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114 Proven Plans To Save A Busy Man Time
HOW TO GET THE GREATEST VALUE FROM THIS
BOOK
There are scores of time-saving plans in this little book,
but each of them was selected only after one or more similar
plans had been discarded. Several hundred plans were carefully
inspected to secure the 114 printed in the book.
"Where did they all come from?" you will probably ask. They
have been furnished by a group of unusually successful business
men with which the editorial organization of the A. W. Shaw
Company has built up a confidential contact. Only those in this
group who have specialized on working out plans and methods for
saving time supplied material for this particular book. So the
book really not only contains the very best plans from among
several hundred for cutting down time wastes, but the best plans
worked out by the men with the best records for perfecting plans
whom the A. W. Shaw Company has been able to discover after a
country-wide search extending over a number of years.
This explains why the plans cover so many types of business.
But this only increases their value, of course, for it is a
demonstrated fact that nine out of every ten plans that succeed
with one type of proposition can be used for almost all other
types.
Furthermore, the ever- increasing intensity of the
competition which business men face nowadays makes it necessary
for them to draw their ideas from more than one type of
proposition if they are to keep up to date.
Just try out one or two of the plans that appeal to you most
if you want a first-hand proof of this assertion that ideas can
be transferred from one field to another. As a matter of fact,
there are many classic incidents illustrating this truth—the
cash register is said to have come from a device for recording
the revolutions of a ship's engines, for example. These
incidents all go to illustrate the important fundamental truth
that the various types of business are after all very much
alike.
The A. TV. Shaw Company has on file records of hundreds of
letters which demonstrate the practicability of using the other
man's idea. There is even a department "How I Used Another Man's
Idea" in its magazine, SYSTEM, which you will receive in
connection with your purchase of this book.
Here is a good example of these letters from a recent mail:
Joseph L. Holbrook is office manager of the Fuller-Morrison
Company, and a regular reader of SYSTEM. In his December 1916
copy he read an article by W. H. Leffingwell on "What Scientific
Management Did For My Office." Mr. Holbrook quickly saw how he
could use Mr. Leffingwell's plan to advantage in his business.
Let him tell in his own words about the idea which cut time
losses for him:
"This plan," writes Mr. Holbrook, "is a dandy in handling
mail. We give credit for it to SYSTEM, as it is a combination
of various methods that we read of there. The last plan that
we saw described hi the magazine before we completed our new
building and installed the equipment was in W. H. Leffing-well's article, 'What Scientific Management Did For My
Office.*
"A new sorting rack, placed as part of the dividing line
between the mailing department and the general offices, is the
result. Since our mail for individuals is likely to be rather
bulky, we changed Mr. Leffingwell's idea. He described a rack on
the 'incoming mail' table, with narrow vertical divisions in which the sorting clerk places letters and department
notes to the various men.
"We have, instead, compartments that run clear through
the rack. The incoming mail is sorted into the respective
pigeonholes by the man who handles this work on the mailing room side of the rack. On the office side of the rack the
letters are taken out and stuffed into the deliver}' folders for
the boy. It saves us lots of time in handling the incoming
mail."
Be sure to read each issue of SYSTEM carefully, for it will
describe to you month after month not only many other tested
plans for saving time, but also new and practical methods for
increasing your sales, for advertising, training salesmen,
keeping records, holding down expenses, and carrying on all the
other activities of your business in the most effective way.
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