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The following outline on Leadership from WetherillsManagement Techniques for Foremenprovides guidelines for gaining a leadership role. Apply each sentence to your own situation, and

you will find sidelights and implications turning on in your mind.

1. Develop your workers confidence in your leadership:

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onstantly give your workers training that will improve their ability.B. Treat each person as an individual.C. Let each individual know how he stands with you.D. Never block anyones progress.E. Treat each worker with respectF. Make judicious use of criticism and praise.

2. Keep your workers feeling good about their jobs:A. Show plenty of enthusiasm yourselfB. Set performance levels to stretch each workers abilityC. Let each worker know that you value his ideasD.

Protect your workers from unpleasant surprisesE. Never make an unreasonable request

F. Hold the Right-Action Ethic as incentive for workers.3. Go out of your way to stimulate favorable attitudes:

A. Think and talk in constructive, favorable termsB. Build up the prestige of each workerC. Make each one want to get your favorable attentionD. Learn what your subordinates want to accomplish; help them do itE. Build their confidence in their performanceF. Let each worker know he can count on you for help.

WetherillsManagement Techniques for Foremen outlines a five-step technique for handling

problems:

Step 1 - Reduce any problem to a specific questionStep 2 - Improve the wording until it defines your problem exactly

Step 3 - Get a selection of possible answersStep 4 - Choose the practical ideas that you intend to use

Step 5 - Weave them into a specific plan of action.

The Right-Action Ethic provides a unifying force for all who adopt it. It makes strangers intofriends, the frightened into the confident, the weak into the strong; and a true kinship among all

members of the human family is born.

Think, say and do what is right; refuse to think, say and do what is wrong. In order to do that,there is one requirement that has to be met, and it is crucial:It must be your intent in life to do

the right thing at all times as best you can.Only right action gets right results; only wrong action gets wrong results.


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Three-fold formula for success:

First, let every decision be made by consensus amongthe persons involved in accord with the

dictates of realityand not by consensus of personal opinions.

Second, eliminate all considerations of personal ambitionand private profit for a few.

Third, make sure that all thinking is centered on considerationsof what is right for

everybodywhat will benefit the company as a whole, its customers, its suppliers, its

employees and the community. Taken far enough these benefits would encircle the earth.

Decisions are predetermined by relevant facts.

Richard W. Wetherill

Right Is Might

The forces of right ultimately triumph in every long-continued struggle.

Be honesttake full responsibility for your own actions and face the truth about yourself

that is what matters.

There are no bad people. There are people who make bad mistakes.

But how does a person drop his emotion when it bubbles up?Here is the technique:

When emotion wells up and swirls in your mind, picture a battleship riding on a calm sea. Throwin some moonlight so that a dive bomber becomes visible in your mental picture. Watch while

the plane drops bombs on the ship so that it explodes into thousands of pieces of debris floatingon the surface of the water. Add some sound effects (so long as it doesnt disturb anyone near

you) and enjoy the release of emotional tension.

Some people picture a steam valve fastened at their wrists. They turn the petcock, and the steamescapes in a hissing cloudso does their emotion. Others visualize popcorn kernels in their

cupped hands that suddenly pop until their hands are empty. Almost any mental picture of thatkind can be used to drain off emotion.

The person who lives the Right-Action Ethic benefits everybody on earth. He will

benefit posterity. Before he benefits anyone else, he benefits himself, because he

has a dynamic formula for successful accomplishment.

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Each individual doing what he knows is right and refusing to do what he knows is

wrong ensures a secure future.

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Energy and competence do not replace vision and character. It is not enough for a leader to do

things right; he must do the right thing.

To be a successful leader, a person should think primarily of guiding others to do the right

thing.

We can only conclude that what the average leader or supervisor urgently needs is not more

discipline but more disciples. The question is, how to get them?

Wetherill defined authority as the ability to command confidence and respect because you

deserve them through your own competence and reliability. You can use that kind of authority toget voluntary cooperation by stimulating employees ambitions and pointing their abilities in thedirection of constructive results. To obtain the best from your employees, your authority must

rest on a sense of competence and personal effectiveness rather than on raw power backed bydisciplinary force.

We stretch people; we dont strain them.

In todays corporate culture, every policy change molds the companys style of doing business.

While this is often thought of as abstract and unimportant, that style has significant impact oneverything that occurs in the company. The corporate culture, therefore, can determine the

companys long-term survivalor demise.

In searching for a formula that will solve peoples basic problems, we must find one thatcombines workability with simplicity.

Among all the lessons taught by history, the most important is that the forces of right

ultimately triumph in every long-continued struggle. The forces of wrong are doomed to

ultimate extinction, as is evident in the lives of every past oppressor and tyrant who ever trod

this earth.

The purpose of persuasion is to induce voluntary action. Therefore,persuasion must offer

attraction toward personal advantage and gain or toward the opportunity to avoid trouble andloss. When those rewards are held forth and the other person is convinced, directly or indirectly,

that the action suggested will give them to him, he will surely cooperate.

The right approach is to analyze whether the company, product or individual is sound; then totake stock of weaknesses and errors; correct them; and finally see to it that the public gets an

accurate impression of the facts.


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natural distinctions of right and wrong are self-enforcing: attempted violations of gravity

bring bumps, bruises and broken bones. He needs to learn that dishonesty naturally brings

impairment to his intellect.

The child who is shielded from frustration may fail to learn how to deal with it.

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