How to Manage an Office (Classic Reprint)

Excerpt from How to Manage an Office Getting money to go further means making it follow straight lines. Directness is the main point to remember when you begin to shift office desks and revise office methods. As you tramp through the plant after hours, the shop will display its result in product and the sales corps in cash receipts, but the office will be empty. Don't be fooled. Don't tell your office manager to "go after" the overhead. Look deeper with him. Don't slash blindly. Find the uses and products of the office; then improve their quality and cut their cost. Study your office as the most valuable and intricate mechanism in your enterprise - the carrier of service and selling ideas, the bank for your factory and sales department, the clutch that joins product and trade, the range-finder for next year's business. Economize space, not brains - trim lost motion, not system - reduce friction, not power. Find the short cuts in your office work, and "overhead" will be an economy to your business. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This 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.