But when, at an early stage, I had to manage serious enterprises and to deal with men, and when each mistake would lead at once to heavy consequences, I began to appreciate the difference between acting on the principle of command and discipline, and acting on the principle of common understanding.
He emphasizes the importance of understanding and collaboration over strict command in leadership.
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Cottons, plain linen, and machine-made lace are now produced at such a low cost by machinery that hand-weaving evidently becomes an anachronism for the plainest descriptions of such goods.
At Oyonnax, a small town on the Ain, we have a big centre for the fabrication of combs, an industry more than 200 years old, which took a new development since the last war through the invention of celluloid.
That so small an area of land can produce so much wealth is nothing short of astonishing.
They are entirely in our institutions, in our inheritances and survivals from the past--in the “Ghosts” which oppress us.
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