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Show I ADDITION TO HIS EFFICIENCY Business Manager Would Do Well to Remember That His Personality Counts for Much. "He's really very agreeable outside of business hours." How often we hear this remark about a certain type of man at the head of a large enterprise. He is the man whose office demeanor is characterized by the coldness of a snowball and the indifference of a stone. .' . In his desije to become efficient and make every one about him the same he squeezes every bit of human feeling feel-ing out of hts relations with his subordinates sub-ordinates and becomes a pirt of a working system, as dehumanized as his filing system or his adding machine ma-chine er the typewriter which his stenographer manipulates. During office of-fice hours he is a machine which dictates dic-tates letters, looks over reports and develops efficiency. But "he's really very agreeable outside of business hours." "' " 'his man needs to know that, his ability being efficient, he becomes mr-'e efficient as he becomes more human, hu-man, just as a machine is more efficient effi-cient the more machine-like it becomes. be-comes. He needs to learn that the man at the head of a big concern must have personality if he is to hold his business together, and that personality per-sonality is a gooc thing to keep'on The man who subordinates his peromely per-omely t0 hi3 position .s i Per eta his position rua h.m ho jobholder before he is a man. A p itia |