Excerpt from Works Administration: Lectures Before the Students of the Leland Stanford Junior University, Palo Alto, California You have an advantage here not enjoyed so far as I know by the students of any similar institution in this country - that of an instructor who has himself been a work's manager, and is able to follow the problems here treated to their ultimate application. I may also mention this qualification as a succession, and perhaps to some extent an inspiration from one of the most successful teachers of constructive engineering that this or any other country can boast, Prof. John E. Sweet. Sweet's boys, as they are called, always found something to do when they went out into the world, as he termed it, and there is this encouragement in the scheme of lectures on shop management that the reputation of Sweet's boys grew out of his attempt, in a greater degree than ever before or since, to teach application and administrative matters. I say administration, because in most cases an education here, or in other institutions of the kind, is pursued with reference to direct ing and planning the work of other people, also as a stock in trade, so to speak, to be balanced against money, capital, and in other ways, but always involving management of some kind. This art of management is unfortunately a subject that by its nature is personal, and for that reason concealed. A great share of it is confidential in respect to a works or a business. It includes to some extent methods and processes, that is, methods and processes personal to a manager, or peculiar to himself, invented we may call it, or regarded in the light of invention. This is proved by the fact that the power of management is in business in a sense considered separately from skill, or even technical knowledge, and, as every one knows, constitutes a valuable consideration in the hands of any one who has made a success in this way. About the Publisher Forgotten Books publishes hundreds of thousands of rare and classic books. Find more at www.forgottenbooks.com This book is a reproduction of an important historical work. Forgotten Books uses state-of-the-art technology to digitally reconstruct the work, preserving the original format whilst repairing imperfections present in the aged copy. In rare cases, an imperfection in the original, such as a blemish or missing page, may be replicated in our edition. We do, however, repair the vast majority of imperfections successfully; any imperfections that remain are intentionally left to preserve the state of such historical works.