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um Centripetal Power The Whirl-Out People The Centre People The Whirl-In People Alexander Graham Bell Telephone-Vail Hands Architect Contractor Carpenter Genius Artist Workmen Columbus Columbus Isabella and the sailors The Prospector The Engineer }Scoopers, Grabbers }(in mind or body), }Hewers David the poet David the king David the soldier Shakespeare Shakespeare Shakespeare CHAPTER XVIII THE MAN WHO PULLS THE WORLD TOGETHER The typical mighty man or man of valour in our modern life is the Organizer or Artist. If a man has succeeded in being a great organizer, it is because he has succeeded in organizing himself. A man who has organized himself is a man who has built a personality. The main fact about a man who has succeeded in being an organized man or personality is, that he has ordered himself around. Naturally, when other people have to be ordered around, being full-head-on in the habit of ordering, even ordering himself, the hardest feat of all, he is the man who has to be picked out to order other people. As a rule the man who orders himself around successfully, who makes his whole nature or all parts of himself work together, does it because he takes pains to find out who he is and what he is like. If he orders other men successfully and makes them work together it is because he knows what they are like. A man knows what other people are like and bow they feel by having times of being a little like them and by being a big, latent all-possible, all-round kind of man. Leadership follows. Modern business consists in getting Inventors' minds and Hewers' minds to work together. The ruler of modern business is the man who by experience or imagination is half an Inventor himself, and half a Hewer himself. He knows how inventing feels and how hewing feels. He has a southern exposure toward Hewers and makes Hewers feel identified with him. He has what might be called an eastern exposure toward men of genius, understands the inventive temperament, has the kind of personality that e
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