Now, the trouble with a great many
of these hustlers Is that they simply
have a knack of being physically
busy. They do a lot of hustling and
bustling about, often to no purpose/
and are full of lost motion- but their
physical activity is apt to fool ua.
“We are equally often misled, toe,
by men who are showy in some other
way. I was conducting a big public
service plant In a western city, and
industrial manager* from other
places often canje to visit the plant.
It frequently happened that a visitor
would take a fancy to one of our men
and hire him away from ua» To do so
under the circumstances wmm a breach
of business ethics; but here was the
Joke: The men that the visitors hired
from us were almost invariably men
whom we had been tempted bo dis
charge anyhow. It was never the
quiet fellow who went on wifTT b!s
work without saying muoh that the
visiting employers wished to hire
away.
'They were attracted rather te
some talkative chap whose abilities
were largely concentrated along con
versational lines. The merely gabby
person, however, Is soon found out.
and if he has nothing with which to
back up his vocative talents, his
downfall may be even more sudden
than that of the man who has neither
talk nor ability; for an employer is
likely to feel resentful toward the
man whose inadequacy is proof of the
employer’s poor Judgment in hiring
him.”—Fred Kelly in the Nation’s
Business.
