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This book written by L. Ron Hubbard was donated by:
Church of Scientology of Lausanne Rue Madeleine 10 CH - 1003 Lausanne
Switzerland
TO THE READER: Scientology is a religious philosophy containing
pastoral counseling procedures intended to assist an individual to gain
greater knowledge of self. The Mission of the Church of Scientology is a
simple one-to help the individual acheive greater self-confidence and
personal integrity, thereby enabling him to really trust and respect
himself and his fellow man. The attainment of the benefits and goals of
Scientology requires each individual's positive participation, as only
through his own efforts can he achieve these. This is part of the religious
literature and works of the Founder of Scientology, L. Ron Hubbard. It is
presented to the reader as part of the record of his personal research into
Life, and should be construed only as a written report of such research and
not as a statement of claims made by the Church or the author. Scientology
and its sub-study, Dianetics, as practiced by the Church, address only the
spiritual side of Man. Although the Church, as are all churches, is free to
engage in spiritual healing, it does not, as its primary goal is increased
knowledge and personal integrity for all. For this reason, the Church does
not wish to accept individuals who desire treatment of physical illness or
insanity, but refers these to qualified specialists in other organizations
who deal in these matters. The Hubbard Electrometer is a religious artifact
used in the Church confessional. It, in itself, does nothing, and is used
by Ministers only, to assist parishioners in locating areas of spiritual
distress or travail. We hope the reading of this book is only the first
stage of a personal voyage of discovery into the positive and effective
religion of Scientology. THE BOARD OF DIRECTORS Church of Scientology
YOUR POST A post in a Scientology Organization isn't a job. It's a
trust and a crusade. We're free men and women-probably the last free men
and women on Earth. Remember, we'll have to come back to Earth some day no
matter what "happens" to us. If we don't do a good job now we may never get
another chance. Yes, I'm sure that's the way it is. So we have an
organization, we have a field we must support, we have a chance. That's
more than we had last time night's curtain began to fall on freedom. So
we're using that chance. An organization such as ours is our best chance to
get the most done. So we're doing it! L. RON HUBBARD
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 8 SEPTEMBER 1969
Remimeo Item 1 OEC Chksht
THE ORG EXEC COURSE INTRODUCTION
This course contains the basic laws of organization. Primarily
intended for Scientology Organization Executives, its policy letters are
slanted toward a Scientology Org (short for organization). However, it
covers any organization and contains fundamentals vital to any successful
or profitable activity. This course also applies to the individual. Any
individual has his 7 (or 9) Divisions and his 21 (or 27) Departments. Where
one or more of these is missing in his conduct of life he will be to that
degree an unsuccessful individual. No matter how organized any company,
society or political entity will be as unsuccessful as it has these
functions missing. Thus this is not just the Scientology idea of how an org
should run-most of it is vital basic discovery. Man did not really know the
principles of organization any more than he knew what made his mind work
before Dianetics was published. A very small amount of the material on this
course has crept into general use, just as a very few of the principles of
Dianetics and Scientology are now an "Everybody knows - - ". Survival is
now conceded as the basic principle of existence. Universities now know Man
can change IQ and Personality. As time goes on more and more of the
technology "leaks" into general knowledge. But it takes a long time for all
Mankind to know a whole tech in this fashion. To date the Scientology
discoveries in organization are known to a very few. But some of the more
general principles are already creeping into business practice. Not long
ago, for instance, a close friend of the president of the U.S. was given
the Policy Letter about "Don't reward a down statistic". A few days later
the president used it in his new relief programme policy. Of course there
are hundreds of other "Pol Ltrs" that haven't been shown to the friend of
the president. It takes years for new ideas to "leak" into public
consciousness. It took five years for the medical professors in
universities to begin to teach that aberration could come from the "birth
engram". In 18 years, only a handful of medical doctors accepted that
mental image pictures caused aberration. In 19 years only a few medical
doctors could also audit. Therefore, if one were fully conversant with the
full subject and all its principles he would appear to be a magician, a
miracle worker. If anyone knew the Org Exec Course fully and could practise
it, he could completely reverse any down trending company or country.
Indeed, here and there at this writing men have done so. It could be argued
or pleaded that this huge body of data should be made into texts capable of
general application by businesses and countries. The one effort to
republish these policies in other terms so badly altered the material that
it became a hopeless bog even though attempted by a very successful
business man. He himself was applying the originals direct to his company
and it soaringly became rich. Then he decided to rewrite it all, greatly
altered and edited, for his employees and his business went on a toboggan
slide. His correct action would have been to send his employees to take the
same course he took-this very Org Exec Course. And let them adapt what they
now knew to fit their own posts and activities. Instead, he cut them off
from source and what he wrote for them was only as much as he had gotten
out of the course from his own viewpoint. At least there are Scientology
Orgs around which are successful living models of these policies and org
form. The only real trouble these orgs ever have is not a failure to apply
policy but a failure of the whole staff to know policy. Wherever a portion
of a Scientology org is in confusion you will find that the staff members
in that portion have not done the Org Exec Course. They may know a few
policies. But outside that anyone can come along and say "this is the
policy" or "what you're doing is against policy" and being ignorant of
policy they develop the idea of some vast unknown area and go downhill. The
name Org Exec Course is probably a misnomer. Certainly the executives of
the org should know it well. But the staff member who doesn't know it is at
effect. If he knew his OEC data he would be able to defend himself and get
his own "show on the road" in his portion of the org. ANY FAILURE OF THESE
BASICS AND POLICIES IS IGNORANCE OF THEM. When you know them all, not just
a few, it makes a whole intelligent picture. It is rather exciting to be
able to cut through the superstition of yesterday's organizations and deal
in basic down to earth fundamentals. When you understand all the policies
on this course, you will understand organization itself, no matter to what
you apply it. You will also be able to recognize mis-organization when you
see it. And I assure you that in a mis-organized society the individual
loses out. Even dictatorships come about only because the citizen doesn't
know basic organization. Thus authoritarian rule exists only to the degree
that its subjects are ignorant of the fundamentals of organization. Those
fundamentals, even if specialized to fit a Scientology organization, exist
in this, the Org Exec Course.
L. RON HUBBARD Founder
LRH: ldm.ei.rd Copyright c1969 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 21 MARCH 1967 Qual Div for action Ore Exec Course
Info Exec Sees Sees ORG EXEC COURSE Effective date April 15, 1967 In
addition to checkouts on HCO Pol Ltrs the Org Exec Course is expanded to
include the following (with the former materials mentioned again): 1. A
review of all former other admin activities pre-Scientology and disagree -
ments all off. Also Remedy A & B on Admin words and subjects to floating
needle. 2. Complete staff hat (regardless of staff status) with all comm
colour flashes, how to write desp, comm centre, etc. Drills between 2
students or more. 3. Admin procedures (those in use, such as where in-out
baskets sit, stale date, how to file, materials needed like stapler, staple
puller, sellotape, etc at an exec's desk, how to send and receive
despatches, where a telex is put on a desk, etc) so he can operate
effectively and on a standard pattern. Sample desks and drills between 2
students or more. 4. A fast resume of materials we have on how to study. 5.
A study of the pattern of the org including figuring out its evolution from
1950 from past Pol Ltrs, notes, guesses. All Pol Ltrs on pattern and theory
of 7 Div Board. Ends on ability to draw current org board from meniory with
Divs, Depts, Sections rapidly. 6. All Ethics Policy Letters covering both
theory and practice of Ethics with a study of the actual Ethics systems.
Include Chaplain's Court. 7. Study of org Pol Ltrs regarding Board, then
Exec Council, then LRH Comm data, Issue Authority, how to pass Pol Ltrs and
EDs, then Ad Council full procedures. 8. Study of Pol Ltrs Division by
Division. 9. Admin Know-How Pol Ltrs. 10. Remaining Pol Ltrs not covered
above. 11. Relationship, admin and financial, of LRH to orgs. 12. A thesis
of 500 or more words on the theory and practice of administration in Sen,
why it exists and what would happen if it didn't. The authority and action
for the exact listings under the above headings is the Qual Div Organizer
WW. (Note to Qual Div Org. The Pol Ltrs have been divided by Divs at SH. Do
not write new materials for this course, just gather and folder it and set
up a sample Exec Desk for part 3 above. Copy my desk and equipment for the
model of your practice desks. See any old SH WW LRH Comm for data on the
last.) L. RON HUBBARD Founder
LRH:jp.rd Copyright c 1967 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
[Note: No. 1 above was cancelled from OEC checksheet by LRH ED 691 INT
(1967).]
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 20 SEPTEMBER 1969
Remimeo
STABILITY
It can be said of companies, societies and governments that: THE BEST
GUARANTEE OF STABILITY IS ADMINISTRATIVE SKILL. In areas where the
abilities which add up to administrative skill are missing, the
organization or country can expect to fail or be overthrown. Even such
small things as file keeping, accounts records, personnel placement add up
to better longevity. The integrity of personnel is a large factor in
administration and a lack of skills with which to detect and handle false
reports and lack of compliance or failed performance of duty can all by
itself destroy management and the group. No matter what the intention of
those at the top, no matter how bright or honest they may be, if their
administrative lines are clumsy or in any way false, if they are not backed
up by skillful, well taught administrators, they can be nullified. The
plans and orders put "on the lines" seldom if ever arrive at the level of
the worker in the shop or the man in the street. The torrents of laws and
directives passed by legislators or even boards of directors are 90% of
them made necessary by earlier failures in getting earlier laws or
directives enforced. Bad administration, lack of know-how, lack of trained
clerks and executives, can defeat utterly any plan or programme no matter
how urgent or beneficial. The continuance of an organization and its
leaders can be said to be entirely dependent upon the skill, training and
integrity of those who handle the administrative lines, details and
contacts of the group.
L. RON HUBBARD Founder
LRHirs.ei.rd Copyright c 1969 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 4 OCTOBER 1969 Remimeo BPI ORGANIZATIONAL
ENTURBULENCE THE ENTURBULENCE (COMMOTION AND UPSET) IN AN ORGANIZATION IS
DIRECTLY PROPORTIONAL TO THE IGNORANCE OR ABSENCE OF POLICY AND PURPOSE. We
can see this easily in processing. Processing is a skilled technical
activity having precise steps and actions. When an auditor is ignorant of
these he gets into a horrible mess and the pc likewise. When a Case
Supervisor is having trouble it will be in direct proportion to his own and
his auditor's ignorance of correct and exact tech. The answer is to get
tech known and exactly used. When this is done, the trouble, upset and
commotion reduces to zero. In Dianetics and Scientology our tech is very
exact and when correctly applied produces exact, predictable results. So
getting our tech known and used by auditors cures any upset or commotion in
auditing or a group of auditors. Going a lot lower, let us consider a group
that has no tech or inadequate tech. If it engages in treatment there will
be upset because of lack of adequate tech. This could be said to be the
case of psychoanalysis where 33% of the patients commit suicide in the
first three months according to a 1950 survey of their own. Then going into
the nether regions, take a group with destmctive tech such as the
psychiatrist. He not only has trouble in his own field but can smash a
whole society and has done it to several societies already (Germany,
Czarist Russia, Poland, etc). ______________________ A country whose
population does not know what constitution it does have is an
"organization" of ignorant individuals. It will have riot and civil
commotion. In the US currently only 4% recognized the First Amendment to
the Constitution which guarantees freedom of speech, the press and
religion. Ignorance of the law, compounded by a wilful neglect of the
Constitution by government officials is the basic reason for the riot,
civil commotion and disintegration of the US. So the same law holds as per
the first paragraph above. ______________________ We in Scientology have
very basic and strong organizational policy and structure. Where a
franchise or org is in any way upset or is not giving good service the
individuals do not know or are aware of and are not using policy. The
answer is that it is dangerous and destructive for staffs and
Scientologists not to know org pattern and policy. The result will be
upsets and decline. On the other hand sound knowledge and use of
Scientology policy and structure results in a strong org, excellent service
and longevity.
L. RON HUBBARD Founder
LRH:ldm.rs.ei.rd Copyright c 1969 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS
RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 9 NOVEMBER 1968 (Corrects earlier P/L of same
date and title. In 4th para, 1st line, the word "flow" is corrected to
"flaw".) Remimeo
IMPORTANT STANDARD ADMIN This is the first Policy Letter on STANDARD
ADMINISTRATION. STANDARD TECH came in with a crash just by teaching the
most basic of basics as the most important actions. Cases which hadn't
moved for years when handled by Case Supervisors and auditors who skipped
all the airy fairy nonsense and just did the usual ordinary basic actions
suddenly flew. There is also Standard Training Procedure. This again is the
ordinary down-to - earth basic actions. A class that hadn't moved at all
suddenly took off and all graduated when the USUAL was done. Thus we find
the flaw in all our actions to be the failure to separate out the truly
basic important actions and instead engaging upon trivial complexities. It
is a characteristic of a thetan that the least complex actions are the most
powerful. When his confront lessens he tries to do things by vias that add
complexities and he then fails and becomes weak. So, just as we blasted our
way to 100% results with STANDARD TECH so we can thunder straight through
to victory using STANDARD ADMIN. DEFINITIONS STANDARD means "A definite
level or degree of quality that is proper and adequate for a specific
purpose". (Webster's Third New International Dictionary Unabridged.
Standard 3 b page 2223.) ADMINISTRATION means "The principles, practices
and rationalized techniques employed in achieving the objectives or aims of
an organization." (Webster's Third New International Dictionary Unabridged,
5 (a). Administration, page 28.) We commonly call this "Admin" as a
shortening of it and to designate the work of doing it. ORGANIZATION means
"A group of people that has more or less constant membership, a body of
officers, a purpose and usually a set of regulations." (Webster's Third New
International Dictionary Unabridged, 2 b page 1590.) BASICS means "basic-s
something that is basic: FUNDAMENTAL". BASE means "the bottom of something
considered its support". FUNDAMENTAL means "serving as an original or
generating force: being the one from which others are derived". DERIVED
means "formed or developed out of something else", which is to say
something formed or made from a basic. Thus if we have the BASIC or base or
starting point, and know it well, then from it we can develop more complex
actions. We had to have the fundamental or basic laws of organization in
order to develop the full structure of organization. Administration becomes
STANDARD when we have the most important points or laws or actions and when
we always use these and use them in just the same way. For example, some
people look at a factory as a big complex structure, they consider it very
complicated or hard to understand or are in awe of it. Or get confused
trying to study it. Well, the moment they know that the basic action of the
place is to make silk cloth, they have a fundamental on which to understand
what is going on. When we then know that raw fiber goes in one side, gets
processed and comes out the other as satin, we can begin to sketch in what
its flow lines must be. At last we have that, we can assume somebody runs
it and that people work there and taken all in one piece it's an
organization. To RUN the factory we would have to know the most important
duties of every person in the place, the functions of the machines and the
lines of flow. And to run it SUCCESSFULLY we would have to know where its
raw fiber came from and its cost and who would buy it and its price and how
much the various expenses were to keep it going and to make it make more
than it spent and we'd have its economics and accounting. These would be
the BASICS of the place: who did what, what the lines were, where the raw
materials came from and where the finished product went, and keeping the
cost and expense in ratio, how to stimulate more demand for satin and how
to get raw materials in quantity at a reasonable price. While some might be
upset at making a similarity between a factory and an organization in
general, all organizations have the same basic problems and similar
solutions. An Army delivers blows to the enemy and gets recruits, material
and pay from the government. It has a supposed product too, since few
armies exist after losing too of^en in a war. THE BEST ORGANIZATION The
best organization is one which has a thetan over it, methods of working out
its problems, basic actions and a good desirable product. It adapts itself
to its environment or surroundings or conditions of operation so as to
expand to greater or lesser degree. Such as organizations must have a clear-
cut purpose and fill a definite need in order to survive. Its services must
be more valuable than what it costs to produce or furnish thpse services.
