Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity; . f those he gathered around him he made a workingforce of and directed it steadily at the objectivepoint. Thus, in one word, the secret of his businessis effectiveness, and the secret of its its organization, and here his powers are at theirhighest. Whenever he undertakes a great building;project he first organizes it in every department andldetail until the whole becomes an engine with its;potentiality centered under his
Historic homes and institutions and genealogical and personal memoirs of Worcester County, Massachusetts, with a history of Worcester society of antiquity; . f those he gathered around him he made a workingforce of and directed it steadily at the objectivepoint. Thus, in one word, the secret of his businessis effectiveness, and the secret of its its organization, and here his powers are at theirhighest. Whenever he undertakes a great building;project he first organizes it in every department andldetail until the whole becomes an engine with its;potentiality centered under his hand. He reduces;every detail to a science and then studies it in its>relation to every other detail, and thus masteringrthem all comes to know and understand the a man knows and understands the five fingers offhis hand and how to use them. Although he has devoted thirty years to busi-ness and has reached the age of sixty success hasjnot abated Mr. Bishops efTorts nor has its rewardsispoiled his energy. He gives to his business today*the same constant care and attention as in the earlyvyears when he was struggling for recognition. Theni *. WORCESTER COUNTY 17 /o the succe>s of his first uiuk-rtaking, thougli amount-ing to Init a few thousand dollars, meant the goodor bad beginnings of his reputation, and it is onlytoo natural that the young contractor should haveexerted himself to the utmost; but today with abusiness running annually into the millions he is asjealous of the maintenance of that reputation ashe was thirty years ago of its building up, andto that end the successful man of sixty feels him-self as much bound by his business and his obliga-tions to his clients as he was as a struggling be-ginner. A recognized expert in matters of con-struction Mr. Bishops opinion and judgment arenaturally widely sought, and many of the best knownarchitects and engineers in the country are glad tosupplement their technical knowledge with his wideand practical experienc
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