Date: 1921-10-15
Source: ru:PSS/v53

Source: PSS, Volume 53

15. X.

Comrade Avanesov! Should we transfer a portion of the heavy‑industrial and transport enterprises from the VSNKh to the NKPS?
(In connection with yesterday’s discussion) 312.

We must engage the consumer’s interest.

Think it over.

With comradely greetings, Lenin

Regarding warehouse operations: Is it possible to establish the following policy:
Warehouse employees shall receive bonuses for clearing 1/8, 1/4, or 1/2 of a warehouse—if they successfully distribute (deliver) its contents directly to state production enterprises (factories, state farms, and the like).

Similarly, recipients at the warehouses shall receive equivalent bonuses for delivering goods to those same factories and so forth.

Without personal stakeholder engagement, nothing will get done. We must learn how to effectively motivate and engage people.

And Troyanovsky is not intelligent. You will be held personally accountable for such a “traitor.”

Keep that in mind.

We need a truly astute individual here.

Lenin

“Komsomolskaya Pravda,” No. 17

First published in full in 1928.

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Written on October 15, 1921.

First published, in incomplete form,

on January 21, 1927, in the newspaper

and in Volume VIII of the Lenin Collection.

Printed from the manuscript.