um Centripetal Power
The Whirl-Out People The Centre People The Whirl-In People
Alexander Graham Bell Telephone-Vail Hands
Architect Contractor Carpenter
Genius Artist Workmen
Columbus Columbus Isabella and the
sailors
The Prospector The Engineer }Scoopers, Grabbers
}(in mind or body),
}Hewers
David the poet David the king David the soldier
Shakespeare Shakespeare Shakespeare
CHAPTER XVIII
THE MAN WHO PULLS THE WORLD TOGETHER
The typical mighty man or man of valour in our modern life is the
Organizer or Artist.
If a man has succeeded in being a great organizer, it is because he has
succeeded in organizing himself.
A man who has organized himself is a man who has built a personality.
The main fact about a man who has succeeded in being an organized man or
personality is, that he has ordered himself around.
Naturally, when other people have to be ordered around, being
full-head-on in the habit of ordering, even ordering himself, the
hardest feat of all, he is the man who has to be picked out to order
other people. As a rule the man who orders himself around successfully,
who makes his whole nature or all parts of himself work together, does
it because he takes pains to find out who he is and what he is like. If
he orders other men successfully and makes them work together it is
because he knows what they are like.
A man knows what other people are like and bow they feel by having times
of being a little like them and by being a big, latent all-possible,
all-round kind of man.
Leadership follows.
Modern business consists in getting Inventors' minds and Hewers' minds
to work together. The ruler of modern business is the man who by
experience or imagination is half an Inventor himself, and half a Hewer
himself. He knows how inventing feels and how hewing feels.
He has a southern exposure toward Hewers and makes Hewers feel
identified with him. He has what might be called an eastern exposure
toward men of genius, understands the inventive temperament, has the
kind of personality that e
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