A Company Is Known by the Men It Keeps

The success of many a business executive comes from his ability to develop an effective employee team. To produce goods and services by depleting natural physical resources and the spiritual reserves of people is to reassert slavery; to produce them by utilizing the bounties of nature and the voluntary talents of employees is an elevation of the spirit of man.

Occasionally a single executive towers above his fellows like a giant redwood in a forest of pines. The dynamic spirit of such a man can infuse an entire organization. More often, however, it is a group of top executives who determine the company climate in which an employee has to work. Their success depends on exerting effective leadership, making prompt decisions, striving for growth, maintaining balance among various parts of the organization, careful planning as to objectives, selecting good working procedures and using ethical (as distinguished from manipulative) motivation. In the absence of these ongoing leadership traits, an organization deteriorates from the rust of executive indifference and the friction of resistance to change. Decision making is fundamental for your development. Indecision will drive nails in the coffin which buries your ambition. Some decisions are bound to be wrong; in contrast with an unsuccessful executive, the successful man makes fewer bloomers. Or maybe he has learned the art of making his mistakes when nobody is looking!