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HOW TO GET ON
A Business Series of Practical
Inspiration
PERSONALITY :
AN ASSET
by George Edgar
T O D A Y where you find leaders really physical strength. I dined at a
of men, there in the main are club in London, which draws together
the dominating personalities. men who count in their particular activi­
It has always been true that ties. The membership list includes some
personality with ability will go of the most distinguished workers in
further than ability alone. The modest London.
efficient man gets a good place and is I recall that the guest of the eve­
well found in work and wages, but he ning was the late Lord Strathcona, per­
rarely occupies the center of the stage haps Canada's greatest personality, who
where leaders monopolize the limelight. carried a wonderfully successful career
The magnetic personal qualities of the over a span of years seldom vouchsafed
successful man have been apparent in to man, and died rich in honor at the age
every age and generation, and among of ninety-four. Around him were men
all nationalities. The value set on personality
today stands higher than ever it
did before, in a world tending to stand­
who had succeeded in many walks of life.
ardize everything and everybody. The
habit of referring to groups of a thousand
workers as "hands" is not without
significance.
Personality is a mixture of many influences,
but the manner of its employment
certainly implies an individual outlook
and the self-consciousn-ess which permit
a man to determine his actions zrithout
being too much obsessed by precedents.
When one looks at the conventional definition,
an important fact emerges. Personality
is really a matter cf physical
strength and fitness.
I recall the first direct impression I received
that the secret of personality is
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