Excerpt from Building an OrganizationIn the first five years of this twentieth century we heard a great deal about the pinnacle of business development that had been reached in this country. Big business forced itself upon our attention. The great steel and harvester consolidations, the changes from short line to trunk line railroad systems, and a thousand smaller amalgamations seemed the very acme of organization development. During the years of expansion that followed the panic of 1893, clear up to the beginning of the tension that ended in the crash of 1907, one could find many men of big affairs and of wide business views who were willing to say This is the top, and they believed it true, both of. The financial and the industrial world.But we had not reached the end, nor are we to-day within sight of the end of our possibilities of develop ment. New evidence is put before us every year. Why, despite those emphatic pronouncements of a decade or so ago, organizations like those of the leather industry and the corn products refining interests have gone steadily on. And in storekeeping, the Woolworth concern, the United Cigar Stores, the liggett-riker-hegeman drug chain have all grown from scattered interests into mighty organizations.Each year there are recorded in the United States Patent Office over patent applications. Of these more than one-half are accepted and patent papers are granted to the inventors. In a single year there are started in the United States some fifty thousand new business enterprises. Every year has seen an increasing number of new business concerns. What today are considered mammoth enterprises will in five or ten years be surpassed by establishments twice or three times their size. No, there is no lack of Opportunity for the expression of individuality, for the use of sound business training and for the application of tireless energy. The goal is today wider than it was fifty years ago, even tho it may be harder to reach. Business procedure is more complex than it was fifty years ago, and for that reason bigger men are needed to direct our business activities.About the PublisherForgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.comThis book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully, any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.