Industrial Progress and Human Economics
by James Hartness
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About this eBook
- Author
- Hartness, James, 1861-1934
- Credits
- Produced by Christopher Bloomfield and PG Distributed Proofreaders
- Language
- English
- LoC Class
- HF: Social sciences: Commerce
- Subject
- Personnel management
- Category
- Text
- eBook-No.
- 11090
- Project Gutenberg
- https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/11090
- Release Date
- February 1, 2004
- Copyright
- Public domain in the USA.
Contents
- 1.Industrial Progress — and — Human Economics
- 2.James Hartness
- 3.FOREWORD.
- 4.CONQUEST OF PEACE.
- 5.VERMONT FAVORABLY LOCATED.
- 6.OUR PROBLEM.
- 7.HAVE FAITH IN VERMONT.
- 8.OUR INDUSTRIAL POLICY.
- 9.LIMITATIONS OF MAN'S PROGRESS.
- 10.PROTECT THE INDUSTRIAL SPIRIT.
- 11.WHAT IS NOT AN INDUSTRY.
- 12."DEAD" ORGANIZATIONS.
- 13.SOME INDUSTRIAL HOWS, WHYS AND WHATS.
- 14.NEW INDUSTRIES.
- 15.INVENTOR'S PROPORTION.
- 16.MANUFACTURERS AND NEW INDUSTRIES.
- 17.HABIT ACTION, BASIS OF SKILL AND PROFICIENCY.
- 18.SPECIALIZATION.
- 19.* INDUSTRIAL MANAGEMENT. — Good Results with Moderate Effort. — Physical Condition of Worker. — Capacity for New Ideas. — Money not the Only Dividend. — Right Placing of Men. — Unimportant Details. — Cure for Mind Wandering. — The Manager's View. — Sub-division of Work. — Care in Applying New Theories. — Progressive Energy. — Profit by Experience. — Dissipation of Energies. — Tying up Capital in Stock in Process of Construction. — Cost of the Product. — Largest Profit Per Dollar Invested. — The Workers Help Bring Success. — Have Faith in Your Products. — Specialization.
- 20.INVENTION — Be Practical. — The Inventor Sees Opportunities to Improve. — Improvements May Be Disasterous. — Natural Fitness. — Repeated Thinking. — Concentrating Attention. — Interest Must be Awakened, Not Forced. — Establishing Useful Ruts. — All Men are Human Beings. — Easiest Way to Improve. — Technical View Insufficient. — Inventions Should Not Mix With Details. — Designing by the Square Foot. — Problems to Consider. — The Hero of the Eraser.
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