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P.T. 巴纳姆：奋斗与胜利·补录 521
P.T. 巴纳姆《奋斗与胜利》· Struggles and Triumphs · 领导
BE SYSTEMATIC.--Men should be systematic in their business. A person who does business by rule, having a time and place for everything, doing his work promptly, will accomplish twice as much and with half the trouble of him who does it carelessly and slipshod. By introducing system into all your transactions, doing one thing at a time, always meeting appointments with punctuality, you find leisure for pastime and recreation; whereas the man who only half does one thing, and then turns to something else and half does that, will have his business at loose ends, and will never know when his day’s work is done, for it never will be done. Of course there is a limit to all these rules. We must try to preserve the happy medium, for there is such a thing as being too systematic. There are men and women, for instance, who put away things so carefully that they can never find them again. It is too much like the “red tape” formality at Washington and Mr. Dickens’ “Circumlocution Office,”--all theory and no result.
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定位：Additional excerpt 521 · 核对日期：2026-10-19 · 核验：短摘录
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做事要有条理。按规则办事、每件事都有时间和地点、及时完成的人，花一半麻烦就能干出双倍成果；马虎潦草的人则相反。把系统引入所有事务，一次做一件事，约会守时，你就能腾出休闲时间；而一件事做一半又换另一件做一半的人，业务会一团乱麻，永远不知道当天工作何时结束，因为永远结束不了。当然，规则也有极限，要取中道，有人太有条理，东西收得太仔细反而找不到。核心是：系统提高效率，但别让系统变成形式主义。
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巴纳姆在自传中谈商业管理，既强调系统化，也提醒避免过度形式化。
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