9/6 Human Geo
Message to Garcia notes
- During Spanish-American war (1899)
- McKinley needs a message sent to Garcia (got this wrong in the other post, ignore that)
- Rowan delivers the message with no questions asked
- Hubbard was taken aback by Rowan's work and writes this whole thing about it.
- Rant about how lazy people are and how people need to be more like Rowan.
- People make excuses to get out of doing work even if it's your job to do
- Wants to beat his workers with a stick and fire them
- Thinks the average American worker is going to get drunk and forget what they're doing while they're working.
- His sympathy resides with the employers and higher-up's instead of the workers.
- If someone is a slacker, fire them.
- It doesn't matter how many people you fire, you have to keep doing it until you get a good one that knows what they're doing.
- A bad business man can't give or take orders.
- Compares bad workers to cripples
- Lazy people bad (sums up the whole thing)
- A good worker wont give a hard time and does things the first time they're told, or even without having to be told.
Excellence notes
Message to Garcia publication
- Reprinted as a pamphlet and book
- 40 million copies were sold to employers who wanted to give their employees an example of how to act and work.
- Printed in 37 languages.
- Made into a movie twice in 1916 & 1936
- "Take a message to Garcia" became a popular phrase for taking initiative.
- McKinley: 25th pres., assassinated after 6 months in his second term by anarchist.
- Tallest mountain in America was named after McKinley, renamed in 2015 to Denali.
Vocab:
- Perihelion: point where planet is closest to the sun, therefore at its brightest.
- Slipshod: Careless, lackadasical
- Imbecility: Incapability, stupidity
- Stenographer: Takes dictation in shorthand.
- Missive: a letter especially a long or official one.
Hubbard philosophy of initiative:
"What is initiative? I'll tell you: it is doing the right thing without being told." - Elbert Hubbard
- During Spanish-American war (1899)
- McKinley needs a message sent to Garcia (got this wrong in the other post, ignore that)
- Rowan delivers the message with no questions asked
- Hubbard was taken aback by Rowan's work and writes this whole thing about it.
- Rant about how lazy people are and how people need to be more like Rowan.
- People make excuses to get out of doing work even if it's your job to do
- Wants to beat his workers with a stick and fire them
- Thinks the average American worker is going to get drunk and forget what they're doing while they're working.
- His sympathy resides with the employers and higher-up's instead of the workers.
- If someone is a slacker, fire them.
- It doesn't matter how many people you fire, you have to keep doing it until you get a good one that knows what they're doing.
- A bad business man can't give or take orders.
- Compares bad workers to cripples
- Lazy people bad (sums up the whole thing)
- A good worker wont give a hard time and does things the first time they're told, or even without having to be told.
Excellence notes
Message to Garcia publication
- Reprinted as a pamphlet and book
- 40 million copies were sold to employers who wanted to give their employees an example of how to act and work.
- Printed in 37 languages.
- Made into a movie twice in 1916 & 1936
- "Take a message to Garcia" became a popular phrase for taking initiative.
- McKinley: 25th pres., assassinated after 6 months in his second term by anarchist.
- Tallest mountain in America was named after McKinley, renamed in 2015 to Denali.
Vocab:
- Perihelion: point where planet is closest to the sun, therefore at its brightest.
- Slipshod: Careless, lackadasical
- Imbecility: Incapability, stupidity
- Stenographer: Takes dictation in shorthand.
- Missive: a letter especially a long or official one.
Hubbard philosophy of initiative:
"What is initiative? I'll tell you: it is doing the right thing without being told." - Elbert Hubbard
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