TRAINING OF PARK EXECUTIVES 1017 



(7) retentiveness of mind, (8) initiative, (9) training and (10) experience. 

 Of this list initiative, determination and experience were found to be pre- 

 dominant among successful executives. To these ten requirements might be 

 added energy, contagious enthusiasm, cheerful personality, constructive 

 imagination, cooperative spirit, ability to grow with the work (openminded- 

 ness), faculty of putting himself in another's place, ability of forming 

 correct judgments of people and events and a genuine love of the work 

 and of the institution which the executive represents. 



The majority of these requirements are mental and spiritual qualities 

 and powers which no amount of collegiate study or apprenticeship training, 

 no matter how extended, can put into a man if he does not already possess 

 them. Not the least of the duties and responsibilities of instructors in col- 

 leges and of executives taking apprentices for training is to study closely 

 each candidate for executive work for evidences of these mental and spiritual 

 qualities, and if they are not found in such numbers and combinations as to 

 augur success, to advise the candidate to enter some other line of work. 



