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Department -store executive James
SchofT adds: "We have concluded that
exposure to a liberal-arts influence is
the best possible preparation for meet
ing specialized demands in business."
Broad interests mean many things, but
probably the two most important are
showing a keen interest in human
problems and in other phases of your
company's operations, in addition to
your own specialty.
2. Arc you willing to accept responsibil
ity, make decisions, and occasionally
take chances?
"Most young employees just want to
keep out of trouble," says a corporation
president. "But people who don't take
risks and make sacrifices seldom become
leaders." Frank Pace, Jr., former Secre
tary of the Army, adds: "Too many
people think selling themselves means
thinking along the same lines as their
superiors. It is important to get across to
an organization that the boss knows
what he thinks; what he wants to know
is what the other man thinks."
The willingness to gamble also means
willingness to pull up stakes and tackle
a new and challenging opportunity if it
presents itself. Few lost opportunities
mark the path of successful business
leaders on their climb to the top. One
executive said emphatically: "Unwilling
ness to take chances, make decisions, or
accept responsibility wrecks more careers
than any other weakness."
3. Do you REALLY like people?
The day of the rugged "let 'em eat
cake" individualist is a thing of the past.
Human relations have taken on new
value and new importance. To get along
in business today, you should also be
able to get along with people.
The easiest way, of course, is to like
them genuinely. This means looking not
for faults but for good qualities in the
people you work with. The habit of
liking people can be acquired if you
work at it. Without it, your business
path is difficult.
4. Are you continuing to learn?
Lyle M. Spencer, president of Science
Research Associates, says: "From the
day they take over the reins of business
by Joseph Netcton
control, most chief executives are secretly
dissatisfied with their own work. Their
desire to improve the quality of their
decisions and activities is as intense as
their drive to increase company profits."
Whenever you feel you have reached
the point where you know it all, you're
in trouble. Education must be a broad
and continuing process and it must in
clude a willingness to consider advice.
There are indications that college
graduates with a background in the arts
and sciences, rather than a highly spe- '
cialized education, are best equipped to
meet these qualifications. College, in
cidentally, is very helpful but not ab
solutely mandatory. Even more impor
tant is the ability to make use of the
learning process every day!
5. Are you well-organized?
Successful executives have, to a high
degree, the ability to organize not only
their own time and work but also that
of other persons.
Probably the most important by
product of such highly organized think
ing is the parallel ability to delegate
responsibility freely and decisively, and
to get things done through other people
by inviting suggestions and encourag
ing participation.
On this point, Roger Hull, executive
vice-president of an insurance company,
says: "If I had to choose between an
executive who surrounds himself with
good people and listens to them, as
against a more brilliant fellow who
listens to no one, I would definitely
choose the first."
6. Are you a "company man"?
This term has acquired a slightly
contemptuous meaning over the years.
Yet most successful management people
are very definitely "company men." This
means simply that they like what they're
doing and derive a great deal of satis
faction from their company's growth and
development.
Although the company man is am
bitious, his ambition is tempered by the
ever-present desire to improve the over
all organization for which he works.
The company man identifies himself
with the work of the entire company, not
just his job. He is consistently seeking
new work to do and new ways of doing
it. He generally refuses to indulge him
self in the ail-American pastime of
knocking his employer behind his back.
Like any other excesses, the company -man
philosophy can be carried to ex
tremes; but most successful manage
ment people genuinely like their work
and their company.
7. Are you healthy?
Every survey of successful business
people shows the popular concept of the
ulcer-ridden executive, guzzling milk
while he tries frantically to handle a
half-dozen simultaneous phone calls, to
be pure eyewash. Most business leaders
are remarkably healthy and have been
since childhood. They don't worry about
their health, and seldom talk about their
ills real or imagined.
8. Do you feel inner security?
Most business leaders have found
mental as well as physical health and
well-being. In general, they are happily
married, have several children, adhere
to high moral and religious standards,
and are active in a great many civic,
social, and educational causes, in spite
of the limitations of time. They also have
the courage to speak their minds when
they feel they're right without becom
ing antagonistic; and, conversely, they
willingly admit being wrong when
evidence so indicates. In short, these
men have pretty well made their peace
with the world.
Now, what are the material rewards
of business success? Among the most
fabulously successful businessmen in
America are the members of the Young
Presidents' organization men who be
came presidents of large companies be
fore they were 40. Last year, these men
had an average income of about $41,000,
and received a $1,500 raise during the
year. Individually, they carry about
$112,000 in life insurance and have a net
worth of some $250,000. They are strong
family men married an average of 13
years, with three or more children.
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