IMITATION AS A MEANS OF INCREASING HUMAN EFFICIENCY Make More Money Online – Best Online Business Opportunities – Starting a Home Based Business

Why are some successful and others not? Can the company you keep determine your chances for success? Are you using imitation to build yourself a successful business? If you spend time with those having good habits, you will have good habits yourself.

Even though you may not yet have developed the posture of good leadership skills, you can lean on the skills of a good business development coach/mentor to get your business up and going.

True wisdom is easy to spot…its timeless. If you are trying to make more money online, search out nuggets of time tested wisdom to help propel you from where you are to where your want to be.

Old books and articles are great! It can be interesting to look back in time and see how life and popular views have changed over the span of a generation or two, including the progression of thought in areas of business and commerce. Sometimes seeing what hasn’t changed is just as interesting as what has stayed the same.

If we look back, are there any business principles or practices that still apply to commerce on the Internet and using the best online business opportunities to make more money online today.

Here are some thoughts from the early 1900’s…

"…The acts of those whom I admire are particularly contagious, but I remain indifferent to the acts of those who are uninteresting. Acts showing a skill to which I aspire are immediately imitated, while acts representing stages of development from which I have escaped are less likely to be imitated. We imitate the acts of hearty, jovial individuals more than the acts of others. This point cannot be pressed too far since a surly and selfish individual often seems to corrupt a whole group. Also it is not always the acts which I admire that are imitated. If I am frequently with a lame person, I am in danger of acquiring a limp; one who stutters is clearly injurious to my freedom of speech; round-shouldered friends may at first cause me to straighten up, but soon I am in danger of a droop.

That imitation is merely something to be avoided by teachers, employers, and foremen is an idea soon banished when the importance and complexity of the process is comprehended. In teaching we find precept inferior to example wherever the latter is possible. Particularly in teaching all sorts of acts of skill the imitation of perfect models is the first resort. In business, however, insufficient consideration has been given to the possibilities of imitation in increasing human efficiency.

… Business men who had been especially successful in dealing with employees were asked the following questions:

In increasing the efficiency of your employees do you utilize imitation by:

(1) placing efficient workmen where they may be imitated by the less efficient?

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