THOUGHTS ON BUSINESS.

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 91, 6 April 1908, Page 4

THOUGHTS ON BUSINESS.

A man makes |,is own place in a lui.-i----iii-ss by ins talents. It is not so important that lie have a hu-iiie-. I ilkam! the responsibilities- hi an executive position as it is thai lie si !,| have the ability to as-unie those higher duties with Hi,, assurance of poor organisation, indeed, in which a man's ahility does not have a chance to show itseif, regardless of title. A man who has a ehanee to he heard by those in authority has, in n degree, a voice in th ( . management of the business. Jf his ideas are better than those that are up for consideration, ami if he lias the ability to express those ideas so that others may appreeiate them, hj,. lias a corresponding opportuiiily to control the situation, regardless ol whether he be manager, assistant, or a worker in less coii-picuous capacity.

When .Mr Brown i- promoted or leaves the business ami .Mr. Smilli is assigned to the title anil duties which were Air. Brown's, we arc accustomed to say: ".Mr. Smith has taken Mr. Brown's place in the business." |;„l only in an outward sense is that true. ifr Brown made his own place because of what he said and did and knew. His real place in the business was hi- inlluenee upon it. No one else can take i'i-t thai place. Mr. Smith, by his promotion, lias perhaps a hetlcr oppovlnnilv In make a place of his ~wn in the I'u-iness. to iiilliicn.e i! more vilally. A man's place i- what he males it. '