It must, to remain healthy, obtain more potential than it spends. For
"potential" can be ready money or power or even strength. Where an
organization violates these very fundamental things it sickens and will
eventually perish. For example, a government of a country can violate one
or more of the above simple ideas and eventually cease to exist. Some
governments are really dead for a very long time before the fact is
discovered. Such is the persistence and power of a once strong organization
that it can continue for a very long while, feeding inward on itself. It
gradually contracts and eventually becomes a memory only. Thus when you see
an organization begin to contract, if it is to be salvaged, it must be
stripped back to basics quickly, its form simplified, its purpose clarified
and the important services it can render greatly intensified and the cost
of rendering them greatly reduced. This formula, intelligently applied even
to a dead government, could revive it. Lest we go too quickly, in the
single sentence above and the earlier basics mentioned we have the whole
"secret" of either reviving an old or forming a new organization. If you
know the purpose and how to make a desirable service known and know how to
handle its fundamentals expertly you can found, increase, or revive any
organization. Putting together or handling an organization requires very
certain, positive knowledge of (a) The basics of organizations (b) The
purpose of the organization (c) The basic actions necessary in the
organization (d) The potentials of the area in which the organization
exists (e) The needs and desires of the area or people the organization
serves (f) The economics on which the organization will operate. Handling
or serving in an organization successfully, one has to KNOW the actions and
activities of the organization and its area so well that one does not have
to think about it. One just does it or one indicates or works with what or
who does it. You don't think "clutch, gear shift, accelerator, steering
wheel," when you drive a car. You should, to drive it successfully, know
where these things are and what they do so well that you simply drive a
car. But learning to drive a car, you learn each of these things and its
function and then leam them so well that it seems like instinct to use
them. It isn't instinct. It's knowing them so well you don't fumble. An
organization is like that. Working in it or being one of those who run a
part of it or the whole of it, one has to know the parts and actions and
(a) to (0 above so well one knows them so fast that one just does them. So,
in STANDARD ADMIN we are acquiring (a) A knowledge of basics (b) The basics
that exist in and around a specific organization (c) The ability to handle
those basics with such speed and certainty that it seems instinct. And when
we have this, the organization will go, go, go with an ease and lack of
effort that is astonishing.
L. RON HUBBARD Founder
LRH:ei.rd Copyright c 1968 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
VITAL DATA ON STUDY One of the biggest barriers to learning a new
subject is its nomenclature, meaning the set of terms used to describe the
things it deals with. A subject must have accurate labels which have exact
meanings before it can be understood and communicated. If I were to
describe parts of the body as "thingamabobs" and "whatsernames", we would
all be in a confusion, so the accurate naming of something is a very
important part of any field. A student comes along and starts to study
something and has a terrible time of it. Why? Because he or she not only
has a lot of new principles and methods to learn, but a whole new language
as well. Unless the student understands this, unless he or she realizes
that one has to "know the words before one can sing the tune", he or she is
not going to get very far in any field of study or endeavour. Now I am
going to give you an important datum: The only reason a person gives up a
study or becomes confused or unable to learn is because he or she has gone
past a word that was not understood. The confusion or inability to grasp or
learn comes AFTER a word that the person did not have defined and
understood. Have you ever had the experience of coming to the end of a page
and realizing you didn't know what you had read? Well, somewhere earlier on
that page you went past a word that you had no definition for. Here's an
example. "It was found that when the crepuscule arrived the children were
quieter and when it was not present, they were much livelier." You see what
happens. You think you don't understand the whole idea, but the inability
to understand came entirely from the one word you could not define,
crepuscule which means twilight or darkness. This datum about not going
past an undefined word is the most important fact in the whole subject of
study. Every subject you have taken up and abandoned had its words which
you failed to get defined. Therefore, in studying Scientology be very, very
certain you never go past a word you do not fully understand. If the
material becomes confusing or you can't seem to grasp it, 'there will be a
word just earlier that you have not understood. Don't go any further, but
go back to BEFORE you got into trouble, find the misunderstood word and get
it defined. That is why we have a dictionary. It will not only be the new
and unusual words that you will have to look up. Some commonly used words
can often be misdefined and so cause confusion. So don't depend on our
dictionary alone. Use a general English language dictionary as well for any
non-Scientology word you do not understand when you are reading or
studying. HOW TO USE A DICTIONARY Some words that a student misunderstands
and looks up can yet remain troublesome. It's this way: The student runs
across a word he or she doesn't understand. He or she looks it up, finds a
substitute word and uses that. Of course the first word is still
misunderstood and remains a bother. Example: (Line in text) "The size was
Gargantuan." The student looks up Gargantuan, finds "Like Gargantua, huge."
The student uses "huge" as a synonym and reads the text line, "The size was
'huge'." A short while later he or she is found still incapable of
understanding the paragraph below "Gargantua" in the text. The principle is
that one goes dull after passing over a word one does not understand and
brightens up the moment he spots the word that wasn't grasped. In actual
fact, the brightening up occurs whether one defines the word or not. But to
put another word in the place of the existing words is to mess it all up.
The correct procedure is to look over, get defined well and understand the
word that was used. In this case the word was "Gargantuan". Very well,
what's that? It means "Like Gargantua" according to the dictionary. Who or
what was Gargantua? The dictionary says it was the name of a gigantic King
in a book written by the author Rabelais. Cheers, the student thinks, the
sentence meant, "The size Was a gigantic King." Oops! That's the same
mistake again, like "huge". But we're nearer. So what to do? Use Gargantuan
in a few sentences you make up and bingo! You suddenly understand the word
that was used. Now you read it right. "The size was Gargantuan." And what
does that mean? It means, "The size was Gargantuan." And nothing else.
SUMMARY Scientology words and their definitions are the gateway to a new
look and understanding of life. Understanding them will help you live
better, and will assist you along the road of truth that is Scientology.
L. RON HUBBARD
Copyright c 1965 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
Note: Mbre complete information on Scientology technology in the field
of study and education is contained in L. Ron Hubbard's eight tape recorded
Study Lectures. Send for your free Catalog which lists these in detail,
available from the publishers.
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 9 SEPTEMBER 1969 Remimeo Ore Exec Course
Checksheet Page 1, Item 1B
HOW TO STUDY THIS COURSE
The entire checksheet of this course should be gone through three
times. That is a completion of the Course. All Scientology Rules of Study
and Student Conduct, as given in the Course Supervisor's pack (HDG), apply.
A checksheet may be added to, but only for a new student or one who has
discontinued as incomplete and is resuming the course after a long absence.
All LRH Pol Ltrs from 1966 forward are added to the checksheet of 21 Sept
1967 amended 25 Nov 1967 or as indicated in a newly issued checksheet after
the date of this Pol Ltr. Beware of going past misunderstood words. Use a
dictionary liberally. If the student bogs or is slow he should be sent to a
Scientology Review for Administration or Study or Policy. The earlier
course began with a Review but as it interrupted the fast flow system and
many did not need it it was cancelled by LRH ED 691 Int. Beware of other
students "explaining things" in the Policy Letters or of Course Supervisors
who say "That isn't used now". The data is the data and it is in the Policy
Letters. In particular, beware of memorizing things without understanding
them. What is true for you is true. The data here is for you and to help
make a better world. You will often find that what didn't look right the
first time, will appear in a wholly different light to you on your second
time through.
L. RON HUBBARD Founder
LRH:rs.ei.rd Copyright c 1969 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
[Cancelled by HCO P/L 29 July 1972 Issue II, Fast Flow in Training, in
the 1972 Year Book.]
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 27 JULY 1969 Remimeo Dian Coutse All Courses
WHAT IS A CHECKSHEET
The "Checksheet" is a Scientology development in the field of study. A
CHECKSHEET is a form which sets out the exact sequence of items to be
studied or done by a student, in order, item by item, on a course. It lists
ALL the materials of the course in order to be studied with a place for the
student (or the person checking the student out in the case of a Starrate
Checkout) to put his initial and the date as each item on the Checksheet is
studied, performed or checked out. The Checksheet is the programme that the
student follows to complete that course. Every student is given a complete
Checksheet at the start of a course. It is not added to after he has
started working on it. It is in its final form when it is handed to him. It
may be added to for those who enroll later but is not added to during the
course. The data of the course are studied and its drills performed in the
order on the checksheet. The student does not "jump around" or study the
material in some other order. The materials are set out in the Checksheet
in the best order for study by the student so that he covers all the
material in logical sequence. Further, following the exact order of the
Checksheet has a disciplinary function which assists the student to study.
The student's initial beside an item is an attestation that he knows in
detail AND can apply the material contained in that bulletin, Policy Letter
or tape, or that he has done and can do that drill. The initial of the
supervisor or another student against a Starrated item is an attestation by
him that he has given the student a Starrate checkout on the item in
accordance with HCO Policy Letter of 14 May 1969 Issue II "How to do a
Starrate Checkout" and that the student has passed. The Course Supervisor
MUST inspect students' checksheets daily to ensure that all students are
following the Checksheet in its correct set out order, and that the student
is making good progress through it. "Through a Checksheet" means through
the entire checksheet-theory, practical, all drills-and done in sequence.
When a course consists of three times through the Checksheet, the student
goes through three entire Checksheets once, theory, practical and all
drills in sequence, completing that, and then goes through the entire next
checksheet a second time, then goes through a third checksheet fully a
third time. There is no difference in what is studied and how it is studied
the second and third times through-or any subsequent times through the
Checksheet! It is done fully each time-theory, practical and all drills
(including all study drills). RETRAINING "Retraining" or "back to Course
for retraining" or (per step [2] in handling a student who fails to get a
good result - HCOB 16 July 69, URGENT - IMPORTANT) "Send student back to
training" means that the student is sent to Cramming to get straight
exactly what is missed and then back to Course and does THE ENTIRE COURSE
AGAIN, three times through the checksheet if that is the course (such as
the Dianetics Course). No short cuts or skimping is allowed on retraining,
as a student who fails to apply one aspect of the course had a
misunderstood which would have prevented him from fully grasping and
understanding the other material on previous times through the Checksheet.
Also-NUMBER OF TIMES OVER THE MATERIAL EQUALS CERTAINTY AND RESULTS (a
major study datum which has been proven beyond any question in Dianetics
and Scientology). It is illegal to run any Course on any subject without a
checksheet in Dianetics and Scientology.
Ens. Tony Dunleavy Planning & Training Aide LRH:TD.ldm.ei.rd for
Copyright c 1969 L. RON HUBBARD by L. Ron Hubbard Founder ALL RIGHTS
RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 26 AUGUST 1965 Sthil Foundation Students
SCIENTOLOGY TRAINING TWIN CHECKOUTS (Excerpts from HCO Policy Letters of 4
October 1964 and 24 September 1964 rewritten) In Scientology training we
use a system called TWIN CHECKOUTS. Each student is assigned a "twin" to
work with. The student studies his assigned material and is sometimes
coached over the rough spots by his twin. When the student knows the
material, he is then given a checkout by his twin. If he flunks, he returns
to study and when ready gets a new checkout. When he passes, the twin signs
the assignment sheet certifying that he has grasped it. The assignment
sheet is turned in to the Course Supervisor at the end of the period. BAD
STUDY HABITS Earlier forms of education suffer because of a habit. The
habit is all one's years of formal schooling where this mistake is the
whole way of life. If the student knows the words, the teacher assumes he
knows the tune. It will never do a student any good at all to know some
facts. The student is expected only to use facts. It is so easy to confront
thought and so hard to confront action that the teacher often complacently
lets the student mouth words and ideas that mean nothing to the student.
ALL THEORY CHECKOUTS MUST CONSULT THE STUDENT'S UNDERST ANDING. If they
don't, they're useless and will upset the student eventually. Course
difficulties stem entirely from the students' non-comprehension of words
and data. While this can be cured by auditing, why audit it all the time
when you can prevent it in the first place by adequate theory checkout?
There are two phenomena here. FIRST PHENOMENON When a student misses
understanding a word, the section right after that word is a blank in his
memory. You can always trace back to the word just before the blank, get it
understood and find miraculously that the former blank area is not now
blank in the text. The above is pure magic. SECOND PHENOMENON The second
phenomenon occurs after the student has gone by many misunder - stood
words. He begins to dislike the subject being studied, more and more. This
is followed by various mental and physical conditions and by various
complaints, fault-finding and look-what-you-did-to-me. This justifies a
departure, a blow, from the subject being studied. But the system of
education, frowning on blows as it does, causes the student to really
withdraw self from the study subject (whatever he was studying) and set up
in its place a circuit which can receive and give back sentences and
phrases. We now have "the quick student who somehow never applies what he
learns". The specific phenomena then is that a student can study some words
and give them back and yet be no participant to the action. The student
gets A+ on exams but can't apply the data. Demonstration is the key here.
The moment you ask this type of student to demonstrate a rule or theory
with his hands or the paper clips on your desk this glibness will shatter.
The reason for this is that in memorizing words or ideas, the student can
still hold the position that it has nothing to do with him or her. It is a
total circuit action. Therefore, very glib. The moment you say
"Demonstrate" that word or idea or principle, the student has to have
something to do with it. And shatters. The thoroughly dull student is just
stuck in the non-comprehend blankness following some misunderstood word.
The "very bright" student who yet can't use the data isn't there at all. He
has long since ceased to confront the subject matter or the subject. The
cure for either of these conditions of "bright non-comprehension" or "dull"
is to find the missing word. But these conditions can be prevented by not
letting the student go beyond the missed word without grasping its meaning.
And that is the duty of the twin. COACHING IN THEORY Coaching Theory means
getting a student to define all the words, give all the rules, demonstrate
things in the text with his hands or bits of things, and also may include
doing Definitions of Scientology terms. The usual Course Supervisor action
would be to have any student who is having any trouble or is slow or glib
team up with a twin of comparable difficulties and have them turn about
with each other with Theory Coaching. Then when they have a text assignment
coached, they gi/e their twin a checkout. The checkout is a spot checkout,
a few definitions or rules and some demonstration of them. DEMONSTRATION
Giving a text assignment check by seeing if it can be quoted or paraphrased
proves exactly nothing. This will not guarantee that the student knows the
data or can use or apply it nor even guarantees that the student is there.
Neither the "bright" student nor the "dull" student (both suffering from
the same malady) will benefit from such an examination. So examining by
seeing if somebody "knows" the text and can quote or paraphrase it is
completely false and must not be done. Correct examination is done only by
making the person being tested answer (a) The meanings of the words (re-
defining the words used in his own words and demonstrating their use in his
own made up sentences), and (b) Demonstrating how the data is used. The
twin can ask what the words mean. And the twin can ask for examples of
action or application. "What is the first paragraph?" is about as dull as
one can get. "What are the rules given about _____?" is a question I would
never bother to ask. Neither of these tells the twin whether he has the
bright non-applier or the dull student before him. Such questions just beg
for natter and course blows. I would go over the first paragraph of any
material I was examining a student on and pick out some uncommon words. I'd
ask the student to define each and demonstrate its use in a made up
sentence and flunk the first "Well...,er....let me see..." and that would
be the end of that checkout. I wouldn't pick out only Scientologese. I'd
pick out words that weren't too ordinary such as "benefit" "permissive"
"calculated" as well as "engram". Students I was personally examining would
begin to get a hunted look and carry dictionaries-BUT THEY WOULDN'T BEGIN
TO NATTER OR GET SICK OR BLOW. AND THEY'D USE WHAT THEY LEARNED. Above all,
I myself would be sure I knew what the words meant before I started to
examine. Dealing with new technology and the necessity to have things
named, we especially need to be alert. Before you curse our terms, remember
that a lack of terms to describe phenomena can be twice as incomprehensible
as having involved terms that at least can, be understood eventually. We do
awfully well, really, better than any other science or subject. We lack a
dictionary but we can remedy that. But to continue with how one should
examine, when the student had the words, I'd demand the music. What tune do
these words play? I'd say "All right, what use is this text assignment to
you?" Questions like, "Now this rule here about not letting pcs eat candy
while being audited, how come there'd be such a rule?" And if the student
couldn't imagine why, I'd go back to the words just ahead of that rule and
find the one he hadn't grasped. I'd ask "What are the 3 parts of the ARC
triangle?" And when the student gave them, I'd still have the task of
satisfying myself that the student understood why those were the 3 parts.
