ABSTRACT
Comrades are the new conditions of development of industry. The significance of these new conditions is that they are creating a new state of affairs in industry, demanding new methods of work and new methods of leadership. In a word, it comes to this, that the new conditions of development of industry require new methods of working, but that certain of our business leaders have failed to see this and to realise that they have to adopt new methods of business management. Some business leaders are as remote from the new tasks of business organisation demanded by the new conditions as the earth is from the sky. They apparently believe that the difficulty in the supply of labour is a temporary phenomenon and that the scarcity will disappear also, so to speak, automatically. The new state of affairs was bound to bring about, and actually has brought about, a new mental attitude on the part of the old bourgeois intelligentsia.
