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Mental Tjrpe. Quiet and 

 reserved; tolerant; not ex- 

 citable; close thinker; set, 

 determined views; makes 

 up his mind and draws his 

 own conclusions; more ret- 

 rospective than observant; 

 slow and deliberate; syste- 

 matic and self-centered 



Mental-motive Type. 

 Strong in self-esteem ; ener- 

 getic; positive and deter- 

 mined; observant; convinc- 

 ing; conservative; good 

 talker; sure of himself and 

 filled with importance of his 

 own work; clear thinker; 

 practical and very energetic 



Motive-mental Type. 

 Plausible ; agreeable and 

 friendly; anxious to please; 

 energetic and practical; sys- 

 tematic; open-minded; pro- 

 gressive; active and alert; 

 observant; an accomplisher; 

 clear headed; good at out- 

 door work; great endurance 



pedigree is unknown. Principles of effi- 

 ciency were applied to the evolution and 

 development of racers long before they 

 were applied to shopwork. 



Horses are not all good as the rose 

 family is, nor all bad as the cimex is. Each 

 horse has in him a great multitude of 

 special characteristics, and, what is quite 

 as important, a lack of other strains, so we 

 can at any time start with a horse in which 

 there is a preponderance of desirable traits 

 and of desirable negatives. 



Picking the Right Man Out of 1,600,000,000 



Similarly, in selecting a human being for 

 a position, our aim should be to find as 

 nearly as we can in all the world the man or 

 woman best suited for the position. Not 

 only should the position be well filled, but 

 each worker should be in the highest posi- 

 tion he is capable of filling. A Caruso, a 

 Paderewski, a Kreisler, ought not to beg 

 for pennies from door to door. 



In my own association of forty men I 

 aim to apply the methods and tests that I 

 recommend to all. I begin at the beginning. 

 When any new work is to be undertaken 

 the first question is this: Should it be done 

 by a machine, an uncarnate thing, or by an 

 incarnate being? It may be far better to 

 assign the work to a windmill, or to a water- 



wheel, or to some other power engine, than 

 to a man. If, however, we need co-operat- 



Coimt Zeppelin. Obviously scientific; an 

 investigator; goes into matters with great 

 exactness; has a good mathematical head; 

 works matters out well ; great perseverance, 

 resourcefulness; new ideas that are well sys- 

 tematized and worked out. A strong character 



ing, incarnate skill and intelligence, can the 

 work be better done by human or by some 

 other form of life? 



If I want to move four hundred pounds 