I'd ask "How come?" after he'd given them to me. Or "What are you going to
do with these?" But if the student wasn't up to the point of study where
knowing why he used the ARC triangle was part of his materials, I wouldn't
ask. For all the data about not examining above level applies very severely
to Theory Checkout as well as to Practical and general Instruction. I might
also have a stack of paper clips and rubber bands and use them to have
students show me they knew the words and ideas. Theory often says "Well,
they take care of all that in Practical." Oh no they don't. When you have a
Theory Section that believes that. Practical can't function at all.
Practipal goes through the simple motions. Theory covers why one goes
through the motions. I don't think I have to beat this to death for you.
You've got it. DICTIONARIES Dictionaries should be available to students in
Theory and should be used in Twin Checkouts as well, preferably the same
publication. Dictionaries don't always agree with each other. No Twin
should try to define English language words out of his own head when
correcting a student as it leads to too many arguments. On English words,
open a dictionary. A Scientology dictionary will be available in a few
months from the date of this bulletin as one is being rushed into
publication. L. RON HUBBARD LRH:ml.rd Copyright c 1965 by L. Ron Hubbard
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 4 OCTOBER 1964 Reissued on 21 May 1967 Remimeo
All Staff All Students Tech Hats Qual Hats THEORY CHECK-OUT DATA (Modifies
HCO Pol Ltr of Sept 24, '64)
In checking out technical materials on students or staff, it has been
found that the new system as per HCO Pol Ltr of Sept 24, '64 is too lengthy
if the whole bulletin is covered. Therefore the system given in Sept 24,
'64 Pol Ltr is to be used as follows: 1. Do not use the old method of
covering each bit combined with the new method. 2. Use only the new method.
3. Spot check the words and materials, do not try to cover it all. This is
done the same way a final examination is given in schools: only a part of
the material is covered by examination, assuming that if the student has
this right the student knows all of it. 4. Flunk on comm lag in attempts to
answer. If the student "er....ah....well...," flunk it as it certainly
isn't known well enough to use. (Doesn't include stammerers.) 5. Never keep
on examining a bulletin after a student has missed. 6. Consider all
materials star rated or not rated. Skip 75%'s. In other words, the check-
out must have been 100% right answers for a pass. 75% is not a pass. When
you consider a bulletin or tape too unimportant for a 100% pass, just
require evidence that it has been read and don't examine it at all. In
other words, on those you check out, require 100% and on less important
material don't examine, merely require evidence of having read. THE
"BRIGHT" ONES You will find that often you have very glib students you
won't be able to find any fault in who yet won't be able to apply or use
the data they are passing. This student is discussed as the "bright
student" in the Sept 24, '64 Pol Ltr. Demonstration is the key here. The
moment you ask this type of student to demonstrate a rule or theory with
his hands or the paper-clips on your desk this glibness will shatter. The
reason for this is that in memorizing words or ideas, the student can still
hold the position that it has nothing to do with him or her. It is a total
circuit action. Therefore, very glib. The moment you say "Demonstrate" that
word or idea or principle, the student has to have something to do with it.
And shatters. One student passed "Itsa" in theory with flying colours every
time even on cross-check type questions, yet had never been known to
listen. When the theory instructor said, "Demonstrate what a student would
have to do to pass Itsa," the whole subject blew up. "There's too many ways
to do Itsa auditing!" the student said. Yet on the bulletin it merely said
"Listen". That given as a glib answer was all right. But "demonstration"
brought to light that this student hadn't a clue about listening to a pc.
If he had to demonstrate it, the non-participation of the student in the
material he was studying came to light. Don't get the idea that
Demonstration is a Practical Section action. Practical gives the drills.
These demonstrations in Theory aren't drills. Clay Table isn't used to any
extent by a Theory Examiner. Hands, a diagram, paper-clips, these are
usually quite enough! COACHING IN THEORY There is Theory Coaching as well
as Practical Coaching. Coaching Theory means getting a student to define
all the words, give all the rules, demonstrate things in the bulletin with
his hands or bits of things, and also may include doing Clay Table
Definitions of Scientology terms. That's all Theory Coaching. It compares
to coaching on drills in Practical. But it is done on bulletins, tapes and
policy letters which are to be examined in the future. Coaching is not
examining. The examiner who coaches instead of examining will stall the
progress of the whole class. The usual Supervisor action would be to have
any student who is having any trouble or is slow or glib team up with
another student of comparable difficulties and have them turn about with
each other with Theory Coaching, similar to Practical Coaching in drills.
Then when they have a bulletin, tape or policy letter coached, they have a
check-out. The check-out is a spot check-out as above, a few definitions or
rules and some demonstration of them. DICTIONARIES Dictionaries should be
available to students in Theory and should be used in Theory Examination as
well, preferably the same publication. Dictionaries don't always agree with
each other. No Supervisor should try to define English language words out
of his own head when correcting a student as it leads to too many
arguments. On English words, open a dictionary. A Scientology dictionary is
available. _________________________ Remember that with Courses becoming
briefer in duration, the number of bulletins and tapes which the student
must know on a Star-Rated basis is also less. General written examination
for classification, however, remains on an 85% pass basis.
_________________________ Be sure that students who get low marks
constantly are also handled in Review, preferably by definitions of words
they haven't understood in some former subject. Scientology is never the
cause of consistent dullness or glibness. Processing of this nature can be
on an Itsa basis. It does not have to be Clay Table. Just finding the prior
subject by discussion and discussing its words usually blows the condition.
I've seen it change the whole attitude of a person in just 5 or 10 minutes
of auditing on a "locate the subject and word" basis. Therefore,
definitions exist at Levels 0 and I, but not with Clay Table or assessment,
only by Itsa. You'd be surprised how well it works and how fast. "Subjects
you didn't like", "words you haven't grasped" are the discussion questions.
_________________________ The subject of "wrong definitions cause stupidity
or circuits, followed by overts and motivators", is not easy to get across
because it is so general amongst Mankind. There is a possibility that past
lives themselves are wiped out by changing language, whether it is the same
language that changes through the years or shifting nationality. But
however that may be, don't be discouraged at the difficulties you may have
in getting this principle understood and used in Scientology departments-
the person you are trying to convince has definitions out somewhere also!
L. RON HUBBARD Founder
LRH:jw.jp.rd Copyright c 1964, 1967 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS
RESERVED
NOT HCO POLICY LETTER CORRECT COLOUR FLASH RED ON WHITE HUBBARD
COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO BULLETIN OF 11 OCTOBER 1967 Re mime o CLAY TABLE TRAINING PURPOSE:
1. To make the materials being studied real to the student by making him
DEMONSTRATE them in clay. 2. To give a proper balance of mass and
significance. 3. To teach the student to apply. The student is given a word
or auditing action or situation to demonstrate. He then does this in clay,
labeling each part. The clay SHOWS the thing. It is not just a blob of clay
with a label on it. Use small strips of paper for labels. The whole
demonstration then has a label of what it is. On the checkout, the student
removes the overall label. The student must be silent. The examiner must
not ask any questions. The examiner just looks and figures out what it is.
He then tells the student who then shows the examiner the label. If the
examiner did not see what it was, it is a Hunk. Clay table must not be
reduced to significance by the student explaining or answering questions.
Nor is it reduced to significance by long-winded labels of individual
parts. The clay shows it, not the label. The clay demonstrates it. The
student must learn the difference between mass and significance. For
example, the student has to demonstrate a pencil. He makes a thin roll of
clay which is surrounded by another layer of clay-the thin roll sticking
slightly out of one end. On the other end goes a small cylinder of clay.
The roll is labeled "lead". The outer layer is labeled "wood". The small
cylinder is labeled "rubber". Then a label is made for the whole thing:
"pencil". On checkout, the student removes "pencil" before the examiner can
see it. If the examiner can look at it and say, "It's a pencil," the
student passes. It might also be noted that checkouts on bulletins must
also ask for demonstrations. Use paper-clips, rubber bands, etc. The
examiner should ask questions that require an ability to apply. Give the
student a situation and have him tell you how he would handle it. Questions
about what is rule "a" do not detect the glib student. Long-winded
explanations on clay table put it back into significance, prevent the
student from learning to apply, and prevent the student from getting the
proper balance of mass, and do not blow confusion. All checkouts must keep
in mind that the purpose is application, not just getting a checksheet
complete. If clay table training is not brightening that student up, then
the above is NOT being done. Someone is in such a rush that real learning
is being put aside for the sake of speed. This student has to audit with
his materials. Don't let him fall flat by lousy checkouts and lousy
demonstrations. A well done clay demo, which actually does demonstrate,
will produce a marvellous change in that student. And he will retain the
data. L. RON HUBBARD Founder
LRH:jp.rd Copyright c 1967 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 18 SEPTEMBER 1967 Remimeo Academies SHSBC STUDY
COMPLEXITY AND CONFRONTING In some researches I have been doing recently on
the field of study, I have found what appears to be the basic law on
complexity. It is: THE DEGREE OF COMPLEXITY IS PROPORTIONAL TO THE DEGREE
OF NON CONFRONT. Reversing this: THE DEGREE OF SIMPLICITY IS PROPORTIONAL
TO THE DEGREE OF CONFRONT and THE BASIS OF ABERRATION IS A NON-CONFRONT. To
the degree that a being cannot confront he enters substitutes which,
accumulating, bring about a complexity. I found this while examining the
subject of NAVIGATION in order to teach it and clarify it. I found that Man
had based the subject on an incorrect primary assumption. All subjects have
as their basis a point of first assumption. In Man's technology this is
usually weak and non-factual which makes his technology very frail and
limited. To reform a subject one has to find this primary assumption and
improve it. This reforming of technical subjects is of great interest to us
because our subject Scientology is advanced even beyond the space travel
technologies of very high civilizations. Yet it is flanked on all sides by
Man's corny antique technology in the field of physics, chemistry,
"mathematics" and so on. This tends to hold us back somewhat. We strained
his tech forward to get the E-Meter, the one thing we had to have. In
Navigation, man bases the whole subject on the assumption that one can't
confront where he came from or is going or where he is. It assumes he is
lost. This is a basis assumption of non-confront. He can't directly see
where he has been or where he is going at sea-it is so large-so he takes
off from a point of no-confront in all his reasoning in the subject.
Therefore he goes into a series of symbols and begins to substitute symbols
for symbols. This winds him up in a mass of complexity. One spends 90% of
his time in studying this subject trying to find out what symbols the
symbols are meant to represent. He says in his texts "G.H.A." On search we
find this means "Greenwich Hour Angle". On further search we find this
means what angle some heavenly body forms when related to Greenwich as
Zero. On further search we find the idiocy that the navigator's clock tells
angles in HOURS when all he needs is a clock face giving 360 degrees. This
is of course complete nonsense. Why hours, and two sets of 12 at that
(midnight to Noon and Noon to midnight) when what he is trying to find out
is how many degrees of time have passed. He refers his time to the Sun
which, because of the rotations of Earth every 24 hours, appears at an
increasing number of degrees from Greenwich England as the day advances.
Because he starts from a no-confront of ship or plane position he then
carries no-confront through the whole subject. If a man isn't lost as he
begins to "navigate" he very often is when he finishes! Actually no ship or
plane is ever lost as to position. One knows he is on Earth and in what
ocean and on what side of what ocean and the subject really should be one
which merely lets one CORRECT his position a bit. Man in this subject of
navigation even scorns direct observation (confront) and calls it "jackass
navigation!" In actual fact real navigation is the science of recognition
of positions and objects and estimation of relative distances and angles
between them. The subject is made complex because it has become, in Man's
hands, the substitution of symbols for symbols all based on the assumption
that he can't confront his departure, his current spot or his point of
arrival. Out of this, with further study in other fields, I found that any
complexity stemmed from an initial point of non-confront. This is why
looking at or recognizing the source of an aberration in processing "blows"
it, makes it vanish. Mental mass accumulates in a vast complexity solely
because one would not confront something. To take apart a problem requires
only to establish what one could not or would not confront. The basic thing
man can't or won't confront is evil. These people who always rationalize
evil behavior-"He wasn't feeling well which is why he murdered the
policeman", etc., can be counted on to voice some theetie-weetie (goodie-
goodie) justification for somebody's thoroughly evil conduct. Mr. X wrecks
a house and you remark on it and Miss Theetie Weetie will feel compelled to
say, "Oh, Mr. X had a poor childhood and he didn't mean any wrong...." She
can't confront the simple but evil fact that Mr. X is a complete dog. One
feels his hair stand on end when Miss Theetie Weetie does this because one
is observing a complete non-confront on the part of Miss Theetie Weetie.
She is too unreal to do other than make one feel he has had an ARC Break.
One will also find that Miss Theetie Weetie leads a horribly complex life-
adjust - ing her thinking to agree with "air spirits" and leaving her
family because there might be mice in the basement. When no-confront
enters, a chain may be set up which leads to total complexity and total
unreality. This, in a very complex form we call an "aberrated condition".
People like that can't solve even rudimentary problems and act in an
aimless and confused way. To resolve their troubles requires more than
education or discipline. It requires processing. Some people are so
"complex" that their full aberration does fully not resolve until they
attain a high level of OT. A large number of people de-aberrate just by the
education contained in Scientology as they find in our subject the natural
laws of life and seeing (confronting) them, "blow" huge holes in their
complexities and aberrations. Therefore the above laws are very important
ones as they explain what aberration really is and why processing really
works. Aberration is a chain of vias based on a primary non-confront.
Processing is a series of methods arranged on an increasingly deep scale of
bringing the preclear to confront the no-confront sources of his
aberrations and leading him to a simple, powerful, effective being.
L. RON HUBBARD Founder LRH:jp.rd Copyright c 1967 by L. Ron Hubbard
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 25 APRIL 1963 Central Orgs
DUTIES OF A STAFF MEMBER (Re-issued and slightly amended from HASI Pol
Ltr of August 7, 1958)
ATTACH THIS BULLETIN TO THE INSIDE FRONT COVER OF YOUR STAFF MEMBER
HAT FOLDER.
1. Each staff member is responsible for seeing that organization
policy is carried out. If you see another staff member at variance with
organization policy, it is your duty to advise them direct-if that fails,
advise the Association Secretary. 2. Abide by the working hours of the
organization-arrive on time, keep a set lunch hour. If you need to change
your lunch hour, check with your department head for okay. A post not
covered throws randomity into the organization. 3. Keep your own desk,
equipment and quarters neat and orderly. See that papers are not scattered
on your own desk and in your office. 4. If you see doors open with nobody
on post, close or lock the door. 5. All staff members are responsible for
seeing that their doors are locked in the evenings, lights turned off,
recorders off, coolers off, cigarettes not left lighted. Leave your office
clean and neat. 6. See that your supplies are adequate-order before you
give out. 7. Make your daily pickups to and from the Comm Center, or see
that this has been done by HASI or HCO Communicator. 8. If you change your
residence or telephone number, report this information to personnel, your
department head, Reception, and the person in charge of Evacuation Plan. 9.
Know well the Organization Board. Know the various posts and who covers
them. 10. Abide by the purchase order system of the organization. 11. Be
courteous and helpful to students and preclears on our premises, and anyone
else who calls by. Refer people to the correct terminal. Take
responsibility to see that they get to the right terminal, even if you have
to walk them to the terminal's desk. 12. Abide by the Policy of Outside
Auditing, i.e., HCO Pol Ltr of October 16, 1962, "No staff to Audit private
pcs". 13. Keep your attire as presentable as possible. A good presentation
to the public creates a good impression upon them. 14. If you see something
around the premises which needs repairing, report it to the Director of
Administration. 15. Make your posts or post real to other staff members and
the field. 16. Answer people's questions. Understand the question, answer
it, make friends. 17. Attend Staff Meetings. 18. Keep your bulletins and
policy letters in proper hat folders: Technical bulletins in a gold or
orange folder marked "Technical Bulletins", your own hat bulletins in your
hat folder or folders (blue) and all other bulletins not technical and not
your hat, in your "Staff Member" hat folder (yellow). 19. Review your hat
folders periodically. Refresh your memory regarding your duties. If they
are not current, bring them up to date. 20. If you receive a dispatch which
does not concern your post, re-route it. Do not attempt to handle any and
every dispatch coming to you which is not your hat. (1) You are introducing
randomity on your own post, and (2) you are handling something which
another person should know and handle. 21. If you see another person off
post, it is your duty to advise them direct. If this fails, advise their
department head. Try to be helpful to them in this regard, not chop them.
