The Problems of Work

• A worker who is easily confused is a worker who cannot control things.

• In a plant or in an office it is then necessary for an executive,.

no matter how good he may be, to be supported by subordinates.

who themselves are not unwilling to be started, changed and’ stopped by him, but who can themselves start, change and stop· the activities or personnel in their own immediate .environments.

in the plant.

• The less capable people are of start-ing, changing and stopping the people or objects under their immediate control, the more supervision they require.

• An insane man has difficulty in even the sanest and most orderly surroundings.

• Insanity is contagious. Confusion is contagious.

• One must have individualities which oppose the purpose or activities of one, and if one lacks these things it is certain that he will invent them.

• It sounds very strange to say that uncontrol must also be under control but this is in essence, true. One must be willing to leave certain parts of the world uncontrolled.

• The basic difficulty with all juvenile delinquency is the one-time apparently humane program of forbidding children to labor in any way.

• One does not become exhausted simply because one has worked too long or too hard. One becomes exhausted when he has worked sufficiently long to restimulate some old injury.

• Key to Success: An ability to confront work with joy and not horror; a wish to do work for its own sake, not because one has to have a paycheck”. One must be able to work without driving oneself or experiencing deep depths of exhaustion. If one experiences these things there is something wrong with him. There is some element in his environment that he should be controlling that he isn’t controlling or his accumulated injuries are such as to make him shy away from all people and masses with whom he should be in intimate contact.

• A man who cannot work is as good as dead and usually prefers death and works to achieve it.