Beaver County News | 1925-08-14 | Page 7 | Many a Business in the United States Suffering from Conferencitis

Many a Business in the United States Suffering From Conferencitis By RODMAN GILDER, Editor Credit Monthly. Many a business is suffering from conferencitis. A grave ease is the department head, whose confidence and courage have been emasculated emascu-lated by the wrong kind of control from above, who believes it necessary to confer with the chief before taking any action outside of routine. A still more serious form of conferencitis appears when an executive calls together his immediate subordinates and, without profiting by their views, wastes many high-priced man-hours in useless repetition of his instructions. in-structions. Among the gravest conferencitis cases of all are those where the directors di-rectors or partners in a business sit down together in the board room or over a luncheon table, and permit the discussion of details to obscure the real questions of policy that should be decided. The cure for conferencitis in nearly every case is in the hands of the man higher up. He should call no conference of any kind that is unnecessary unneces-sary and he should at the earliest possible moment dispatch the work in hand and get every one back on the job.