114 proved plans to save a busy man time; tested plans for making every minute count-ways to keep work free from interruption-how to put your office and desk in effective time-saving trim-methods that help to speed up routine . running ourselves,usually involves a lot of detail. Thats why we are allconiinually looking for the best ways to save time. Per-haps an adaptation of the following plan will help. The manager of an eastern firm uses a planningboard to short-cut his daily routine and to watch gen-eral details with the least time and effort. This boardhe finds easy to operate and valuable
114 proved plans to save a busy man time; tested plans for making every minute count-ways to keep work free from interruption-how to put your office and desk in effective time-saving trim-methods that help to speed up routine . running ourselves,usually involves a lot of detail. Thats why we are allconiinually looking for the best ways to save time. Per-haps an adaptation of the following plan will help. The manager of an eastern firm uses a planningboard to short-cut his daily routine and to watch gen-eral details with the least time and effort. This boardhe finds easy to operate and valuable in a great manyways. It hangs on the wall of his office and really actaas a graphic representation of a card file for tabbingprogress of all work under his supervision. The device is approximately 7 feet high by 11 feetlong. It is built of wood and has been painted a mahog-any brown, and is divided into four sections—(1) ideas,(2) plans, (3) tasks, and (4) supervision, as shown inFigure 15. Perpendicular lines subdivide each of thesefour sections into columns, each of which is wide enoughto contain record cards four inches wide, with a smallmargin on either side. The cards are perforated at the 100 PLAN SEVENTY-EIGHT. Figure 15: This wallboard may do as much for you as it does forthe eastern business man who says it cut his daily routine squarelyin two. It saves him a lot of time, also, by answering^ questionswhich employees formerly took up his time with. Doubtless youlladmit that this wallboard has proved its worth. (See Plan 7S.) top SO that tliey may be readily attached to little brasshooks provided at intervals. In the upper left-hand corner of the board is thesection marked Ideas. Any idea or suggestion whichmight be useful to the business, whether it occurs to theexecutive, the manager of a department, or an employee,is briefly described on a pink card which is then hungup under this section, properly classified, and held forconsideration until the idea is abandoned o
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