Cooperation and Hans 



Not until we get the full and free obedience, 



h belongs to the leader of the team, shall we 



have a real team in the cooperative job of indut- 



1 this team spirit will have to come frsl 



MC little group which is under the supervision 



of the foreman. 



The Leader of the Team. In the days when 

 the Vikings were gaining power in the northern 

 part of Furope, the men of a tribe or a family 

 met together once a year and elected a leader and 

 then swore to obey him till death. They knew 

 that it was necessary to have a leader and to give 

 him a full measure of obedience if they were to 

 get the things done. If the leader was no good, 

 they threw him out at the end of the year. They 

 not do that, however, when they had a good 

 leader. He led them year after year until he ci 

 and then they would choose his son if that son 

 seemed fit to be the leader. 



I have often wondered how many of the men 

 who are supervising other men in industry would 

 be chosen by the workers if they had to stand for 

 election as leaders, and how many of the workers 

 would freely swear to obey the leaders thus 

 elected. The leader of men, who is not trusted 

 by them to the point that they see in him their 

 natural leader and supervisor, has wasted the 

 opportunities of his leadership and has missed 

 getting his men together as a team just to the 

 cxter hey lack confidence in him. 



It is one thing to have the job of supervising 

 men and to gel by with it. It is quite another t: 