Help them get back on post. 22. If the Organization Board does not reflect
the reality of your posts, report this to HCO. 23. If you occupy more than
one post, and you find that you do not have enough time to devote proper
attention to another of your hats so that the job is lagging or not getting
done, it is your duty to iron this out with your department head in order
to remedy the situation. If it is found that one of your posts is being
neglected due to lack of time available to cover it, the department head
may take this up with Dir Admin or Assoc Sec in order to get that
particular hat worn properly. If a person has too many hats, or if the
workload has increased to the point that one of your hats is not being worn
due to lack of time to devote to it, much randomity can occur within the
organization itself and in the field. If you occupy posts in several
departments, always consult the department head under which your post
exists. 24. You are responsible for following the DISPATCH SYSTEM and the
COLOUR FLASH SYSTEM of the organization (see HCO Policy Letter of April 8,
1958). 25. If you have questions concerning your duties on any post, check
with your departmental head. 26. When you change posts, be sure to report
to Personnel, Dir Admin and HCO Sec, so that your file can be changed
accordingly. 27. To the best of your ability, help your fellow staff
members. Staff members are a team, not opponents. If you see a person not
doing his job, or doing it poorly, give him a hand-give him some
suggestions for him to look over-this works better than merely chopping him
up. Maybe he really doesn't know any better. It is to your advantage to
assist your fellow staff members. When you assist them to do a better job,
it results in a larger pay check for you. When you chop them in person or
to their backs, you are cutting your own and the organization's throat. If
you see how they could improve their job, tell them, not somebody over the
back alley. Confront them. Help them. 28. Each staff member is responsible
for the organization itself. For its physical appearance-its personnel-its
performance. It cannot properly perform unless each staff member makes it
do so.
L. RON HUBBARD
LRH:jw.rd Copyright c 1963 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
[HCO P/L of 7 August 1958 and this 25 April 1963 re-issue are
substantially the same, the main amendments being the change of Org post
titles reflecting Org Board evolution in the period. ] HUBBARD
COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 20 OCTOBER 1961 REVISED 25 JANUARY 1967 REVISED 7
MARCH 1967
Sthil
NON-SCIENTOLOGY STAFF
Whether by fate or fortune, you have found yourself to be a member of
a group that has an interesting technology and a definite set of standards
of conduct. Whether this is fortunate for you or unfortunate, you are yet a
member of this group by the simple fact of working in it. That you do not
have any knowledge of its technology does not make you any less a member of
this group. You are only expected to uphold certain standards as a member
of this group. These standards are rather easy to understand: 1. This group
has accepted you at face value. No one of this group will hold your past
against you. A person entering a Scientology group is looked upon as a
person whose conduct now is important, but whose conduct in the past is
utterly unimportant. 2. This group is composed of people who want to get
more able in life and to live a better life. These people have, unlike
others, enough courage to face their own past and misdeeds and recover from
them. Ordinary people most often run from their past or blame it on others.
When you see a person upset in an auditing session, it is because he had
enough nerve to try to face his past and get the better of it. Such people
are stronger and saner than people who, like chips of wood, merely drift on
life's river, or who cry and moan in the eddies that life has "done them
in". 3. A person does not have to know Scientology to be a member of a
Scientology group. They only have to believe people can be or deserve to be
helped. 4. This group believes that honest people have rights and that
dishonest people have sacrificed their rights by being dishonest. The
definition of dishonesty is whether or not a person is trying to hurt his
fellow human beings with malicious talk, hidden actions and injustice or
outright crime. 5. This group frowns heavily on trying to prevent people
from being processed by cautioning them against it, lying to them about it
or just being ignorant of it. 6. This group believes that making a
commotion around or talking around an injured person can hurt his chances
of recovery. As this has often been proven to be true and can be
demonstrated, members of this group do not talk to or around or make
commotions around people who have just been hurt. They work quietly and
silently to help the injured person. 7. A member of this group may be a
member of any religion. 8. This group refuses to speak ill of Scientology
or criticize it to outsiders. 9. This group will not talk about Scientology
to members of the press. 10. There are the Code of Honour, the Code of a
Scientologist and the Auditor's Code. All other group standards are wholly
technical. There are no secret standards. As a member of this group, you
are expected to uphold these elementary standards of conduct. You are quite
welcome to know more about Scientology, about life, and about your life.
But nobody is going to force you to study it. Everyone on earth has
problems. They would not be human if they didn't. Primarily Scientology
helps people to come up to handling their problems instead of being handled
by them. Just suppose for a moment Scientology really worked. Just suppose
it could really free men from pain and suffering and help them with their
problems. Just suppose people you like or know were in need of help and
Scientology could give it to them. Scientology can help you if you haven't
done things to hurt its people. But however that may be, by working at
Saint Hill, you are a member of Saint Hill. Its standards are those of
Scientology. This is a good group. Be proud to be here. We are glad to have
you.
L. RON HUBBARD Founder
LRH:jp.rd Copyright c 1961, 1967 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 5 FEBRUARY 1969 R (Revised 15 May 1973) Remimeo
PRESS POLICY CODE OF A SCIENTOLOGIST
The Code of a Scientologist as per "The Creation of Human Ability" is
withdrawn. It is reissued as follows: As a Scientologist, I pledge myself
to the Code of Scientology for the good of all. 1. To keep Scientologists,
the Public and the Press accurately informed concerning Scientology, the
world of Mental Health and Society. 2. To use the best I know of
Scientology to the best of my ability to help my family, friends, groups
and the world. 3. To refuse to accept for processing and to refuse to
accept money from any preclear or group I feel I cannot honestly help. 4.
To decry and do all I can to abolish any and all abuses against life and
Mankind. 5. To expose and help abolish any and all physically damaging
practices in the field of Mental Health. 6. To help clean up and keep clean
the field of Mental Health. 7. To bring about an atmosphere of safety and
security in the field of Mental Health by eradicating its abuses and
brutality. 8. To support true Humanitarian endeavors in the fields of Human
Rights. 9. To embrace the policy of equal justice for all. 10. To work for
freedom of speech in the world. 11. To actively decry the suppression of
knowledge, wisdom, philosophy or data which would help Mankind. 12. To
support the freedom of religion. 13. To help Scientology orgs and groups
ally themselves with public groups. 14. To teach Scientology at a level it
can be understood and used by the recipients. 15. To stress the freedom to
use Scientology as a philosophy in all its applications and variations in
the humanities. 16. To insist upon standard and unvaried Scientology as an
applied activity in ethics, processing and administration in Scientology
organizations. 17. To take my share of responsibility for the impact of
Scientology upon the world. 18. To increase the numbers and strength of
Scientology over the world. 19. To set an example of the effectiveness and
wisdom of Scientology. 20. To make this world a saner, better place. L. RON
HUBBARD Founder
LRH:ldm.nt.rd Copyright c 1969, 1973 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS
RESERVED HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 6 MARCH 1969 Remimeo BPI
SCIENTOLOGY IS A RELIGION
"Scientology is a religion in the oldest sense of the word, a study of
wisdom. Scientology is a study of man as a spirit, in his relationship to
life and the physical universe. It is non-denominational. By that is meant
that Scientology is open to people of all religions and beliefs and in no
way tries to persuade a person from his religion, but assists him to better
understand that he is a spiritual being...."
Mary Sue Hubbard From Supplement to "Communication" September 1964
The following definitions are from Webster's New Twentieth Century
Dictionary (2nd Edition-The World Publishing Company, Cleveland and New
York-1959). A. RELIGION (noun) Derivation: from Latin religio (-onis)
(religion), (piety), (conscientiousness), (scrupulousness), from religare
(to bind back), re-, and ligare, (to bind), (to bind together). (a) Any
specific system of belief, worship, conduct, etc., often involving a code
of ethics and a philosophy; as the Christian (religion), the Buddhist
(religion), etc. (b) loosely, any system of beliefs, practices, ethical
values, etc. resembling, suggestive of, or likened to such a system, as,
humanism is his (religion). B. RELIGIOUS (adjective) Derivation: from Latin
religiosus (religious). Of, concerned with, appropriate to, teaching, or
relating to religion; as, a (religious) place; (religious) subjects. Also
Careful; scrupulous; conscientiously exact; such as religion requires; as,
a (religious) observance of vows or promises. C. PHILOSOPHY (noun)
Derivation: from Latin philosophia; Greek philosophia, from Greek
philosophos, from philos (loving), and Sophos (wise). Originally, love of
wisdom and knowledge. A study of the process governing thought and conduct;
theory or investigation of the principles or laws that regulate the
physical universe and underlie all knowledge and reality; included in the
study are aesthetics, ethics, logic, metaphysics, etc. The general
principles or laws of a field of knowledge, activity, etc; as the
(philosophy) of economics. (a) A particular system of principles for the
conduct of life; (b) A treatise covering such a system. A study of human
morals, character and behaviour. The mental balance believed to result from
this; calmness; composure. ____________________ Scientology is a religion
by the very nature of its philosophy and system of Ethics, Technology, and
Administration, all of which is designed and set up for life to free itself
from entrapment, and restore total freedom to the spirit.
_______________________
"But one of the oldest things that was ever given into the training of
wise men that I know of was simply this-the basic faith in which the
individual has been trained and the basic political allegiance of the
individual must not be tampered with by the Order training him. And it was
the Order itself which laid that down. That's an old, old one. They were
training very wise men and that was the first thing that they made sure not
to do. They did not tamper with these things. If the individual cared to
alter these things himself nobody was even vaguely persuading him. It might
be in the course of his study that he found certain things that men did
laughable, or confusing, or he found certain things that men did remediable-
but nobody was standing there trying to lead him into a higher religious or
political conviction. And that is the case with Scientology." Extract from
Phoenix Lectures. by L. Ron Hubbard (The celebrated lecture series given by
L. Ron Hubbard to the Professional Course, Phoenix, Arizona, in July 1954.)
L. Ron Hubbard's treatise on Scientology as a religious philosophy and a
religious practice is given in Hubbard Communications Bulletin (H.C.O.B) of
21 June, 1960 "Religious Philosophy and Religious Practice" (as revised 18
April, 1967). It is highly important that all promotional literature and
Church literature reflect the fact that Scientology is a religion. For
instance one promotional piece of recent time stated "Scientology is a
philosophy and a science." There was no mention that Scientology was a
religion. If any statements are made in any literature which reflect that
Scientology is other than a religious philosophy, an appropriate condition
must be assigned to the party so making same.
Kevin Kember Policy Safeguard Chief WW
Jane Kember The Guardian WW
Mary Sue Hubbard The Controller WW
for L. RON HUBBARD Founder
LRH:ei.rd Copyright c 1969 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 10 JANUARY 1968 (Reissued from LRH SECED 56 INT
June 14, 1965)
Remimeo BPI
POLITICS. FREEDOM FROM
1. I hereby declare Scientology to be non-political and non-
ideological. 2. Politics and ideology may be no part of any decision to
train or process individuals, and any such interrogation shall cease to be
a part of any application for training, processing or membership. 3. This
does not change any policy relating to suppressive persons. It does delete
any words in any form which seek to bring about a statement of political
allegiance or antagonism. 4. It must be kept in mind and brought forward
emphatically that Scientology does not work in the absence of official
control and no matter who sought to use its principles, has uniformly
failed in the hands of non-Scientologists and organizations not controlled
by the Central Organizations of Scientology or myself. 5. The reason for
this declaration is the consistent disaster visited upon her "allies" by
the United States government and the efforts of that government since 1955,
stepped up since 1963, to seize Scientology in the United States rather
than forbid or stop it and the role played by the United States in
inspiring the Victorian State attacks in Australia. Scientology technology
is no longer offered to the United States government in any effort to
assist her in political ends. Our participation extends only to our
willingness to process U.S. officials as individuals unconnected with their
political aims, if as individuals they are not debarred by other existing
policies relating to treating the insane or our Ethics system. 6. All
statements attacking any political entity or ideology are hereby withdrawn
and cancelled in any lectures or literature. 7. Scientologists may be
members of any political group on this planet without restraint only so
long as these individuals or that group do not attempt to seize Scientology
for their own warlike ends and so make it unworkable or distasteful by
invidious connection. 8. Scientology is for a free people and is itself on
this date declared free of any political connection or allegiance of any
kind whatever.
L. RON HUBBARD Founder
LRH:jp.rd Copyright c 1968 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 13 FEBRUARY 1965
General Non-Remimeo BPI
POLITICS
Now and then you hear me speak derisively of governments and
ideologies - including democracy. If, by seeing I criticize an ideology,
anyone seeks to believe I embrace its opposite, he has failed to get the
point. What political system could work amongst very aberrated people? A
democracy or a Communism would be a huge joke in an insane asylum. Well,
isn't it? The basic building block of any political system is the
individual. One can seek to avoid this point by conceiving of the masses.
But you can't have masses which aren't made up of single units. Therefore
the single unit is the basis of a mass. No political system applied to a
colony of monkeys would have anything to govern but monkeys. That's plain,
certainly. A political system seeking to function amongst ignorant,
illiterate and barbaric people could have marvellous principles but could
only succeed in being ignorant, illiterate and barbaric unless one
addressed the people one by one and cured the ignorance, illiteracy and
barbarism of each citizen. The collective think of apes is ape-think. A
Fascism led by and applied to idiots would be idiot-Fascism. So there is no
reason to suppose any political system is any better than those who use it
to govern or be governed. The only difference in existing systems of
politics is their relative values in giving the individual a chance to
develop and receive a higher level of personal sanity and ability. That
rules out any system which witch hunts, freezes opportunity, or suppresses
the right to improve by any workable system or suppresses a workable
system. Watching the U.S. and Australia fight Scientology with blind fury
while supporting oppressive mental and religious practices proves that
democracy, applied to and used by aberrated people, is far from an ideal
activity and is only aberrated democracy. Every human has in common with
every other human the same reactive bank. This is the most they have in
common. The reactive bank-unconscious mind, whatever you care to call it-
suppresses all decent impulses and enforces the bad ones. Therefore a
democracy is a collective-think of reactive banks. Popular opinion is bank-
opinion. Any human group is likely to elect only those who will kill them.
That's concluded from actual 1950 experiments. The group succeeds only by
the efforts of individuals who rise above their banks and do their best for
their fellows despite the vicious character of groups and the idiot nature
of collective-think. Believe in the individual being and work with him and
you will find he is basically good. Work only with a group and you work
with collective-think which is basically bank and therefore evil.
Scientology gives us our first chance to have a real democracy. By freeing
from the worst aberrations each individual, one then achieves a group which
doesn't react only on bank and which will be, like the individual,
basically good. For the bank was made to keep people who were not bad from
going bad. It was a mistake. So it is bad. We prove daily in Scientology
that an individual freed of aberrations reacts more decently toward his
fellows and that an individual, restimulated, acts worse; we prove that the
individual under stress of aberration is unreasonable and an individual
freed is bright. So we can conclude on actual evidence that the first true
democracy will emerge when we have freed each individual of the more
vicious reactive impulses. Such beings can reason, can agree on decent and
practical measures and be depended upon to evolve beneficial measures.
Until we have done that we will continue to be critical of human
"democracy" - and any other political philosophy advanced upon Man as a
cure for his ills. A political philosophy can't audit. We can. And don't be
so sensitive to popular reaction. Just get on with making a saner world and
it will all come out all right.
L. RON HUBBARD
LRH:jw.rd Copyright c 1965 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 22 OCTOBER 1962 RE-ISSUE SERIES (2) CenOCon
Franchise
THEORY OF SCIENTOLOGY ORGANIZATIONS (Reissue of HCO Bulletin of
September 21, 1958)
An organization is a number of terminals and communication lines
united with a common purpose. The actions of an organization can all be
classified under the heading of particle motion and change. To analyze a
post or a department or an organization, make a list of each particle it
handles (whether types of bodies, types of comm or any other item) and
follow each item from the point it enters the post or department or
organization to the point it exits. If a particle isn't handled properly
and passed along properly there is a confusion or a dead-end. To organize
an organization requires more than theory. One has to inspect and list the
particles and get their routes and desired changes of character enroute.
