Evening Republican, Volume 22, Number 43, Rensselaer, Jasper County, 20 February 1919 — Big Jobs Are Filled by the Men Who Produce the Results [ARTICLE]

Big Jobs Are Filled by the Men Who Produce the Results

Some men are cursed with the ability to do chores. They can do all the little tinkering jobs well and can’t get busy with the big ones until all the petty tasks receive attention. To be sure the great man is master of details. He will know every step in his bush ness. But he will delegate to others what belongs to their work. No man can be the brains for the whole business. Neither can he be the handy man for the concern and direct its policy at the same time. If he is the business is small. Where you find a man who delights more in winding the clock that he does in keeping his desk clear you can mark him factotum and recommend l him to any one of a thousand big firms that need a handy man. But that’s as far as he will get. The big places are filled by men who get down to business.