But this version was a bit longer, with an interesting foreword by the author. This little story might be a good idea to distribute in businesses all over the world and it might raise the loyalty, responsibility and initiative of the workers. Dec 03, Mark rated it it was amazing Recommends it for: every lazy american. Should be required reading for job applicants I see so many people with an "entitled" attitude for no apparent reason except that they exists.
Entitled to wages beyond their skill level just because they can't live off of what their education and experience dictates yet they don't want put in the time and effort to bring themselves up. Employees who can't just do the job at hand but seem to spend more energy throbbing to wok.
This should be required reading for job applicants - then test them on Should be required reading for job applicants I see so many people with an "entitled" attitude for no apparent reason except that they exists. This should be required reading for job applicants - then test them on their understanding of it. Nov 28, Tim rated it really liked it. Somewhat inspirational, but really seems an awful lot like some form of corporate propaganda.
Work hard, do good ect.. I work in a cubicle so I think that I am naturally susceptible to this. Astonishly brilliant in its simplicity. A must read for its message. Oct 28, Fed rated it it was amazing. This long essay, written by Elbert Hubbard, is a speech that needs to be consumed in its entirety; from the beginning to the end, the point that the author is trying to make builds on the previous paragraphs creating crescendo intensity and meaning for the readers.
The message in this essay is powerful: be a person of integrity, keep your word, and carry out the work that you are asked to do quickly, efficiently, and with integrity. Civilization is one long, anxious search for just such individuals. Anything such a man asks shall be granted.
He is wanted in every city, town and village - in every office, shop, store and factory. Jul 14, Cyndi added it. He uses a story about a military man following orders as an excuse to berate workers. Unfortunately, he does not take into account that a person in the military is trained to follow orders without question.
In his example, the President of the United States gives a message to a Lieutenant, ordering him to carry the message to a rebel leader in Cuba. Hubbard thinks it shows good work ethic that the man did not quest a very short pamphlet about an employer who is angry at his apathetic work force.
Hubbard thinks it shows good work ethic that the man did not question his orders, just did the job. Of course he didn't question his orders, it was the President of the United States, for heaven's sake! He wouldn't have questioned the orders from any superior officer, much less the Commander in Chief. Don't compare a military man to a regular employee.
It's unfair. If you want someone who will follow orders and work at the top of their game, hire a vet. They always take pride in doing their duty.
I read this book briskly and then again. It is a very concise get to work book. The idiology it espouses is to do, not to say.
By that I mean that you should be getting things done and making things happen, in stead of asking questions on what you should specifically be doing. The message that comes from this for leaders is to have your people read this book, if they whine, then tell them "message to Garcia" and that battle cry will help them focus back to getting the mission accomplished whatev I read this book briskly and then again.
The message that comes from this for leaders is to have your people read this book, if they whine, then tell them "message to Garcia" and that battle cry will help them focus back to getting the mission accomplished whatever it is. My experience with staff work is that people become efficient at finding other people to do work. Inevtiably you need to have someone who actually does work, or you run out of people who do things.
This book is strongly chastising those people who don't work, and praising those who do. It was okay. The downside, now that I have gone too long, is that it does not have any requirement for leadership. The focus of this book is to work hard, and if you are lucky you will have people who work hard, work for you. Other than that, you do absolutely nothing to guide or lead them, or even to bring them to a point where their work is useful, you just send them on their way to figure it out.
This seems less efficient, but I guess if everyone wants to work 20 hours days, doing 10 hours of work, I guess this is the way to go Not really a book although I read a version with several other essays included. I was inspired to read this after a recent visit and tour of the Roycroft campus in East Aurora, New York.
Our guide talked about the essay and that it could be downloaded for free. I did this from Project Gutenberg. Following a discussion of the Spanish-American War with his son Elbert Hubbard, leader of the Roycroft community, wrote and published a short essay about workers and how they do their jobs using an analo Not really a book although I read a version with several other essays included.
Following a discussion of the Spanish-American War with his son Elbert Hubbard, leader of the Roycroft community, wrote and published a short essay about workers and how they do their jobs using an analogy to an event during the Spanish-American War.
A man named Rowan was asked by an American commander to get a message to the leader of the rebels in Cuba. This man did not ask how or why, he simply took the message sneaked into Cuba, found the leader, Garcia , and delivered it.
The essay speaks to the issue that workers and this was a century ago will question any work request, question the employer and not necessarily complete the request. When published it "went viral" and was published and handed out all over the world in many languages. Russian soldiers were each given a copy, Chinese railroad workers had them and so on. Worth the few minutes it takes to read and widely available on- line.
Jun 24, Bria rated it it was amazing. Hubbard did a fantastic job of succinctly describing the two opposite views of work. Those who make it happen, and those who use excuses and questions to drag their feet to not work or try.
A great view into late s and how people don't really change. There are those who want to work, and those who don't in every era. It's so easy to make excuses for not succeeding, the easiest being shifting the blame onto others, usually their previous or current boss. Sometimes the boss is at fault, but ofte Hubbard did a fantastic job of succinctly describing the two opposite views of work. Sometimes the boss is at fault, but oftentimes it's the person themselves. Laziness, Netflix, no goals, inability to focus, no work ethic and assumption that money just comes easier for other people all come together to ruin performance at work.
Success isn't always a huge amount of money, and your name plastered everywhere. It can be just being smart with money, taking all opportunities that come your way, making goals and listening to those you work for. A message to Garcia should be seen as a jolt to it's reader. It causes the reader to look at themselves and see which category they fit in; those who work and succeed, and those who can't get out of their own way to move forward. Years ago my father mentioned to me that people used to recite "A Message to Garcia", kind of like they'd recite the Gettysburg address as shown in the musical "A Music Man".
