emergencies arise there is no departure from
the rule: ``One thing at a time--the big
thing--at the right time.'' The task in hand
is never cheated, or allowed to cheat the next
in line. Management is as much a continuous
process, organized and wasteproof, as the
journey of raw materials through his plants.
This is an illustration of remarkable individual
efficiency attained by concentration
--the power of the human mind which seems
inseparable from any great achievement in
business, in politics, in the arts, in education.
Through it men of moderate capacities have
secured results apparently beyond the reach
of genius. And in no field has this power of
concentration been displayed more vividly by
leaders or been more generally lacking in the
rank and file than in business. Analysis of
the conditions may suggest the reason and the
remedy.
_The modern business man is exhausted no
more by his actual achievements than by the
things which he is compelled to resist doing_.
Appeals for his attention are ceaseless.
The roar of the street, the ring of telephone
bells, the din of typewriting machines, the