homemoney to purchasehow They soaked up the atmosphere of business round the family breakfast table; they studied the practice of management from the example their grandfathers and fathers set; they were given responsibility in business in the same natural stages as they were given it for the conduct of the rest of their lives. Today, however, in size alone many businesses have far outgrown the capacity of any family to supply managers : although the small firms are more numerous, the large ones employ a growing share of the total industrial workers. They set the pace and provide the foundations for the small firms. Business and this has also been already stressed has also become more complex in its relations with the rest of the life of the community. It is more closely geared financially and by legislation to the needs and policies of central governments, of local authorities, and of other countries and international organizations. Lastly, business has developed its techniques and increased its power so that ever more skilful and flexible methods of control are essential. Managements have developed such methods of control, but effort and experience to learn and understand them and experience to use them are required; methods of training the coming managers in their use must be evolved, and it is the evolution of such training methods that is so important and interesting in the field of management training today. In spile of this growing recognition of the need for the training of managers, there are seen all too frequently the horrid instances of businesses which have neglected to consider how the future management is to be provided. Firms who lose a key man through air crash or motor accident, or whose senior executives have grown old together and are due to retire within the next few years, with no replacements ready; or firms who face the slow loss of markets through the lack of the energy and imagination of younger men in the manager's offices; these have all neglected to cultivate their own garden and must bargain in the open market place for the management talent they need. Their cries for help are to be seen in the 'tombstones' in the Sunday newspaper and by the emergence of 'management selection' experts whose job is to find staff. In recent years there has been an interesting development in the matter of staff selection. This has been the emergence of consultant organizations whose sole object is the finding of suitable men and women for the more senior posts that industry is finding it increasingly difficult to fill from inside. These consultants of whom Management Selection Limited might be described as the pioneer in Great Britain approach the job systematically by careful analysis of the job and its background. Not least they study the personalities with whom the new appointee will have to work, a vital assessment indeed. The functions of the service are not always clearly understood. to buy a house