Then he has to see that terminals and comm lines exist to receive, change
and forward the particle. All types of particles belong to somebody, are
handled some way, come from somewhere and go somewhere. There are no
confusions when lines, terminals and actions exist for each type of
particle. Judgment and decision are needed in every staff post. If the
handling of items are just "petty details" then so is your fellow man a
"petty detail". There are no labourers in a Scientology organization. We
are all managers of these particles. Routes of handling are not orders to
handle but directions to go. A route is not necessarily correct for all
cases. It is only correct for most cases. Robots can't handle livingness.
Robot organizations and robot civilizations fail. They only seem to work-
like the commie empire seems to work until you find out everyone is
starving to death in it. A perfect organization is not a machine but a
pattern of agreements. A route is only the agreed upon procedure. It is not
only occasionally broken, it now and then should be. The terminals involved
make the agreement or the route doesn't work. A route along terminals that
never agreed is no route but a labyrinth. People agree to postulates they
can understand and appreciate. Hence, a route and handling begins with a
particle, develops with a theory, comes to life with an agreement and
continues to work because of judgment and decision. The routing, the comm
lines, the pattern of an organization do not do the work. The work is done
by living beings using good sense and skill. The organizational pattern
only makes their work easier and lessens confusion and overburden.
Governments, armies, big research bureaus reduce themselves down to routes
and titles. They don't work. They don't do work. They allow for no human
equation. Therefore, slave societies (composed only of routes and
unthinking terminals) are always beaten eventually by free peoples. There
is a point where routes and exact procedures become unworkable, just as
there is a point, facing a volume of work, that individuality and no
teamwork becomes unworkable. An optimum organization is never severely
either one. Total individualism and total mechanization alike are
impossible. So if you or your department or your organization seem to be
too heavily inclined to either one, yell don't talk. A bad organization
will fire you and you can do something more profitable. A good organization
will listen. BUT-always have a better idea than the one in use. Grumbling,
refusing to work don't work. A better idea, talked over with the terminals
on either side of you, put down in concise writing, submitted, will be put
into action in a good organization. Of course, there's always a chance that
the new proposed handling throws something out of gear elsewhere. If it
does, you have the right to know about it. An "organization" doesn't get
the work done. As an orderly plan it helps its terminals get the work done.
The staff as individuals do the work. An organization can help or hinder
getting the work done. If it helps, it's good. If it hinders, it should be
examined thoroughly. An organization can work wholly at "taking in its own
laundry". All the work that gets done is the work generated inside the shop
by unreal routes and weird changes of particles. This is a government circa
mid-20th Century. Its highest skill is murder which in its profundity it
makes legal. A totally democratic organization has a bad name in Dianetics
and Scientology despite all this talk of agreement. It has been found by
actual experiment (L.A. 1950) that groups of people called on to select a
leader from among them by nomination and vote routinely select only those
who would kill them. They select the talkers of big deeds and ignore the
doers. They seem to select unerringly the men of average skill. That is
never good enough in a leader and the people suffer from his lack of
understanding. If you ever have occasion to elect a leader for your group,
don't be "democratic" about it. Compare records as follows: Take the person
who is a good auditor, not just says he is. Take the person who has a good,
not necessarily the highest, profile and IQ. Take the person who can grant
beingness to others. And look at the relative serenity and efficiency of
any past command he may have had. And even then you're taking a chance. So
always elect temporarily and reserve the right of recall. If his first
action is to fire people, recall him at once and find another leader. If
the organization promptly prospers, keep him and confirm the election by a
second one. If the abundance of the organization sags in a month or so,
recall and find another. Popularity is some criterion-but it can be created
for an election only, as in the U.S. Select in an election or by selection
as an executive the person who can get the work done. And once he's
confirmed, obey him or keep him. He's rare. But beware these parliamentary
procedure boys and girls who know all the legal and time wasting processes
but who somehow never accomplish anything except chaos. A skilled,
successful leader is worth a million impressive hayseeds. Democracies hate
brains and skill. Don't get in that rut. In the U.S. War Between the States
militia companies elected their officers with great lack of success in
battle. They finally learned after tens of thousands of casualties that it
was skill not popularity that counted. Why be a casualty-learn first.
Democracy is only possible in a nation of clears-and even they can make
mistakes. When the majority rules the minority suffers. The best are always
a minority.
WHAT IS YOUR JOB?
Anything in an organization is your job if it lessens the confusion if
you do it. Your being exactly on post and using your exact comm lines
lessens confusion. But failure to wear another hat that isn't yours now and
then may cause more confusion than being exactly on post. The question when
you see you will have to handle something not yours is this: "Will it cause
less confusion to handle it or to slam it back onto its proper lines?"
Example: A preclear wandering around looking for somebody to sell him a
book. You see him. The book sales clerk isn't there. The books are. Now
what's the answer? You'll create a little confusion if you hand him a book,
take his money and give it to the book sales later. You'll create confusion
for your own post and the organization if you go chasing around trying to
find "book sales terminal". You'll create a feeling of unfriendliness if
you don't help the preclear get his book. Answer it by deciding which is
less confusing. You'll find out by experience that you can create confusion
by handling another's particles but you will also discover that you can
create confusion by not handling another's particles on occasion. The only
real error you can make in handling another's particles is to fail to tell
him by verbal or written comm exactly what you did. You stole his hat for a
moment. Well, always give it back. Remember, in a Scientology organization
every Scientologist on staff potentially wears not just his own but every
hat in the organization. He has to know more jobs than his own.
Particularly jobs adjacent to his post. He often has to do more jobs than
his own because those jobs have to be done and he sees it. A non-
Scientology member of an organization is only limited in what he can do in
the organization by lack of know-how. But the limitation is applicable only
to instruction and auditing. But a Scientologist: he may find himself
wearing any hat in the place including mine. And others may now and then
wear his hat. A staff member gets the job done of (1) his own post, (2) his
department, and (3) the whole organization. People who are always off line
and off post aren't doing their own jobs. When we find somebody always off
post and in our hair we know if we look at his post we'll find a rat's
nest. So there are extremes here as well.
HOW TO HOLD YOUR JOB Your hat is your hat. It is to be worn. Know it,
understand it, do it. Make it real. If it isn't real it is your fault since
you are the one to take it up and get it clean with an Executive. If he
doesn't straighten it up so you can do it, it's still your fault if it's
not done. You hold a job in a Scientology organization by doing your job.
There are no further politics involved-at least if I find out about it
there aren't. So do your job and you've got a job. And that's the way it
is. But on post or off, we only fail when we do not help. The "public" only
objects to us when we fail to help or when we fail to answer their
questions. So we have two stable data on which we operate whether we are on
post or not: HELP PEOPLE! ANSWER PEOPLE'S QUESTIONS EXACTLY! When you don't
you let everybody down.
NEATNESS OF QUARTERS - THE PUBLIC KNOWS US BY OUR MEST - A part of
everyone's hats is keeping a good mock-up in people, offices, classrooms,
quarters. Keep your desk and your Mest neat and orderly. It helps. And when
you see things getting broken down or run down or dirty, fix them or clean
them or if you can't, yell like hell on the right comm line.
THE DISPATCH SYSTEM The Dispatch System is not there to plague you but
to help you. Except when you've got to have speed, never use an inter-
office phone to another terminal. And never write a dispatch and present it
and you at some other point at the same time. That's "off-line" just as a
phone is "off-line". A good use of the organization's lines reduces
confusion. The other guy is busy, too. Why interrupt him or her
unnecessarily with routine that should go on the lines. You'll usually get
an answer in the same day or at least in 24 hours. The organization's comm
lines are pretty good. They make it possible for this small handful of us
to get more things done in this society than any other organization on
Earth in terms of actual accomplish - ment. A comm line can be jammed in
several ways. Principal of these is entheta. Ask yourself before it goes on
the lines-It's bad news but is it necessarily important? Another is
overburden. Too much traffic jams a line. Too long a dispatch doesn't get
read. Another is too little data. That can jam a line but thoroughly. It
takes more dispatches to find out what goes. Another way is to by-pass the
line itself-this jams the terminal. The final way, in broad classes, to jam
a comm line is to put erroneous data on it. The last is a pet hate of
Scientology people. Generally its form is "everybody knows". Example: "They
say that George is doing a bad job", or "Nobody liked the last newsletter".
The proper rejoinder is "Who is Everybody?" You'll find it was one person
who had a name. When you have critical data omit the "everybody"
generality. Say who. Say where. Otherwise, you'll form a bad datum for
somebody. When our actions are said to be unpopular the person or persons
saying so have names.
IN SUMMARY A post in a Scientology Organization isn't a job. It's a
trust and a crusade. We're free men and women-probably the last free men
and women on Earth. Remember, we'll have to come back to Earth some day no
matter what "happens" to us. If we don't do a good job now we may never get
another chance. Yes, I'm sure that's the way it is. So we have an
organization, we have a field we must support, we have a chance. That's
more than we had last time night's curtain began to fall on freedom. So
we're using that chance. An organization such as ours is our best chance to
get the most done. So we're doing it!
L. RON HUBBARD
LRH:gl.rd Copyright c 1962 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
[Added to by HCO P/L 25 July 1966, Allocation of Quarters-Arrangement
of Desks and Equipment, Volume 1, page 75.] HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 7 FEBRUARY 1965 REISSUED 15 JUNE 1970 (Reissued
28.1.73 to correct word on p. 39, para 2. [Change in this type style.])
Remimeo Sthil Students Assn/Org Sec Hat HCO Sec Hat Case Sup Hat Ds of P
Hat Ds of T Hat Staff Member Hat Franchise (issued May 1965) Note: Neglect
of this Pol Ltr has caused great hardship on staffs, has cost countless
millions and made it necessary in 1970 to engage in an all out
International effort to restore basic Scientology over the world. Within 5
years after the issue of this PL with me off the lines, violation had
almost destroyed orgs. "Quickie grades" entered in and denied gain to tens
of thousands of cases. Therefore actions which neglect or violate this
Policy Letter are HIGH CRIMES resulting in Comm Evs on ADMINISTRATORS and
EXECUTIVES. It is not "entirely a tech matter" as its neglect destroys orgs
and caused a 2 year slump. IT IS THE BUSINESS OF EVERY STAFF MEMBER to
enforce it. ALL LEVELS KEEPING SCIENTOLOGY WORKING HCO Sec or Communicator
Hat Check on all personnel and new personnel as taken on. We have some time
since passed the point of achieving uniformly workable technology. The only
thing now is getting the technology applied. If you can't get the
technology applied then you can't deliver what's promised. It's as simple
as that. If you can get the technology applied, you can deliver what's
promised. The only thing you can be upbraided for by students or pcs is "no
results". Trouble spots occur only where there are "no results". Attacks
from governments or monopolies occur only where there are "no results" or
"bad results". Therefore the road before Scientology is clear and its
ultimate success is assured if the technology is applied. So it is the task
of the Assn or Org Sec, the HCO Sec, the Case Supervisor, the D of P, the D
of T and all staff members to get the correct technology applied. Getting
the correct technology applied consists of: One: Having the correct
technology. Two: Knowing the technology. Three: Knowing it is correct.
Four: Teaching correctly the correct technology. Five: Applying the
technology. Six: Seeing that the technology is correctly applied. Seven:
Hammering out of existence incorrect technology. Eight: Knocking out
incorrect applications. Nine: Closing the door on any possibility of
incorrect technology. Ten: Closing the door on incorrect application. One
above has been done. Two has been achieved by many. Three is achieved by
the individual applying the correct technology in a proper manner and
observing that it works that way. Four is being done daily successfully in
most parts of the world. Five is consistently accomplished daily. Six is
achieved by instructors and supervisors consistently. Seven is done by a
few but is a weak point. Eight is not worked on hard enough. Nine is
impeded by the "reasonable" attitude of the not quite bright. Ten is seldom
done with enough ferocity. Seven, Eight, Nine and Ten are the only places
Scientology can bog down in any area. The reasons for this are not hard to
find. (a) A weak certainty that it works in Three above can lead to
weakness in Seven, Eight, Nine and Ten. (b) Further, the not-too-bright
have a bad point on the button Self-importance, (c) The lower the IQ, the
more the individual is shut off from the fruits of observation, (d) The
service facs of people make them defend themselves against anything they
confront good or bad and seek to make it wrong, (e) The bank seeks to knock
out the good and perpetuate the bad. Thus, we as Scientologists and as an
organization must be very alert to Seven, Eight, Nine and Ten. In all the
years I have been engaged in research I have kept my comm lines wide open
for research data. I once had the idea that a group could evolve truth. A
third of a Century has thoroughly disabused me of that idea. Willing as I
was to accept suggestions and data, only a handful of suggestions (less
than twenty) had long run value and none were major or basic; and when I
did accept major or basic suggestions and used them, we went astray and I
repented and eventually had to "eat crow". On the other hand there have
been thousands and thousands of suggestions and writings which, if accepted
and acted upon, would have resulted in the complete destruction of all our
work as well as the sanity of pcs. So I know what a group of people will do
and how insane they will go in accepting unworkable "technology". By actual
record the percentages are about twenty to 100,000 that a group of human
beings will dream up bad technology to destroy good technology. As we could
have gotten along without suggestions, then, we had better steel ourselves
to continue to do so now that we have made it. This point will, of course,
be attacked as "unpopular", "egotistical" and "undemocratic". It very well
may be. But it is also a survival point. And I don't see that popular
measures, self-abnegation and democracy have done anything for Man but push
him further into the mud. Currently, popularity endorses degraded novels,
self-abnegation has filled the South East Asian jungles with stone idols
and corpses, and democracy has given us inflation and income tax. Our
technology has not been discovered by a group. True, if the group had not
supported me in many ways I could not have discovered it either. But it
remains that if in its formative stages it was not discovered by a group,
then group efforts, one can safely assume, will not add to it or
successfully alter it in the future. I can only say this now that it is
done. There remains, of course, group tabulation or co-ordination of what
has been done, which will be valuable-only so long as it does not seek to
alter basic principles and successful applications. The contributions that
were worth while in this period of forming the technology were help in the
form of friendship, of defence, of organization, of dissemination, of
application, of advices on results and of finance. These were great
contributions and were, and are, appreciated. Many thousands contributed in
this way and made us what we are. Discovery contribution was not however
part of the broad picture. We will not speculate here on why this was so or
how I came to rise above the bank. We are dealing only in facts and the
above is a fact-the group left to its own devices would not have evolved
Scientology but with wild dramatization of the bank called "new ideas"
would have wiped it out. Supporting this is the fact that Man has never
before evolved workable mental technology and emphasizing it is the vicious
technology he did evolve-psychiatry, psychology, surgery, shock treatment,
whips, duress, punishment, etc, ad infinitum. So realize that we have
climbed out of the mud by whatever good luck and good sense, and refuse to
sink back into it again. See that Seven, Eight, Nine and Ten above are
ruthlessly followed and we will never be stopped. Relax them, get
reasonable about it and we will perish. So far, while keeping myself in
complete communication with all suggestions, I have not failed on Seven,
Eight, Nine and Ten in areas I could supervise closely. But it's not good
enough for just myself and a few others to work at this. Whenever this
control as per Seven, Eight, Nine and Ten has been relaxed the whole
organizational area has failed. Witness Elizabeth, N.J., Wichita, the early
organizations and groups. They crashed only because I no longer did Seven,
Eight, Nine and Ten. Then, when they were all messed up, you saw the
obvious "reasons" for failure. But ahead of that they ceased to deliver and
that involved them in other reasons. The common denominator of a group is
the reactive bank. Thetans without banks have different responses. They
only have their banks in common. They agree then only on bank principles.
