Show Reading Is Key To In Know How How w-How DU DUP Board ard Meets Reading biographies es of major executives and industrial tycoons tycoons tycoons ty ty- ty- ty coons may be the key to know- know how in joining the professional management establishment says Dr George S. S Odiorne dean of the College of Business BusIness Business Busi BusI- ness at the University of Utah IN THE TIlE November 1970 issue of the Michigan gan Business Business Business Busi Busi- ness Review the noted Utah dean says the new biographies of such men as Alfred AlIred P P. P Sloan of General Motors or Tex Thornton of Ford Motor Company gives business students students students stu stu- stu- stu dents perspectives on management management management manage manage- ment that they may never learn in school classes or from company executive management management management manage manage- ment courses Contrary to a widely held belief Dr Odiorne says biographies biographies biographies bi bi- bi- bi show that the pattern pattern pattern pat pat- tern of very famous and successful successful successful suc suc- executives does not depend on ty nepotism favoritism degrees from the proper schools ability to wear the right clothes etc Instead the evidence tips the scale in favor of excellence of per per- THE admission ticket to the professional management establishment is to be efficient but more important to pick the right boss says Dr Odiorne He pointed out that time after time the great business tycoons of the country have produced a major school of managers The one experienced senior professional would impart impart impart im im- im- im part his know-how know to a relatively relatively rela rela- small smaIl corps of juniors who in turn became l highly successful READERS OF biographies of great management tycoons such as Alfred S S. S Sloan or orPierre orPierre orPierre Pierre S. S du Pont can take cues from their successes and failures thereby gaining expertise expertise expertise ex ex- ex- ex pertise in the new management establishment leading the he country's industries today maintains Dr Odiorne The professor recommends the following as good biographies biographies biographies My liMy Years With General General General Gen Gen- eral Motors by Alfred P P. P Sloan Someone Has to Make It Happen by Bierne Lay Jr Ford by Booton Herndon Herndon Herndon Hern- Hern Edward Edward Edward Ed Ed- don by ward V. V The Stockholder Stockholder William Hoffman by L Lyle le Stuart and Think by bv William Rod Rodgers ers The South Davis County DUP Board met at Neva Newcomb's home last Monday Monday Mon Mon- day morning Mrs Newcomb is first vice president In keeping with the Christmas Christmas Christmas Christ Christ- mas season and the spirit of giving there was an exchange of white elephant gifts and contribution to a purse for Utah Boys' Boys Ranch THE TIlE SPECIAL project for December and January will willbe willbe willbe be the making of quilts for Boys' Boys Ranch Anyone who would like to help should call Agness B B. B Mangus Mangos at or any county board member am |