Music Trade Review
Issue: 1910 Vol. 51 N. 15 - Page 3
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REVIffl
THE
V O L . LI. N o . 15.
Published Every Saturday by Edward Lyman Bill at 1 Madison Ave., New York, Oct. 8, 1910
SING
V2 E O?°PE I R S YEAR ENTS '
How Great Men Deputize
R
E C E N T L Y I was in the office of a man who directs a great industrial enterprise—in fact, a num-
ber of them; for he is a power in the business and financial world.
Our conversation drifted into some interesting channels, considerable time was consumed,
and 1 offered an excuse for taking up so much of his time on matters which were seemingly in-
consequential.
"Time," he said, "I have plenty of it for such discussions as we have gone through. There was a
period in the history of my life when 1 believed in doing everything. I had no time to myself in those
days. 1 was a slave, and I was creating a piece of machinery which was the master; but I learned dif-
ferently. T learned to organize and to lay out my work in such a way that I selected men to do it; and,
that is why I have plenty of time to-day for the consideration of various matters. I direct, and I am
not wearing out under the strain at that."
There is no question in my mind that when a man has reached that point he is just beginning- to size-
up business life correctly.
A man may have tremendous power, creative as well as administrative, and yet if he exhausts all of
that in doing his work himself he is only contributing to his own breakdown.
In other words, he is a slave of his own machinery which he has reared.
Now, the really big men in our modern, financial and industrial life realize that, and they turn over
their organization to others, simply mapping out plans and letting the others work out the details.
Think of Morgan wearing himself to a frazzle working out minor details!
He saves his splendid mind to direct—make the plans; and, then deputizes the detail work to others.
Napoleon worked out his wonderful campaigns by deputizing to his marshals the work which he de-
sired carried out.
I remember one time when I was serving on the World's Fair Commission of which Edward H. Har-
riman was president. He came in one afternoon and asked the pardon of the members of the Commis-
sion for the delay which he had occasioned, stating that he had been busy for an hour working out an ap-
propriation of $30,000,000 for betterments on the Union Pacific.
A couple of hours for $30,000,000! And in that two hours that master mind had planned just how that
$30,000,000 should be expended, but he left it to others to work out the smaller details, and when those
details were all prepared and presented to him he could then pass on them collectively in less than two hours
more. And that is the way it is with big men; and every man, no matter how small his business may be,
can run it on such a basis that he can do the directing and leave it to others to carry out his wishes and save
his own mind and health for the accomplishment of bigger things.
REVIffl
THE
V O L . LI. N o . 15.
Published Every Saturday by Edward Lyman Bill at 1 Madison Ave., New York, Oct. 8, 1910
SING
V2 E O?°PE I R S YEAR ENTS '
How Great Men Deputize
R
E C E N T L Y I was in the office of a man who directs a great industrial enterprise—in fact, a num-
ber of them; for he is a power in the business and financial world.
Our conversation drifted into some interesting channels, considerable time was consumed,
and 1 offered an excuse for taking up so much of his time on matters which were seemingly in-
consequential.
"Time," he said, "I have plenty of it for such discussions as we have gone through. There was a
period in the history of my life when 1 believed in doing everything. I had no time to myself in those
days. 1 was a slave, and I was creating a piece of machinery which was the master; but I learned dif-
ferently. T learned to organize and to lay out my work in such a way that I selected men to do it; and,
that is why I have plenty of time to-day for the consideration of various matters. I direct, and I am
not wearing out under the strain at that."
There is no question in my mind that when a man has reached that point he is just beginning- to size-
up business life correctly.
A man may have tremendous power, creative as well as administrative, and yet if he exhausts all of
that in doing his work himself he is only contributing to his own breakdown.
In other words, he is a slave of his own machinery which he has reared.
Now, the really big men in our modern, financial and industrial life realize that, and they turn over
their organization to others, simply mapping out plans and letting the others work out the details.
Think of Morgan wearing himself to a frazzle working out minor details!
He saves his splendid mind to direct—make the plans; and, then deputizes the detail work to others.
Napoleon worked out his wonderful campaigns by deputizing to his marshals the work which he de-
sired carried out.
I remember one time when I was serving on the World's Fair Commission of which Edward H. Har-
riman was president. He came in one afternoon and asked the pardon of the members of the Commis-
sion for the delay which he had occasioned, stating that he had been busy for an hour working out an ap-
propriation of $30,000,000 for betterments on the Union Pacific.
A couple of hours for $30,000,000! And in that two hours that master mind had planned just how that
$30,000,000 should be expended, but he left it to others to work out the smaller details, and when those
details were all prepared and presented to him he could then pass on them collectively in less than two hours
more. And that is the way it is with big men; and every man, no matter how small his business may be,
can run it on such a basis that he can do the directing and leave it to others to carry out his wishes and save
his own mind and health for the accomplishment of bigger things.
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