Person to person the bank is identical. So constructive ideas are
individual and seldom get broad agreement in a human group. An individual
must rise above an avid craving for agreement from a humanoid group to get
anything decent done. The bank-agreement has been what has made Earth a
Hell-and if you were looking for Hell and found Earth, it would certainly
serve. War, famine, agony and disease has been the lot of Man. Right now
the great governments of Earth have developed the means of frying every
Man, Woman and Child on the planet. That is Bank. That is the result of
Collective Thought Agreement. The decent, pleasant things on this planet
come from individual actions and ideas that have somehow gotten by the
Group Idea. For that matter, look how we ourselves are attacked by "public
opinion" media. Yet there is no more ethical group on this planet than
ourselves. Thus each one of us can rise above the domination of the bank
and then, as a group of freed beings, achieve freedom and reason. It is
only the aberrated group, the mob, that is destructive. When you don't do
Seven, Eight, Nine and Ten actively, you are working for the Bank dominated
mob. For it will surely, surely (a) introduce incorrect technology and
swear by it, (b) apply technology as incorrectly as possible, (c) open the
door to any destructive idea, and (d) encourage incorrect application. It's
the Bank that says the group is all and the individual nothing. It's the
Bank that says we must fail. So just don't play that game. Do Seven, Eight,
Nine and Ten and you will knock out of your road all the future thorns.
Here's an actual example in which a senior executive had to interfere
because of a pc spin: A Case Supervisor told Instructor A to have Auditor B
run Process X on Preclear C. Auditor B afterwards told Instructor A that
"It didn't work". Instructor A was weak on Three above and didn't really
believe in Seven, Eight, Nine and Ten. So Instructor A told the Case
Supervisor "Process X didn't work on Preclear C". Now this strikes directly
at each of One to Six above in Preclear C, Auditor B, Instructor A and the
Case Supervisor. It opens the door to the introduction of "new technology"
and to failure. What happened here? Instructor A didn't jump down Auditor
B's throat, that's all that happened. This is what he should have done:
Grabbed the Auditor's report and looked it over. When a higher executive on
this case did so she found what the Case Supervisor and the rest missed:
that Process X increased Preclear C's TA to 25 TA divisions for the session
but that near session end Auditor B Qed and Aed with a cognition and
abandoned Process X while it still gave high TA and went off running one of
Auditor B's own manufacture, which nearly spun Preclear C. Auditor B's IQ
on examination turned out to be about 75. Instructor A was found to have
huge ideas of how you must never invalidate anyone, even a lunatic. The
Case Supervisor was found to be "too busy with admin to have any time for
actual cases". All right, there's an all too typical example. The
Instructor should have done Seven, Eight, Nine and Ten. This would have
begun this way. Auditor B: "That process X didn't work." Instructor A:
"What exactly did you do wrong?" Instant attack. "Where's your auditor's
report for the session? Good. Look here, you were getting a lot of TA when
you stopped Process X. What did you do?" Then the PC wouldn't have come
close to a spin and all four of these would have retained certainty. In a
year, I had four instances in one small group where the correct process
recommended was reported not to have worked. But on review found that each
one had (a) increased the TA, (b) had been abandoned, and (c) had been
falsely reported as unworkable. Also, despite this abuse, in each of these
four cases the recommended, correct process cracked the case. Yet they were
reported as not having worked! Similar examples exist in instruction and
these are all the more deadly as every time instruction in correct
technology is flubbed, then the resulting error, uncorrected in the
auditor, is perpetuated on every pc that auditor audits thereafter. So
Seven, Eight, Nine and Ten are even more important in a course than in
supervision of cases. Here's an example: A rave recommendation is given a
graduating student "because he gets more TA on pcs than any other student
on the course!" Figures of 435 TA divisions a session are reported. "Of
course his model session is poor but it's just a knack he has" is also
included in the recommendation. A careful review is undertaken because
nobody at levels 0 to IV is going to get that much TA on pcs. It is found
that this student was never taught to read an E - Meter TA dial! And no
instructor observed his handling of a meter and it was not discovered that
he "overcompensated" nervously, swinging the TA 2 or 3 divisions beyond
where it needed to go to place the needle at "set". So everyone was about
to throw away standard processes and model session because this one student
"got such remarkable TA". They only read the reports and listened to the
brags and never looked at this student. The pcs in actual fact were making
slightly less than average gain, impeded by a rough model session and
misworded processes. Thus, what was making the pcs win (actual Scientology)
was hidden under a lot of departures and errors. I recall one student who
was squirreling on an Academy course and running a lot of off-beat whole
track on other students after course hours. The academy students were in a
state of electrification on all these new experiences and weren't quickly
brought under control and the student himself never was given the works on
Seven, Eight, Nine and Ten so they stuck. Subsequently, this student
prevented another squirrel from being straightened out and his wife died of
cancer resulting from physical abuse. A hard, tough instructor at that
moment could have salvaged two squirrels and saved the life of a girl. But
no, students had a right to do whatever they pleased. Squirreling (going
off into weird practices or altering Scientology) only comes about from non-
comprehension. Usually the non-comprehension is not of Scientology but some
earlier contact with an off-beat humanoid practice which in its turn was
not understood. When people can't get results from what they think is
standard practice, they can be counted upon to squirrel to some degree. The
most trouble in the past two years came from orgs where an executive in
each could not assimilate straight Scientology. Under instruction in
Scientology they were unable to define terms or demonstrate examples of
principles. And the orgs where they were got into plenty of trouble. And
worse, it could not be straightened out easily because neither one of these
people could or would duplicate instructions. Hence, a debacle resulted in
two places, directly traced to failures of instruction earlier. So proper
instruction is vital. The D of T and his Instructors and all Scientology
Instructors must be merciless in getting Four, Seven, Eight, Nine and Ten
into effective action. That one student, dumb and impossible though he may
seem and of no use to anyone, may yet some day be the cause of untold upset
because nobody was interested enough to make sure Scientology got home to
him. With what we know now, there is no student we enrol who cannot be
properly trained. As an instructor, one should be very alert to slow
progress and should turn the sluggards inside out personally. No system
will do it, only you or me with our sleeves rolled up can crack the back of
bad studenting and we can only do it on an individual student, never on a
whole class only. He's slow = something is awful wrong. Take fast action to
correct it. Don't wait until next week. By then he's got other messes stuck
to him. If you can't graduate them with their good sense appealed to and
wisdom shining, graduate them in such a state of shock they'll have
nightmares if they contemplate squirreling. Then experience will gradually
bring about Three in them and they'll know better than to chase butterflies
when they should be auditing. When somebody enrols, consider he or she has
joined up for the duration of the universe-never permit an "open-minded"
approach. If they're going to quit let them quit fast. If they enrolled,
they're aboard, and if they're aboard, they're here on the same terms as
the rest of us-win or die in the attempt. Never let them be half-minded
about being Scientologists. The finest organizations in history have been
tough, dedicated organizations. Not one namby-pamby bunch of panty-waist
dilettantes have ever made anything. It's a tough universe. The social
veneer makes it seem mild. But only the tigers survive-and even they have a
hard time. We'll survive because we are tough and are dedicated. When we do
instruct somebody properly he becomes more and more tiger. When we instruct
half-mindedly and are afraid to offend, scared to enforce, we don't make
students into good Scientologists and that lets everybody down. When Mrs.
Pattycake comes to us to be taught, turn that wandering doubt in her eye
into a fixed, dedicated glare and she'll win and we'll all win. Humour her
and we all die a little. The proper instruction attitude is, "You're here
so you're a Scientologist. Now we're going to make you into an expert
auditor no matter what happens. We'd rather have you dead than incapable."
Fit that into the economics of the situation and lack of adequate time and
you see the cross we have to bear. But we won't have to bear it forever.
The bigger we get the more economics and time we will have to do our job.
And the only things which can prevent us from getting that big fast are
areas in from One to Ten. Keep those in mind and we'll be able to grow
Fast. And as we grow our shackles will be less and less. Failing to keep
One to Ten, will make us grow less. So the ogre which might eat us up is
not the government or the High Priests. It's our possible failure to retain
and practise our technology. An Instructor or Supervisor or Executive must
challenge with ferocity instances of "unworkability". They must uncover
what did happen, what was run and what was done or not done. If you have
One and Two, you can only acquire Three for all by making sure of all the
rest. We're not playing some minor game in Scientology. It isn't cute or
something to do for lack of something better. The whole agonized future of
this planet, every Man, Woman and Child on it, and your own destiny for the
next endless trillions of years depend on what you do here and now with and
in Scientology. This is a deadly serious activity. And if we miss getting
out of the trap now, we may never again have another chance. Remember, this
is our first chance to do so in all the endless trillions of years of the
past. Don't muff it now because it seems unpleasant or unsocial to do
Seven, Eight, Nine and Ten. Do them and we'll win.
L. RON HUBBARD Founder LRH:jw.rr.nt.ka.mes.rd Copyright c 1965, 1970,
1973 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 14 FEBRUARY 1965 (Reissued on 7 June 1967, with
the word "instructor" replaced by "supervisor".)
Remimeo All Hats BPI
SAFEGUARDING TECHNOLOGY
For some years we have had a word "squirreling". It means altering
Scientology, off-beat practices. It is a bad thing. I have found a way to
explain why. Scientology is a workable system. This does not mean it is the
best possible system or a perfect system. Remember and use that definition.
Scientology is a workable system. In fifty thousand years of history on
this planet alone, Man never evolved a workable system. It is doubtful if,
in foreseeable history, he will ever evolve another. Man is caught in a
huge and complex labyrinth. To get out of it requires that he follow the
closely taped path of Scientology. Scientology will take him out of the
labyrinth. But only if he follows the exact markings in the tunnels. It has
taken me a third of a century in this lifetime to tape this route out. It
has been proven that efforts by Man to find different routes came to
nothing. It is also a clear fact that the route called Scientology does
lead out of the labyrinth. Therefore it is a workable system, a route that
can be travelled. What would you think of a guide who, because his party
said it was dark and the road rough and who said another tunnel looked
better, abandoned the route he knew would lead out and led his party to a
lost nowhere in the dark. You'd think he was a pretty wishy-washy guide.
What would you think of a supervisor who let a student depart from
procedure the supervisor knew worked. You'd think he was a pretty wishy-
washy supervisor. What would happen in a labyrinth if the guide let some
girl stop in a pretty canyon and left her there forever to contemplate the
rocks? You'd think he was a pretty heartless guide. You'd expect him to say
at least, "Miss, those rocks may be pretty, but the road out doesn't go
that way." All right, how about an auditor who abandons the procedure which
will make his preclear eventually clear just because the preclear had a
cognition? People have following the route mixed up with "the right to have
their own ideas." Anyone is certainly entitled to have opinions and ideas
and cognitions-so long as these do not bar the route out for self and
others. Scientology is a workable system. It white tapes the road out of
the labyrinth. If there were no white tapes marking the right tunnels, Man
would just go on wandering around and around the way he has for eons,
darting off on wrong roads, going in circles, ending up in the sticky dark,
alone. Scientology, exactly and correctly followed, takes the person up and
out of the mess. So when you see somebody having a ball getting everyone to
take peyote because it restimulates prenatals, know he is pulling people
off the route. Realize he is squirreling. He isn't following the route.
Scientology is a new thing-it is a road out. There has not been one. Not
all the salesmanship in the world can make a bad route a proper route. And
an awful lot of bad routes are being sold. Their end product is further
slavery, more darkness, more misery. Scientology is the only workable
system Man has. It has already taken people toward higher I.Q., better
lives and all that. No other system has. So realize that it has no
competitor. Scientology is a workable system. It has the route taped. The
search is done. Now the route only needs to be walked. So put the feet of
students and preclears on that route. Don't let them off of it no matter
how fascinating the side roads seem to them. And move them on up and out.
Squirreling is today destructive of a workable system. Don't let your party
down. By whatever means, keep them on the route. And they'll be free. If
you don't, they won't.
L. RON HUBBARD Founder
LRH:jw.jp.rd Copyright c 1965, 1967 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS
RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 19 OCTOBER 1968 Remimeo All staff All students
When a student has finished a course, he should want the next course
in training. If not, out Tech or out Ethics or both. Just as a pc's good
indicators should be in wanting next level of auditing, so should a
student's good indicators be in wanting next level of training. If this is
not the case something missed by the supervisor or student or both the
supervisor and the student.
L. RON HUBBARD Founder
LRH:nf.ei.rd Copyright c 1968 by L. Ron Hubbard HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS
OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 31 MAY 1968 Issue II (Reissued from Flag Order
808)
Remimeo
AUDITORS
Auditors have since the first session of Scientology been the only
individuals on this planet, in this Universe capable of freeing man. An
Auditor is one who has been trained in the technology of Scientology. An
Auditor applies standard technology to pre-clears. At times some will
forget or choose to ignore the fact that the Auditor is not just another
fellow or a guy who works in Scientology. An Auditor is a highly trained
specialist, no matter what level of Auditor. He or she is the only one who
can give man the truth, that man knows. An Auditor is to be respected. An
Auditor is very important in Clearing this Planet, and this Universe. It's
a big job and the Auditor will do it. All Auditors are appreciated. Special
designations and insignia are to be developed to distinguish the Auditor
from others and signalize his class.
L. RON HUBBARD Founder
LRH:sb.js.rd Copyright c 1968 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED UBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE Saint Hill Manor, East
Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 21 FEBRUARY 1964 CenOCon Sthil STAFF REGULATIONS
AUDITING VERSUS JOB (EFFECTIVE ON RECEIPT) It is an Academy maxim that if
an auditor feels warm to the touch he or she can audit. There is no excuse
of CASE. "I can't audit today because my case...." If this were not the
maxim, a lot of auditing would never get done. Now we are extending this to
administrative staff members in Scientology organizations. Case is no
excuse. If a staff member's breath can be detected on a mirror he or she
can do his or her job. Further, Case is not to be used as an excuse for
errors or transfers off post or retraining or being ordered to the HGC,
etc. Case is no excuse. Case is not a point. This gives rise to the
following regulations which become effective on receipt and which cancel
any conflicting earlier policies. A staff member may not be absent from his
or her job to give or receive auditing during working hours. Exception only
staff members whose job it is to audit. Exception: Severe temporary illness
or physical injury. A staff member may not be ordered to training or
processing as a disciplinary measure or as an effort to improve performance
on the job. A staff member may not be transferred to another post or
dismissed because of "Case Difficulties". All disadvantageous transfers,
suspensions or dismissals shall be made only by reason of actual
performance of duties and the usual and easily recognized sins of omission
or commission. The individual staff member's preclear classification may be
taken into account in appointments and promotions just as his or her
auditor classification would be, but may not be taken into account as a
cause for demotion, suspension or dismissal. Whereas it is of interest that
all Scientologists have their cases in good condition to the extent of
conducting co - audits in the individual's own time in instruction and
auditing, it is also true that Scientology organizations are not huge HGCs
for staff members and have their own functions. A staff member may not use
his working hours for being instructed or trained and aside from Academy
personnel whose job it is to train students, a staff member may not employ
his or her staff time to instruct. Exception: Technical officers may give
staff auditors instructions about their preclears or students, but no
course or conference may be held for the purpose. The possession of a
certificate carries with it the responsibility of knowing the skills
covered by it. Constant retraining within a level for which the auditor has
already been classified is forbidden. Staff members aspiring to the next
higher classification should become part of evening or weekend courses
teaching those skills. Enrolment in such courses may or may not be at the
expense of the organization according to the decision of the Association or
Organization Secretary. Co-audit training or processing may not be
undertaken during working hours. An organization should arrange at its own
cost the management of a co-audit for its staff members, providing all such
training or processing is done in the staff member's own time.
Administrative staff members or executives may not audit during working
hours unless specifically transferred temporarily or permanently to the HGC
and no transfer shall be for less than one week, during which the duties
shall consist exclusively of auditing and during which a minimum of 25
hours must be delivered. A Director of Processing may not assign himself to
audit individual pcs for full intensives.
LRH:gl.rd L. RON HUBBARD Copyright c 1964 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS
RESERVED HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 10 AUGUST 1964
Central Orgs General Remimeo
GOOD WORKERS
It should be established as a matter of principle that the staff
member who does a good job gets lots of processing and a person who is not
doing a good job is given minimal processing. Don't be held down by people
who do a bad job just to be processed. It pins the whole advance of the Org
down to its lowest staff member's case. An almost perfectly run
organization will fail to get in income or give service if the reverse
policy is used and if the whole effort to improve the Org is concentrated
on processing only erring staff members. You can only go a certain distance
in improving an Org by processing staff members. Beyond that it deprives
people of an incentive to do a good job. People don't have to be aberrated
and the best job deserves the fastest road to O.T.
