A careful examination of the above methods of accomplishing the purposes of the Scout Executive's work yields the following few but vital items: 1) Study and Experience (Preparation and continued growth). 2) Personal Leadership (based on manly personal qualities). 3) Planning and checking Results. 4) Organization (ability to create and work it). 5) Team play (loyal and helpful). 6) Educative ability (For Training Courses. For publicity, which is educating the public). Ten "Must-s" for the Scout Executive Expanding these items and setting them down as "musts" for the Scout Executive, the following 10 things he should do seem to be essential. The Scout Executive 1) Must have keen, alert, analytic, tactful, careful mind. 2) Must be cheerful, affirmative, consistent, tolerant, "good-listener," "give-and-take," good fellow with spirit of humility and of reverence; must be actively religious and be animated by a deep love for boys. 3) Must know Scouting-its ideals, national and local policies and objectives. 4) Must have advance training for and knowledge of his job. It is unfair to ask the community to let him experiment on them to gain his experience. 5) Must be able to see need and situations in his community. (Easiest done as survey followed by careful counsel.) 6) Must be able to continuously educate his community through broad program of careful publicity. 7) Must be able to attract, secure, organize, train, supervise, and help men to do work with boys. 8) Must be able to plan a definite program of possible and needed service including the finances therefor. 9) Must be able to organize others to secure scheduled results; must maintain high community and staff morale; as an executive must therefore be a good "team-man" nationally and locally. 10) Must be able to check results. A Chicago Camp "Swimming Hole" What Qualities Should a Scout Executive In his book entitled "Leadership," Major A. H Miller, enumerates 16 points of leadership as follows: In A. W. Shaw Company's book "Executive Control," a number of executives were scored and the attempt made to indicate what part of the 100% executive each of the following ten qualities represented: Study of this list from the Scout viewpoint, make one immediately conscious of the high rating of Initiative, determination and experience and the low rating of training and disposition while character and health hobble along in between. These two lists with three other analyses are combined in the following table: National Field Scout Executive R. N. Berry has submitted the following interesting statement of "Desirable Qualifications for Successful Scout Executives." 7. Co-operative spirit. 8. Ability to grow with the work. 9. Faculty of putting himself in another's place. 10. Thorough knowledge of and loyal support for the National and local Council Constitution and ByLaws, Principles and Policies of the Movement. Study of these typical lists makes it perfectly clear that the aims of scouting are such that we must build our own statement. While the list might be expanded indefinitely these seem to naturally group themselves into four essential natural divisions shown on the next page. While each group is essential in the make-up of the successful executive and while weakness in one creates a problem for him which must be balanced by special strength elsewhere yet the careful thinker will distinguish differences in the importance rank of the groups. Ratings of these by 100 scout leaders revealed the following averages: While recognizing the value of this mass judgment, the editor herewith includes his own analysis: |