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Margaret O’Mara
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Bullitt Prof of American History @UW. Teacher, speaker, author of THE CODE. Trying to write more and scroll less.
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Need to manifest Andrew Carnegie’s powers of delegation (fr David Nasaw’s biography, p 184)

W HEN A.B. FARQUHAR, a Pennsylvania businessman, mentioned to Carnegie that he was always sure to be in his office by "seven in the morning," Carnegie remarked laughingly: "You must be a lazy man if it takes you ten hours to do a day's work' "What I do,' he said, is to get good men, and I never give them orders. My directions seldom go beyond suggestions. Here in the morning I get reports from them. Within an hour I have disposed of everything, sent out all of my suggestions, the day's work is done, and I am ready to go out and enjoy myself." What was most remarkable about Carnegie's newfound success as a capitalist was how little it required of him. At each stage of his business career from bobbin boy to steelmaker, he had worked less and earned more.
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Bullitt Prof of American History @UW. Teacher, speaker, author of THE CODE. Trying to write more and scroll less.
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