L. RON HUBBARD
LRH:jw.rd Copyright c 1964 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 26 MAY 1961 (Reissued on 21 June 1967) Remimeo
All Staff Tech Hats Qual Hats A MESSAGE TO THE EXECUTIVE SECRETARIES AND
ALL ORG STAFF QUALITY COUNTS Clearing is now in the reach of every
Scientologist. Excellent Auditor training is now in the reach of every
Academy. And these are the only things in the long run that will count.
When I see an Organization staff panting after newspaper publicity or going
mad on the subject of dissemination, and at the same time turning in to me
bad results and poor student quality, I know somebody has their targets
mixed up. Quality is the only thing that counts. If quality in training and
processing is not given first rank and constant priority by Secretaries or
Executive Secretaries, then all the administration in the world will not
make the grade for any Central Org. Deliver the goods. That's a crude way
to put it. But if you want a new and better civilization you won't get it
by advertising or worrying what people think of you. You will get it only
by releasing and clearing people and sending them out into the society to
get the show on the road in all branches of human activity, including
Scientology. I know we have been a long time without clearing people. But
we're clearing them now. What does it take to clear people? It takes highly
skilled and tightly supervised auditing. It takes good technology. It takes
good technical application. If you'll forget about how easy it is to mob
students all up in a class and actually confront each student as an
individual, make sure he knows every essential step he has to know, make
sure all his questions get answered, you'll have auditors that can audit.
Will you please put attention on raising technical skill in the HGC,
releasing people, clearing people, and on the quality of training in the
Academy to the end of getting every student capable of all the steps
necessary to release people. I have made the grade technically in the field
of research. Now it's time to drop all the booboo's and nonsense. All you
have to do in an Org is release and clear people and turn out auditors who
can release people and keep in contact with the public and treat them well
and you're over the top. This morning I received a cable from an Org. An
urgent cable. Did it say, "How do you assess for a Pre-Hav level" or
something sensible? No, it didn't. It said, "Send us some biographical data
for a newspaper article." I spit. That Org is doing the lousiest job
possible in Technical and is all worked up to get publicity. What's this?
Do they think a society in this shape will approve Scientology into power?
Hell no! And to hell with this society. We're making a new one. So let's
skip the approval button from a lot of wogs and settle down to work to make
new people and better people. Then maybe you'll have a society. Right here
and right now this policy is laid down in concrete with an atomic branding
iron: THE FIRST AND PRIMARY GOAL OF AN ORGANIZATION IS DELIVERING THE
FOREMOST TECHNICAL QUALITY THAT CAN BE DELIVERED IN ITS AREA. All right.
I've made my technical target bang in the bull's eye. You can release and
clear. You can train auditors well. Well, Christ! Let's do it, do it, do
it!
L. RON HUBBARD LRH:ph.jp.rd Founder Copyright c 1961, 1967 by L. Ron
Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 29 MAY 1961
CenOCon
QUALITY AND ADMIN IN CENTRAL ORGS
The function of the Administrative Personnel in a Central Organization
is to make technical quality possible and get it delivered to
Scientologists and the public. Administration is no unimportant function.
On the contrary, I had to work in Scientology a long time before I found
out that in the absence of good administration, technical quality is
impossible. At first I counted on high calibre business men to do it. Then
I found, after 1954, that they didn't have a clue and that their use had
led us on a bad course. So we had to develop and learn administration and
we are winning on it. An administrative personnel is there to keep the
lines moving and the function of his post operating. Administrative
personnel gets Scientology to the public, keeps the public happy and the
organization solvent. Administrative personnel are there to keep
Administration out of technical hands and let technical work.
Administration gets the public in and out, keeps communication going, gets
the data to tech and keeps the Org from going broke. Administration is,
however, owed something by technical. If Administration gets people in for
service it is only right that that service, when rendered by technical, be
the highest possible quality. For if Administration in all departments is
not backed up by quality technical achievements, then administration is
betrayed. If one keeps, as in accounts, collecting money for service
rendered by technical, then accounts has a right to demand that it was good
service or else the accountant, in collecting, betrays. Therefore,
Administration may at any time, just as technical may demand good Admin,
demand of technical that it produce and hold its own. As of this moment
there is no excuse of any kind for any technical failure in any Central
Org. The moment we got all the tools, it showed up that technical often had
not understood any of the tools it already had. A clear cut, simple routine
as it now exists makes Auditing and Training a problem in black and white.
Either it is done or it isn't. If results are not forthcoming for any
person as of now, then somebody is goofing. And it won't be any small goof.
It is working out that goofs are of this magnitude: Auditor does not know
anything about reading a meter but has been kidding us one and all that he
or she knew; Auditor has not the vaguest on how to handle rudiments;
Auditor couldn't security check Krushchev and find a crime; Auditor has no
clue about assessment; Auditor just doesn't even report to session. That
would be the sort of thing it would take to keep Scientology from working
on every case. The errors are gross, never slight, if a case doesn't move.
All right. Admin personnel do their job. Therefore they have a right to
expect techwill do its job. The whole source of low units is tech failure.
Bad tech makes it almost impossible to get pcs or students in. Therefore
Admin has a right to raise hell over bad tech. A graph drops. ARC breaks
gleam clear to anyone. Admin, working at a less interesting job, has the
right to scream loud enough to be heard on Arcturus. Because that took a
fantastic, large technical goof to achieve. None can now say all is
changing in Tech. The only thing that's changing is the communication and
information to get tech to do its job. Low units, lack of enough personnel,
lack of new executive personnel all trace to tech failure in the past. Now
is the time to make good. We can release people easily. Why not do it? We
can clear people. Why not do it? A high executive in a Central Org who had
had a tech department that was failing, failing, failing owned up the other
day to "having all the data but being too busy to study it." He meant,
obviously he was too busy to do his job. And a Joburg Security Check found
out why. All staff members, Tech and Admin, of a Central Org, each one or
altogether, has a right to demand that every tech person knows his business
and does the job. All staff personnel in a meeting or by petition has a
right to demand certain personnel be sent to Saint Hill to be trained. All
staff personnel has a right to demand that any or all staff personnel be
given a Joburg Security Check, WW Sec Form 3, by somebody who knows how to
give one. All staff personnel has a right to demand practical and
functional releasing and clearing 1. of staff 2. of executives and 3. of
the public who buys our service. If we're going to put a new world here, we
better get going on the project. It isn't as if we could fool people
forever.
L. RON HUBBARD
LRH:jl.rd Copyright c 1961 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 20 JULY 1966 AMENDED 19 MARCH 1968
Remimeo
STAFF STATUS (Corrects all earlier Sec Eds and Pol Ltrs)
The intentions of the staff status system and the conduct of it
require a clarification as follows: TEMPORARY 1. After two weeks'
employment, if a newly hired staff member can obtain a written
recommendation from his immediate superior, he can report to the Staff
Training Officer in the Qualifications Division, give him the
recommendation and receive the training materials for provisional. He can
then study these and get checked out on them by the Staff Training Officer
and if passed, get his Staff Status One, Provisional. STATUS ONE
PROVISIONAL 2. When the Provisional Staff Member has his Staff Status One,
he can receive the materials for Staff Status Two from the Staff Training
Officer and begin to study and pass them by check outs from day to day.
When he has passed them all, he is given a written examination and, passing
this, he obtains his Staff Status Two. STAFF STATUS TWO 3. When a staff
member has his Staff Status Two he can apply for the materials for Staff
Status Three, executive rating, and so on up the Staff Status levels.
Obtaining an executive Staff Status does not ensure the appointment as an
executive but makes one eligible for such appointment. The one year service
between One and Two is abolished. Only a Staff Status Two is now eligible
for contract. Staff Status Two, if on contract, is entitled to free
processing up to Grade V, a 50% discount on training and further processing
and uniforms. No lower status has these privileges. This is true for all
Orgs, SH, WW and AO. A Temporary Status staff member may be dismissed,
transferred or demoted without any Ethics action. Any person still a
temporary status after 3 months on staff will be let go. A Staff Status One
must have been given an Ethics Hearing and found guilty of a misdemeanor or
more in order to be dismissed but may be transferred without a hearing. A
Staff Status Two must be given a Committee of Evidence and found guilty
beyond reasonable doubt to be dismissed and an Ethics Hearing to be demoted
or transferred. A deputy or acting appointment may be demoted without
Ethics action, but only to the last permanent grade. Staff Members may
request transfer or demotion without Ethics action. PENALTY If a Staff
Member breaks his Contract, leaving employ or going to a higher Org with
Contract incomplete, he is then liable for FULL PAYMENT of all courses and
processing he has received at FULL RATE (not just 50%), and owes for all
transport or expenses he may have been paid. SECURITY CHECKS Security
Checks should be given any new staff on a meter. When a theft or insecurity
has occurred staff should consent to such a check and such a consent is
contained in the hiring Contract. CHECK OUTS Any staff member receiving a
check out from the Staff Training Officer and flunking is told to go off
and study some more. The item being checked out is marked with a date and
initial at the point just about where the flunk occurred and if the staff
member comes for re-examination within one week, the item being checked out
is simply checked from the last mark on. But if more than one week elapses
the whole item must be examined again. A staff member is only sent to STAFF
REVIEW OFFICER for remedies if his flunks have been continual and he is not
making progress at all. A log, loose leaf, containing the names of a staff
member per page is kept by the Staff Training Officer. The Staff Training
Officer may not hold any additional post than Staff Review Officer and if
so check outs must consistently be at one period of the day and review
another. If traffic is too heavy not even this additional hat may be worn.
If Staff Review Officer is singly held the holder may also audit staff, and
do assists. ORG BOARD The Org Board must reflect the status of a staff
member. UPPER STATUS GRADES Grades Three and above are given check sheets
by the Guardian WW. EVENING STUDY Staff members should study in their own
time not on the job. But they may be examined or reviewed while on the job.
L. RON HUBBARD Founder LRH:jc.rd Copyright c 1966, 1968 by L. Ron
Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED [Note: The 19 March 1968 amendment added the
last sentence in paragraph 8, and also the section headed "Penalty"; and
under "Security Check" added and such a consent is contained in the hiring
Contract and changed No Security Check should be given any new staff on a
meter except investigatory personnel to the above.] ADDENDUM per HCO POLICY
LETTER OF 22 AUGUST 1966 Issue III Only a staff member with Staff Status
Two is eligible for contract. Thus, before a Class VI may start his actual
Internship period, he must come on staff and while working in the org,
study for and attain Staff Status Two, at which time he will be eligible
for both Internship (provided of course he meets the other requirements for
Internship) and staff discounts. L. RON HUBBARD LRH:lb-r.rd Copyright c
1966 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 3 OCTOBER 1960
Sthil
HOLIDAY PAY AND SICK LEAVE (Reissued)
This Policy Letter is intended to summarize and clarify the schemes
for holiday pay and sick leave in operation at Saint Hill. Both schemes are
in line with similar schemes which apply in other Scientology Organizations
all over the world. HOLIDAY PAY Holiday pay is allowed to all staff who
work full time on a weekly wage, on the following scale: 3 months' service
= 3 days 6 months' service = 5 days 9 months' service = 7 days 1 year's
service = 10 days The "days" referred to are working days. For each year of
continuous service, therefore, a staff member would receive two full weeks'
holiday pay. Each day's pay for lesser periods would be estimated as one-
fifth of the gross weekly wage. A full time staff worker is one who works
35 hours or more per week regularly. A part time staff worker is one who
works less than 35 hours per week regularly. Part time workers, or those
who work on an hourly rate, do not normally receive any holiday pay.
Holiday pay is not normally granted unless the staff member has been
employed continuously for at least a year, even though a holiday may be
taken by permission. In all such cases, special permission must be obtained
before any holiday pay is granted. On leaving the organization, a staff
member is not entitled to any holiday pay unless he has been employed
continuously for at least a year. When taking a holiday, staff members who
normally work Saturdays or Sundays should do so before starting on holiday,
or have their pay docked for the time lost. SICK LEAVE Sick leave with pay
is allowed to full time staff members at the rate of 2 days in every
calendar month. Sick leave is not cumulative from one month to another.
Such pay is granted upon the presentation of a Doctor's certificate. Issued
by: Peter Hemery HCO Secretary WW for L. RON HUBBARD
LRH:js.pm.rd Copyright c 1960 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 10 NOVEMBER 1969
Remimeo
FORMER STAFF MEMBERS
Any former staff member who has not completed the contract he or she
signed when coming on staff, is to repay the Org in full for any services
taken free, or at reduced rates, before being allowed to have any further
services at any Scientology Organization. This applies to former staff
members of the Sea Org, St. Hill Orgs and the Churches of Scientology. In
all cases where a contract is broken an Ethics Order is to be written and
distributed to Ethics WW, all St. Hills, all AOs and all Orgs. The Master
at Arms or Ethics Officer will keep a folder of this type of Ethics Order.
Under no circumstances whatever will any services be allowed for a former
staff member with an unpaid debt to a Scientology Organization. The HCO
Executive Secretary of the Organization at which a contract is broken must
ensure that an Ethics Order is written and distributed within 24 hours of
the contract breach. The Ethics Order is to include the amount of money
owed to the Org. A further Ethics Order is written and distributed as above
when the debt is paid in full.
W/0 Larry Krieger Mission Boom I/C for L. RON HUBBARD Founder
LRH:LK.nt.ei.rd Copyright c 1969 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 14 DECEMBER 1969
Remimeo Div 1's Div 2's Div 3's
ORG PROTECTION
Orgs who send their staff for training to a higher org, must first
demand of the staff member that he sign a Note to the extent of
5,000 in order that he may commence the course. (Each course received
by the staff member at org expense, is priced at the value of
5,000.) Such a Note, as mentioned above, must be legally binding in
that if he breaks his Contract, he is automatically in debt to the org for
5,000. Legal action is taken in the case of refusal to pay this debt,
or failure to adhere to regular payments until the debt has been paid off
fully. His Certs and Awards are suspended, and further training or
processing is denied until the matter is handled. SH & AO Registrars are
informed by the org of Contract breakers. Val Docs, Div 1, Dept 3, receives
the original of the Note once it is signed and witnessed, and Accounts
receives a copy for filing in the staff member's Accounts folder. A copy is
retained by the staff member and presented to the Registrar prior to being
enrolled on the course. NO NOTE = INELIGIBLE FOR THE COURSE. The note is
withdrawn and cancelled when the staff member has completed his Contract.
It is the intention of this Policy Letter that before Contracts are signed
and services taken at Org expense, due consideration is given to the
consequences of Contract breakage.
Lt. Robin Roos CS-3 for L. RON HUBBARD Founder
LRH: RR.rs.ei.rd Copyright c 1969 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS
RESERVED HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 29 MARCH 1965
Remimeo
EXCERPTS FROM HCO POLICY LETTER OF NOVEMBER 9, 1964 AND NOVEMBER 26,
1964 (REVISED) FOR STAFF HATS
STAFF MEMBER LOANS
All loans to staff members from any organization or outside source
must have the permission of the nearest Finance Secretary, before being
granted or received. The Finance Secretary must also at once report the
matter to Saint Hill. Exception is actual personal leases and/or Hire
Purchase or Time Payment purchases by the staff member for his or her own
use, and no monies may be borrowed by full or part time staff members from
past or present organizational students or pcs.
STAFF REGULATIONS Any staff member accepting for training or
processing any student or pc for his personal profit or for favours during
his time of employment on staff, or any HASI student or pc for two years
following will be subject to a Committee of Evidence and possible
suspension of a certificate or certificates and awards and made to refund
all fees so illegally received to the person who paid.
REPORTING OF UNUSUAL FAVOURS Any unusual favours received by a staff
member from organizational students or pcs must be reported to the HCO Area
Sec who must at once report the matter via HCO Continental to HCO Sec WW.
This includes uses of cars, apartments or receiving expenses as well as
other favours.
