. Bell telephone magazine . system ofservice the world has ever seen. Times have changed since the olddays when a man who owned a busi-ness always managed it too. The mill, the factory, the shop, the storewere run by the men who put upthe money. Thousands of businessesare still operated that way. But inthe large businesses like ours a largegroup of people, usually starting atthe bottom of the ladder and workingup, now run the business for theowners, employees, and public. These people are management is a profession. Ittakes training, initiative, and far-sightedness—or the three
. Bell telephone magazine . system ofservice the world has ever seen. Times have changed since the olddays when a man who owned a busi-ness always managed it too. The mill, the factory, the shop, the storewere run by the men who put upthe money. Thousands of businessesare still operated that way. But inthe large businesses like ours a largegroup of people, usually starting atthe bottom of the ladder and workingup, now run the business for theowners, employees, and public. These people are management is a profession. Ittakes training, initiative, and far-sightedness—or the three ships men-tioned earlier. Management people at all levelsmust make decisions. When addedup, these decisions can affect, forgood or bad, the future of the busi-ness, the security of employees, andthe savings of investors. All this is a large order. Successis determined by how well the cap-tains know the seas. From the Items for Alanage-nient bulletin of the LongLines Department of A. T. o T. te AAA^/VM^r One Spring iq ft I. The First 75 Years • Ralph E. Mooney The Big Little Things of Bell System OperationMyrtus A. Davis % Seeing Ourselves as Others See Us • C. Theodore Smith The Foundation of the Bell Systems Abilityto Serve the Nation Metropolitan Service for Suburbanites • Peter A. Dolan, Jr. Human-Interest Aspects of Stockholder CorrespondenceJohn K. Torbert x \canlelebhone &^ekwaph Company -MewmK Bell Tclcphonc^dam^e Spring 1951 The First 75 Years, Ralph E. Mooney, 5 Freedom to Serve in Freedoms Defense, 17 The Big Little Things of Bell System Operation,Myrtus A. Davis, 18 Seeing Ourselves as Others See Us, C. Theodore Smith, 26 The Foundation of the Bell Systems Abilityto Serve the Nation, 37 The Vision of a Man Named Bell, 38 Metropolitan Service for Suburbanites, Peter A. Do/an, Jr., 40 Test by Wreck and Storm, 49 Human-Interest Aspects of Stockholder Correspondence,John k. Torhert, ^4 25 Years Ago in the Bell Telephone Quarterly, 67 A Medium of Suggestion & a Re
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