THE PRESIDENT’S MESSAGE
Some things you don’t hear anymore:
Be sure and refill the ice trays, we are going to have company after while. Watch for the postman, I want to get this letter in the mail today.Quit slamming that screen door!Be sure to pull the windows down when you leave, it looks like it might shower -- and bring in the clothes on the line, too.Don't forget to wind the clock before you go to bed.Wash your feet before you go to bed, they are nasty from playing bare footed outside all day.Why can't you remember to roll up your pants legs? Getting them caught in the bicycle chain so many times is tearing them up.You have torn the knees out of that pair of pants so many times there is nothing left to put a patch on.Don't you go outside with your good school clothes on!Hang up your Sunday School clothes, you know you need to pass them down to your brother in good condition.Go comb your hair. It looks like the rats have nested in it all night.Be sure and pour the cream off the top of the milk when you open the new bottle. I need it for baking and Pa's coffee.Take that empty bottle to the store with you so you won't have to pay a deposit on another one.Put a dish towel over the cake so the flies won't get on it.Quit jumping on the floor! I have a cake in the oven and you are going to make it fall if you don't quit!Let me know when the Fuller Brush man comes by, I need to get a few things from him. You boys stay close by, the car may not start and I will need you to help push it off. There is a dollar in my purse, go by the service station and get five gallons of gas when you start to town.
Happy Birthday Sleep At Night Test!
Adapted from The Rotarian:
It is the 75th Birthday of The Four-Way Test. Started by a Rotarian facing a crisis in his business, Herbert J. Taylor took a pen to paper and wrote down what he believed would help his company out of hard times.
IS IT THE TRUTH?
IS IT FAIR TO ALL CONCERNED?
WILL IT BUILD GOOD WILL AND BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
WILL IT BE BENEFICIAL TO ALL CONCERNED?
Club Aluminum was the company Taylor headed during a time it was facing certain bankruptcy. It was smack in the middle of The Great Depression, and Taylor believed that if he could convince his employees to follow these, they might win sales from their competition. It took five years but Club Aluminum was back in the black. Taylor gave full credit to the Four-Way Test with saving his company. In 1943, Rotary International adopted the test as its own. In 1954, Taylor became RI President.
It has been called a model of business ethics and a great thing to follow to sleep soundly at night. Given what we’ve seen in the way of business scandals, you wonder had the Four Way Test hung on the walls of some of these CEOs if things might not have been different for say, Enron, Mattel, Worldcom, and others.
Walgreens is one company that has adopted the Four Way Test as its own. The company today tries to expose their 200,000 employees to it so that they can follow its precepts.
Whatever you do to put food on the table, are you following the Four Way Test? It is guiding you to be the best in your line of work? Is it allowing your employees to be the best they can?
How are you sleeping?
Some things you don’t hear anymore:
Be sure and refill the ice trays, we are going to have company after while. Watch for the postman, I want to get this letter in the mail today.Quit slamming that screen door!Be sure to pull the windows down when you leave, it looks like it might shower -- and bring in the clothes on the line, too.Don't forget to wind the clock before you go to bed.Wash your feet before you go to bed, they are nasty from playing bare footed outside all day.Why can't you remember to roll up your pants legs? Getting them caught in the bicycle chain so many times is tearing them up.You have torn the knees out of that pair of pants so many times there is nothing left to put a patch on.Don't you go outside with your good school clothes on!Hang up your Sunday School clothes, you know you need to pass them down to your brother in good condition.Go comb your hair. It looks like the rats have nested in it all night.Be sure and pour the cream off the top of the milk when you open the new bottle. I need it for baking and Pa's coffee.Take that empty bottle to the store with you so you won't have to pay a deposit on another one.Put a dish towel over the cake so the flies won't get on it.Quit jumping on the floor! I have a cake in the oven and you are going to make it fall if you don't quit!Let me know when the Fuller Brush man comes by, I need to get a few things from him. You boys stay close by, the car may not start and I will need you to help push it off. There is a dollar in my purse, go by the service station and get five gallons of gas when you start to town.
Happy Birthday Sleep At Night Test!
Adapted from The Rotarian:
It is the 75th Birthday of The Four-Way Test. Started by a Rotarian facing a crisis in his business, Herbert J. Taylor took a pen to paper and wrote down what he believed would help his company out of hard times.
IS IT THE TRUTH?
IS IT FAIR TO ALL CONCERNED?
WILL IT BUILD GOOD WILL AND BETTER FRIENDSHIPS?
WILL IT BE BENEFICIAL TO ALL CONCERNED?
Club Aluminum was the company Taylor headed during a time it was facing certain bankruptcy. It was smack in the middle of The Great Depression, and Taylor believed that if he could convince his employees to follow these, they might win sales from their competition. It took five years but Club Aluminum was back in the black. Taylor gave full credit to the Four-Way Test with saving his company. In 1943, Rotary International adopted the test as its own. In 1954, Taylor became RI President.
It has been called a model of business ethics and a great thing to follow to sleep soundly at night. Given what we’ve seen in the way of business scandals, you wonder had the Four Way Test hung on the walls of some of these CEOs if things might not have been different for say, Enron, Mattel, Worldcom, and others.
Walgreens is one company that has adopted the Four Way Test as its own. The company today tries to expose their 200,000 employees to it so that they can follow its precepts.
Whatever you do to put food on the table, are you following the Four Way Test? It is guiding you to be the best in your line of work? Is it allowing your employees to be the best they can?
How are you sleeping?
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