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to remove obstacles to a free flow of work, the per- 
sonnel gets used to dealing with fact. Their con- 
tinuing success in securing predetermined results by 
using these facts brings them to a point where they 
base all their decisions on facts. This scientific atti- 
tude toward the problems of business frees them 
from tradition and prejudice. 
“Every business man who has had experience in a 
specific line of work arrives at certain conclusions as 
to what things are wise to do and what are not wise. 
However, some men carry these conclusions over into 
conditions where they do not fit the facts, and the 
conclusions then become prejudices. The scientific 
point of view is that each situation is different, and 
must be met by judgment and experience which are 
not influenced by prejudice. 
“Of the many benefits resulting from the scientific 
organization of an industrial enterprise one of the 
most fundamental is this scientific attitude toward 
the problems of business. This might seem to be an 
intangible advantage, but it is possibly the most prac- 
tical of all. With this attitude an organization is no 
longer held back by the man who regards as impos- 
sible things which have not been done before; nor by 
the man who believes that results accomplished in 
one industry cannot be expected in another merely 
because it is different. The scientific man knows that, 
if a single element in any situation is changed, the 
entire condition is altered and what was apparently 
impossible then becomes possible.” 
It is this scientific objective attitude of dealing with