ac ac- ac- ac Learn to decide for decision means efficiency But learn to decide right I JL Base decision on thought and experience experience experience ence and It Is not very cry likely to go wrong Copyright |
