Hi,
Good morning! Thanks very much for all of your mail messages appreciating last week’s TNSS. This week, I would like to share with you the notes I made from the book, “The Go-Getter” written by Peter B. Kyne first published in 1921. Believe me, the message he gives in this book is valid and utmost important even today He presents the meaning of a ‘Go-Getter’ in the form of a little short story of a salesman, Mr. Bill who goes through a testing time to deliver what his employer, Mr. Ricks, wanted. The story goes like this.
Mr. Ricks runs a huge timber company with headquarters in the US and branches in many parts of the world including the one in Shanghai. Due to the failure of the Shanghai branch manager, the company looks for an alternative. Around this time, Bill, who once served the American Army and lost his left forearm and a part of his left leg in one of the battles he fought, joins the company as a sales person. Ricks, getting very much impressed with Bill’s attitude and performance in the first few months of his joining the company, wants to test him before entrusting him the bigger responsibility of a Branch Manager that too in a foreign country. So he plots a test for Bill which includes buying a specific blue vase on a Sunday afternoon from a closed shop with a wrong address and many other obstacles that would generally tempt a non go-getter quit the task very easily. But Bill, who doesn’t know that it was a plot, makes sincere efforts and doesn’t give up despite the hardships and temptations to him to quit the seemingly impossible task.
The story then is all about how he locates the exact shop that has the specific blue vase, finds its owner, gets him open the shop, buys the vase and delivers it to Ricks in a running train to meet the timelines as needed by his employer. Mr. Ricks reveals to him at the end that he was sorry to play the cruel joke of making Bill go through all the pains he did, but gives him a pleasant surprise that Bill passes the test of a “Go-Getter” and that he gets the new job of Manager of the Shanghai branch of the company which gives him a much better pay cheque. The notes I made while reading this book are listed below.....
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Notes for the people who would like to be a Go-Getter:
1) He has courage to tackle the job
2) He has force and initiative
3) He has ability to make a quick decision
4) He does not anticipate refusal
5) If he can do it, he will do it better than it was ever done before, and if he can’t do that he will quit to save the owner the embarrassment of firing him.
6) For him, the employer’s request is tantamount to an order.
7) He believes, “No one could reject one who simply would not be rejected.”
8) He carries his objective.
9) He declines to permit others block him.
10) He makes his job filled with excitement and interesting experiments
11) He believes, “You get nothing for nothing.”
12) He has no false pride.
13) His answer to his master’s request is always, “Yes sir. It shall be done.”
14) He doesn’t give a hoot what it costs. He wants what he wants when he wants it.
15) He never wants to let it be said that he didn’t go down fighting.
16) He is going to stick on the job till he delivers the goods.
17) He has never been trained to question orders, even when they seem utterly foolish to him.
18) He has been trained to obey them, on time if possible. But if impossible, to obey them anyhow.
19) He has been taught ‘loyalty to his chief.’
20) Despite the temptations to quit and run away from his goal, he wouldn’t quit because that would have been disloyal to someone who trusted his capabilities.
Notes for the Chiefs who would like to nurture Go-Getters in their organizations:
1) An organization is what it’s commanding officer is – neither better nor worse.
2) Leaders tell their people what to do, but they would not insult their intelligence by telling them how to do it.
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While we all would like to be go-getters ourselves, it is also important to nurture go-getters at home and in office. Well, there will be pain, distress, and temptations to force one to quit and stray away from the chosen objective of life and our work. But, the go-getter knows that the greatest joy is in sticking to the objective and continuing to work on it, and that it is just a matter of time before you get what you want. At the end, when you look back, you would find the journey joyful, because the objective was meaningful...
To your SUCCESS,
With love and regards,
Siva
value4value@gmail.com
Good morning! Thanks very much for all of your mail messages appreciating last week’s TNSS. This week, I would like to share with you the notes I made from the book, “The Go-Getter” written by Peter B. Kyne first published in 1921. Believe me, the message he gives in this book is valid and utmost important even today He presents the meaning of a ‘Go-Getter’ in the form of a little short story of a salesman, Mr. Bill who goes through a testing time to deliver what his employer, Mr. Ricks, wanted. The story goes like this.
Mr. Ricks runs a huge timber company with headquarters in the US and branches in many parts of the world including the one in Shanghai. Due to the failure of the Shanghai branch manager, the company looks for an alternative. Around this time, Bill, who once served the American Army and lost his left forearm and a part of his left leg in one of the battles he fought, joins the company as a sales person. Ricks, getting very much impressed with Bill’s attitude and performance in the first few months of his joining the company, wants to test him before entrusting him the bigger responsibility of a Branch Manager that too in a foreign country. So he plots a test for Bill which includes buying a specific blue vase on a Sunday afternoon from a closed shop with a wrong address and many other obstacles that would generally tempt a non go-getter quit the task very easily. But Bill, who doesn’t know that it was a plot, makes sincere efforts and doesn’t give up despite the hardships and temptations to him to quit the seemingly impossible task.
The story then is all about how he locates the exact shop that has the specific blue vase, finds its owner, gets him open the shop, buys the vase and delivers it to Ricks in a running train to meet the timelines as needed by his employer. Mr. Ricks reveals to him at the end that he was sorry to play the cruel joke of making Bill go through all the pains he did, but gives him a pleasant surprise that Bill passes the test of a “Go-Getter” and that he gets the new job of Manager of the Shanghai branch of the company which gives him a much better pay cheque. The notes I made while reading this book are listed below.....
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Notes for the people who would like to be a Go-Getter:
1) He has courage to tackle the job
2) He has force and initiative
3) He has ability to make a quick decision
4) He does not anticipate refusal
5) If he can do it, he will do it better than it was ever done before, and if he can’t do that he will quit to save the owner the embarrassment of firing him.
6) For him, the employer’s request is tantamount to an order.
7) He believes, “No one could reject one who simply would not be rejected.”
8) He carries his objective.
9) He declines to permit others block him.
10) He makes his job filled with excitement and interesting experiments
11) He believes, “You get nothing for nothing.”
12) He has no false pride.
13) His answer to his master’s request is always, “Yes sir. It shall be done.”
14) He doesn’t give a hoot what it costs. He wants what he wants when he wants it.
15) He never wants to let it be said that he didn’t go down fighting.
16) He is going to stick on the job till he delivers the goods.
17) He has never been trained to question orders, even when they seem utterly foolish to him.
18) He has been trained to obey them, on time if possible. But if impossible, to obey them anyhow.
19) He has been taught ‘loyalty to his chief.’
20) Despite the temptations to quit and run away from his goal, he wouldn’t quit because that would have been disloyal to someone who trusted his capabilities.
Notes for the Chiefs who would like to nurture Go-Getters in their organizations:
1) An organization is what it’s commanding officer is – neither better nor worse.
2) Leaders tell their people what to do, but they would not insult their intelligence by telling them how to do it.
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While we all would like to be go-getters ourselves, it is also important to nurture go-getters at home and in office. Well, there will be pain, distress, and temptations to force one to quit and stray away from the chosen objective of life and our work. But, the go-getter knows that the greatest joy is in sticking to the objective and continuing to work on it, and that it is just a matter of time before you get what you want. At the end, when you look back, you would find the journey joyful, because the objective was meaningful...
To your SUCCESS,
With love and regards,
Siva
value4value@gmail.com
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