I'd never heard of it. As part of my efforts to show Dad that the internet was useful for something , I googled it up, and read him the first line. And he said "Yup, that's it! It wasn't until this week that I read the whole thing, even though it's quite short. It's gist is "Just Do It": Years ago my father mentioned to me that people used to recite "A Message to Garcia", kind of like they'd recite the Gettysburg address as shown in the musical "A Music Man". It's gist is "Just Do It": Don't quibble, don't question, don't whine, don't shirk.
Take the task, figure it out, and do it. I can see why Dad liked it. I have to say, though, that some of the specific advice is a little wonky. If my boss said to me "Please look in the encyclopedia and make a brief memorandum for me concerning the life of Correggio," then the chances are good I'd ask how to spell it, when the memo was due, and what project to charge my time to.
All of which would apparently mark me as "incapable of independent action" and unwilling to "to cheerfully catch hold and lift". Sep 12, Lene Jaqua rated it it was amazing.
It is a fun little story about not asking too many questions of your superiors but simply figuring it out once you are given a task to do. The story is about a soldier Rowan in the Cuban war, who needs to get a message to General Garcia on Cuba. Yet, the story is less about how he actually does so, and more an ear : Read this because my second Naval Academy son had a detailer who bombarded their company with this message this summer. Yet, the story is less about how he actually does so, and more an early 20th century moralizing op ed about how few enough people have the initiative to figure things out on their own.
As a curiosity piece, it is priceless. This wonderful work is either loved or hated. A classic short treatise about getting the job done.
The easiest way to describe this work is "just get it done" and quit whining. The author laments there are not enough men to get the job done and most need to have their hand held and this was written in ! It is about responsibility and self-reliance. This work is every bit as valid today as it was at the turn of the 20th-century.
This should be required reading for all on the verge of adulthoo This wonderful work is either loved or hated. This should be required reading for all on the verge of adulthood and the adults that still do not understand it is up to them to be adults.
Not that you will injure went out, and soon orders began to come for extra the institution--not that--but when you disparage the copies of the March "Philistine," a dozen, fifty, a concern of which you are a part, you disparage hundred; and when the American News Company yourself.
And don't forget--"I forgot" won't do in ordered a thousand, I asked one of my helpers which business. In any event, when he got home he had the matter Daniels, of the New York Central Railroad, thus: "Give translated into Russian, and a copy of the booklet price on one hundred thousand Rowan article in given to every railroad employee in Russia.
During the war between Russia pamphlets in two years. Our facilities were small and and Japan, every Russian soldier who went to the a hundred thousand booklets looked like an awful front was given a copy of the "Message to Garcia. The Japanese, finding the booklets in possession of the The result was that I gave Mr. Daniels permission to Russian prisoners, concluded that it must be a good reprint the article in his own way.
He issued it in thing, and accordingly translated it into Japanese. Two or three of these half-million lots were sent out by Mr. Daniels, And on an order of the Mikado, a copy was given to and in addition the article was reprinted in over two every man in the employ of the Japanese Government, hundred magazines and newspapers.
It has been soldier or civilian. Over forty million copies of "A translated into all written languages. Message to Garcia" have been printed. At the time Mr. Daniels was distributing the "Message This is said to be a larger circulation than any other to Garcia," Prince Hilakoff, Director of Russian literary venture has ever attained during the lifetime Railways, was in this country.
He was the guest of the of the author, in all history--thanks to a series of lucky New York Central, and made a tour of the country accidents! The Prince saw the little book and was interested in it, more because Mr. Daniels was putting it out in such big numbers, probably, than otherwise. Initiative see that he does it; he is always out of job, and receives the contempt he deserves, unless he happens to have a rich Pa, in which case Destiny patiently awaits around The world bestows its big prizes, both in money and a corner with a stuffed club.
And that is Initiative. To which class do you belong? What is Initiative? But next to doing the thing without being told is to do it when you are told once. That is to say, carry the Message to Garcia: those who can carry a message get high honors, but their pay is not always in proportion.
Next, there are those who never do a thing until they are told twice; such get no honors and small pay. Next, there are those who do the right thing only when necessity kicks them from behind, and these get indifference instead of honors, and a pittance for pay.
This kind spends most of its time polishing a bench with a hard-luck story. By Elbert Hubbard The point I wish to make is this: McKinley gave Rowan a letter to be delivered to Garcia; Rowan took In all this Cuban business there is one man stands out the letter and did not ask, "Where is he at? It is not book-learning young men with the leader of the Insurgents. Garcia was need, nor instruction about this and that, but a somewhere in the mountain vastness of Cuba- no one stiffening of the vertebrae which will cause them to be knew where.
Rowan included. He just took the letter and in three weeks found a way to deliver it to the Cuban insurgent. Because, in his opinion, most people are, simply put, flawed and spoiled. They start asking questions, trying to find a way out of performing a task. Most of them ask for help even before they examining the nature of the task; and quite a few of them think how to. They have no work ethic whatsoever and would rather do away with jobs altogether than do them.
Socialism Will Never Work 3. Prior to the Spanish-American War, 1 st Lt. Andrew Rowan was given the daunting task of transferring an important message from the 25 th U. President, William McKinley to Gen. He just took the letter, sealed it and delivered it in three weeks. In other words, he was one of the very few people who do their jobs properly. No questions asked, no help required.
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