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The subject of this book is of immense importance to all Americans. To be sure, these chapters deal only with one part of the whole problem of incentives, of motivation in our society. But this is a big segment; it is of broad general consequence to all of us that which they are capable. No matter how far from capacity our workers perform, if executives continue to strive to the limit, if they are alert to new ideas, vigorous in their implementation, and wise in their appraisal, we can still progress at the rate necessary to meet competition overseas and our internal needs for growth. But if the general slackening of effort in our society and the widespread acceptance of low standards of both performance and effort were to extend fully to executives, there would indeed be cause for gloom and foreboding in this republic.
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