Thoughts to Build On

to the expectations of those who promoted YOU; you co-
operate wholeheartedly with all company policies; you
participate enthusiastically in all company activities; you
"fit in" perfectly as an accepted, welcome member of the
management team. Naturally, you "survive" in your new
job. Why? Specifically, because you have used the first
principle of survival which has been proven throughout the
ages since the very beginning of life, itself.
So, being "in", accepted, safe, secure-you are
in a position to use the second principle of survival: Having
first adjusted-improve what you then are. So begin im-
proving yourself, your work-effectiveness, your employee-
management cooperation. Take, as your business motto:
"How can I do it better?" Make constant improvement a
way of life.
The unaccepted outsider who demands im-
provement of our business, social, or political structure will
generate great annoyance, irritation, resentment and resist-
ance-while the accepted conformist can work from the
inside for gradual, acceptable improvement at a rate ad-
justed to the tolerance of that which is to be improved.
The teaching of first adapting, adjusting, "fitting
in," conforming, will not be welcome or acceptable to the
exhibitionists, egocentrics, show-offs and all those who are
burdened by a warped psvchosis which can onlv be fulfilled
by attracting attention to themselves by their own non-
conformity.
Nor will the lessons of this chapter be accepted
by the revolutionaries who attempt to force, emotionally