THOUGHTS ON BUSINESS

Taranaki Daily News, Volume LI, Issue 119, 11 May 1908, Page 4

THOUGHTS ON BUSINESS

It is seldom safe, .wise, or necessary for one man in a business to have a complete monopoly of all the knowledge on a vital portion of the business. His incapacity or absence for any cause might put the whole enterprise under a severe strain which could be avoided if others knew the principal points of the work. To do otherwise would be like running in an unsafe building withmir. insurance.

What one man knows about a vital portion of the -work often the chief of a business. Take that man away, aud there is not another man m the concern who can fill his place, and it may be a long time before anothei eould be found who could take up the work.

One obstacle that is often encountered is that such men try to hold a monopoly by keeping others from learning anything about their work. And thin spirit in itself is (he l>est of reasons why the work should be learned by another man, for it usually indicates that the monopoly is maintained strictly in the interests of the one holding it. even though it i rt those above him who have given him the opportunity to learn much that he does know. As a rule, a man grows more by teaching others to do part o> jiis work than by having such a monopoly. for it relieves him of commonplace duties and enables him to delve into new thing-*.