L. RON HUBBARD
LRH:mb.rd Copyright c 1965 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 21 MARCH 1965
General Non Remimeo Post Staff Boards HCO Sec Hat Sthil Sen Staff
STAFF MEMBERS AUDITING OUTSIDE PCs
It is expressly forbidden that executives or staff members of
Scientology Orgs (which of course include Saint Hill) audit for pay any
outside pcs while employed on staff in any organization anywhere in the
world. To do so with orgs on proportionate pay robs your fellow staff
member. Two executives have been relieved of post in the past two years for
permitting this practice in their orgs. If one has pcs they should be
turned over to the org. If staff works hard, pay, particularly under new
promotion programmes, is very adequate. Pay only becomes inadequate when
policy is out. To keep pay up, keep policy in. Staff Auditors may only
audit family and friends 8 hours per week without pay. This is the original
rule, to save them from demands on their free time. This is sometimes
interpreted wrongly as permission to audit 8 hours for fee. It is not so
applicable. They must not receive pay for those 8 hours. Just think what
you would do in Scientology if I started working for pay outside orgs.
Things would get really upset and, as proven by the slump all orgs take
whenever I move about or take time off (it just happened again), we need
all of us on the team. When I have audited pcs for pay, ever since there
have been orgs, I have turned over every cent to the org I was in-they were
just org pcs even when they applied to me. (I haven't offered to audit
anyone for years but it would still be done that way today if I did.)
Failure to report instances where the outside auditing policy is violated
is also reprehensible. If you don't have enough money, do your job well
enough to put all of us in clover. That's how I do it. Try it if you need
extra money. It works.
L. RON HUBBARD
LRH:ml.rd Copyright c 1965 By L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 4 JANUARY 1966
Remimeo All Staff Members
STAFF MEETING
Staff Meetings should convene on the first Tuesday evening of any
month at the Organization headquarters. The Chairman of the Staff Meeting
has always been and shall continue to be the Executive Director or his
deputy, the LRH Communicator. The business of the Staff Meeting shall be:
To gather agreement and permit staff origination on matters relating to
personnel and duties. To suggest promotional, maint - enance and
organizational changes to the executives of the Organization. For any staff
resolution to be a staff resolution, a majority of staff members must be
present, else there is no quorum. For any staff resolution to be passed or
conclusively killed, a majority vote of those present is necessary. In case
of a tie, only then does the Chairman vote. Robert's Rules of Order may be
applied or not by the Chairman to the Staff Meeting as the need of
formality may seem to be indicated but in no case should the business of
Staff Meeting be unduly retarded by the introduction of Rules for that
purpose. Staff Meeting resolutions should be made into minutes. These are
presented to the Advisory Council for information and the Executive
Director for approval before they become law. Special Staff Meetings not on
a regular meeting date may be called, (1) by the Executive Director or his
deputy the LRH Communicator, or (2) by a Staff Member on three days' notice
by posting a notice on the Comm Center Bulletin Board, stating the time
(but not during business hours) and the exact business to be covered by the
meeting and the meeting shall be convened only if a majority of staff then
sign or initial such notice. Neither meeting shall have legal force if a
majority of staff members are not present and if the Executive Director or
his deputy the LRH Communicator is not in the chair. Resolutions of such
meetings must proceed in the usual channels. The Secretarial to the
Executive Director shall take down and type all minutes of Staff Meeting.
L. RON HUBBARD
LRH: ml.rd Copyright c 1966 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 18 APRIL AD 15 Gen. Non Remimeo Exec HATS
Magazine Article Franchise Field Staff Members Hats CONTESTS AND PRIZES In
Scientology, we have a policy about CONTESTS and PRIZES. The surest way to
break a lot of hearts is to run a contest in which only a minority get
prizes. That is very homo sap. In Scientology we never offer minority type
prizes. Our CONTESTS must be planned so that EVERY ENTRANT gets a prize or
the prize. This comes from the nature of Scientology itself. Scientology is
the only "game" in the Universe where everybody wins. We must mirror this
fact and punch it home whenever we can. From this various policies develop:
Scientology is open to all people. In certificates and status the road is
open to all Scientologists who can qualify level by level. On any offering,
anybody can have it if he or she qualifies. We have lots of certificates
and grades. There are no exceptions. Anybody has a chance to go up in
certificates, staff status and case gain and state of beingness. Our posts
are something else. Bill's top attainment is his recovery of self. His
attainment is not becoming Joe. Our posts we hold in trust as our appointed
place. Though gained by ability, posts are not prizes. They are
responsibilities we hold to help. Therefore we do not seek each other's
posts. We respect the other fellow whatever his status and give him his
right to win the biggest prize of all, himself or herself. That prize is
won by dedicated exact application of Scientology and full support of our
mission in our organizations and the public. Organized, we can each one win
the biggest prize that can be offered-a full recovery of self. As a team,
helping one another, respecting each other's posts, our seniors and juniors
on staff, and following our admin and tech procedures, we keep the door
open and make the grade ourselves-the Top can't be reached without help,
without organization, without the policies that coordinate our actions and
the exact technology we apply. So we don't offer minority prizes. We
symbolize in every contest an open door for case and status gain for all by
giving everyone a prize in any "contest" we hold. And we hold our posts,
not as something to be contested for, but as a competent teammate in a
strong and well coordinated operation in which each one does his job. There
is no greater game in the Universe than Scientology, for it is the only
game in which everybody wins. And that places it far above all other games
and makes it the game of games where everybody gets the ultimate prize of
self-and sound companionship as well.
L. RON HUBBARD LRH:mb.rd Copyright c 1965 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS
RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
37 Fitzroy Street, London W.I HCO POLICY LETTER OF 2 JUNE 1959 CONVERT
TO SEC. E.D. PURCHASING LIABILITY OF STAFF MEMBERS All purchases by a
Scientology organization must be done by purchase order, duly agreed upon
and signed by those in authority before any purchase or contract may be
binding upon the organization. Should a purchase be made or a contract
entered into for the organization by a staff member with no purchase order,
the Association Secretary, Organization Secretary, HCO Secretary or person
in overall charge of that organization may refute the purchase or contract
and may require the offending staff member to pay for the purchase or
contract out of his own pocket as a personally entered into arrangement.
L. RON HUBBARD
LRH:gh.rd Copyright c 1959 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 22 SEPTEMBER 1965 Gen Non-Remimeo KEYS When a
person receives a key from the Key Officer, he or she must immediately sign
for it in the key book. If at any time a person leaves that space for which
he or she has a key, then sometime during that same day, that person MUST
take the key back to the Key Officer, who will then give the key to the new
occupier who then signs for it. If the Key Officer finds that a space has
been taken over by someone and that he or she has a key which has not been
signed for in the key book, then the previous owner of that space gets
fined 10/ - as he did not return the key to the proper source. The new
owner also gets fined 10/ - as he is using the space illegally. A person is
also fined 10/ - if he or she loses a key.
L. RON HUBBARD
LRH:ml.rd Copyright c 1965 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 8 SEPTEMBER 1965
Gen Non-Remimeo
SUPPLY OFFICER
All divisions should have a quantity of Internal Requisition Forms to
be filled in whenever supplies are needed. The person who requests the
goods, signs his name at the bottom of the form and so does his department
head. The exact reason why these goods are required should also be included
on the Internal Requisition Form. Only one type of requirement should be
asked for on one form, e.g. "A Black Biro and a Red Biro". This would be OK
as it is just on the subject of pens. But "A Black Biro and a ream of
foolscap paper" should be entered on two forms. This shows how many items
each division orders per week. Do not order extravagantly-you can only
write with one pen at a time; otherwise the Supply Officer has to do the
cutting down of requirements and this can lead to unnecessary ARC breaks.
All Internal Requisition Forms should be in the Supply Officer's basket by
12.0 p.m. each day. If you have ordered goods since 12.0 p.m. the previous
day, then you or a representative should go to the place appointed by the
Supply Officer between 1.0 p.m. and 1.30 p.m., where the Supply Officer
will issue the requirements. The Supplies that are available at short
notice are such items as: Folders of each division colour, paper of each
division colour, black, red, green Biro pens, felt pens for poster work and
make-up department, most envelopes, paper clips, drawing pins, typewriter
ribbons, Sellotape, foolscap paper, ink for stamp pads, rubber bands,
gummed labels and carbon paper. However, if in doubt, present yourself at
the appointed place between 1.0 and 1.30 p.m. The Supply Officer will then
inform you if the requirement is in stock or if it has had to be ordered.
When a requirement has to be ordered, the Supply Officer will inform you
when it arrives at Saint Hill. If it is a rush item, it can be issued as
soon as it arrives, otherwise it is collected at the correct time.
L. RON HUBBARD
LRH:ml.rd Copyright c 1965 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 15 FEBRUARY 1964
All Heads of Organizations HCO Sees Dir Admin Administrators and
Supervisors of Companies.
THE EQUIPMENT OF ORGANIZATIONS
The person in possession of organization equipment is responsible for
the equipment. On its loss or damage through carelessness or neglect the
person in whose charge it had been placed, not only the person who damaged
or neglected it, is liable to have to recompense the company or myself for
the cost of the repairs or loss of the equipment or some portion thereof.
Stock cards for all equipment possession or issue in organizations shall be
prepared by the administrative head of the organization. If equipment is
not so accounted for and is lost or damaged the administrator of the
company, not having a stock card of issue on it, becomes liable financially
to the organization or myself for its repair or replacement. The idea of
"company property" is both stupid and dangerous. That which is "owned by
everyone" is actually owned by no one and falls apart. A company,
corporation or state does not live or breathe and so it cannot care for
anything. The doubtless noble experiments of totalitarian communal states
such as Cuba or Russia starve and fail because of this one idee fixe: only
the state owns. That leaves nobody to have or take care of anything. Their
enormous five year plans never materialize because their tractors will not
run. Their tractors won't run because they belong to nobody. Saying they
belong to the state is a way of abandoning them. A company can't really own
anything since it has no concept of ownership. And you see how "company
property" falls apart. Look at it this way: You own those things that are
in your charge. When you take over a position you become richer by the
things that go with it. You stay rich as long as you keep them in good
shape. You get poor to the degree they go bad or won't work or get abused
because you incautiously lent them to a careless fellow worker. Righteous
indignation because "you messed up my typewriter" or "you scarred up my
auditing table" is not peculiar, it's quite in order. Look around you and
see what you own in your position. If two people use it, only one, even so,
can own it. It is curious that around orgs my own personal possessions are
given good care. I never worry about my Mest being in org hands. And a lot
of it is. If it's Ron's, it's taken care of. That's a long standing
observation. But "company property" gets badly abused at times. If you
figure that I own everything in Scientology and you own the things that go
with your position, we'll have more and have it longer.
___________________
There are three kinds of possessions in Scientology organizations.
TITLE A: These are permanent installations, buildings, walls, radiators,
anything fixed in place. TITLE B: Valuable equipment which is not
expendable. These are desks, typewriters, mimeo machines, blackboards,
chairs, furniture, rugs, decorations, cars, etc. TITLE C: These are
expendables. Office supplies, paper, chalk, stencils, dust rags, mops, etc.
They are issued on the understanding they will get used up. In inventorying
and making up cards of issue to persons in charge, Title A is issued to the
head of the organization or department exclusively using them. Title B is
made up to the head of the department or the person who is actually using
them. Title C is issued to the person using the material. Stock cards are
kept on Title A and Title B. The administrative head has to have a
signature for Title A and Title B as having given it to somebody who then
signs for it. No stock cards may be written as "Issued to Training Dept" or
"Director of Training". They are issued to Richard Roe, the person himself.
The main building is not issued to "Organization Secretary". It is issued
to George George, a person who happens also to be Organization Secretary. A
car is not issued to "Department of Materiel". It is issued to John John,
who happens also to be Director of Materiel. When a person is transferred,
his possessions are signed for by the person, as a person, who takes over
that position. And so long as the person who owned them has failed to
transfer them to the new person, he or she can be charged up for them.
Regardless of post transfers, the person on the Stock Card remains the
owner and is liable for any loss or abuse until the possessions are
actually signed for by somebody else. If it exists somebody owns it and has
signed for it. And until a new person signs for it the old owner is liable
for it regardless of his whereabouts or new post. Until it is signed for
initially it is owned by the administrative head and if anything happens to
it or it is lost, the administrative head is liable for it. The stock cards
should be stiff cards of good size kept in a box that fits them. There is
only one card per piece of equipment. The card says where it is and what it
is and when bought and has ample area for owning and transferring
signatures. Cards are prepared from Inventory and are checked by Accounts
records. A new acquisition brings about a new card which is then signed
for. The head of the organization is accountable personally for any losses
up to July 1, 1964, which occurred during his term of office. To dispose of
Title A or Title B, or account for its loss, it is necessary to survey it.
This is done by a board of three executives of departments who must see the
equipment being disposed of or certify it as lost. A Survey Board is liable
for any falsification of records. In organizations that have no Director of
Administration, the head of the organization acts in his capacity and is
responsible for having Stock Cards.
_________________
We are pretty good withal on the subject of equipment. Its loss or
damage is not one of our major problems. Only one organization,
Johannesburg, has gone mad on the subject where one Senogles, temporary
head of it, had a passion for "losing tapes and tape recorders". However,
we are expanding. Expansion needs some orderly ownership. There is not very
much Title A and Title B about so it is not a very heavy task to organize
it. If we straighten this out now, we'll save ourselves a mess later.
Further, at this time inventories for corporation transfers have to be done
anyway, so we may as well get it all done at once.
L. RON HUBBARD
LRH:gl.rd Copyright c 1964 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 3 NOVEMBER 1965
Remimeo
EQUIPMENT
Equipment of all types in HCO and the Org must be specifically
assigned to divisions and departments and the Inventory Officer must have a
signature for every piece of equipment in the organization. No single piece
of equipment may be across two or more divisions. Each piece must be wholly
in one. By equipment is meant any item costing more than �5 or
10. If a piece of equipment is lost or damaged or neglected there must
be a division, department and a person that can be named.
L. RON HUBBARD
LRH:ml.rd Copyright c 1965 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 12 OCTOBER 1967
Gen Non-Remimeo
OPERATIONAL, DEFINITION OF
A lot of trouble in the Sea Org comes from lack of grasp of what we
mean by Operational. Definition: AN ITEM THAT IS OPERATIONAL WORKS WELL
WITH - OUT FURTHER ASSISTANCE OR ATTENTION. This does NOT say that
operational means something works. It works well. It works without
assistance or patch up or holding on to it. It works without attention. It
doesn't have to be continually watched. The break down in mail comm stemmed
in part from the Photocopier. The error was not in the copier. The error
was in having something around that doesn't work well, needs continual
attention, breaks down regularly. That comes from not reading or
understanding the Ships Org Book. Operational was misunderstood. This
Photocopier was wholly non-operational in that it had to be
continually.nursed, was operated in bright light and took up tons of time.
Because it was there nobody simply typed a copy of the vital dispatches.
One must NOT keep non-operational things around or they must be made
operational by above definition. Also the early Flag Order about fast
communication being vital was not complied with. A costly mess resulted
from delayed comm. All because OPERATIONAL was not understood.
L. RON HUBBARD Founder
LRH:jp.rd Copyright c 1967 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
NOT HCO POLICY LETTER ORIGINAL COLOUR FLASH NOT GREEN ON WHITE HUBBARD
COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
LONDON Issued at Washington HCO BULLETIN OF 28 FEBRUARY 1957
ALL STAFF, U.S. and LONDON
HATS
Every Staff Department head in every organization should have a folder
in his desk in which to place all written material and bulletins which
apply to his job. This is not a casual action. It is vitally important. It
is his "hat". This folder should be labelled, for example, "Director of
Processing", or "Indoc Instructor", or "HCO Secretary", or any such post.
The folder should then receive, after study, any policy letter or executive
order or HCO Bulletin applying in general or in particular to that job. If
you do not have a complete hat, obtain from HCO or elsewhere the missing
pieces. Also, and this is very important, write up and paste into the front
of the folder a full description of your job. Only in this way can we have
use of such orders and bulletins. Only in this way could you be relieved in
an orderly fashion for a vacation or transferred to another post. Please do
this at once. Whoever is in charge of supplies can make a folder available
to you.
L. RON HUBBARD HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
37 Fitzroy Street, London W.1 HCO POLICY LETTER OF 5 MAY 1959
POLICY ON SEC E.D.S AND HATS
The function of Sec E.D.s and HATS is to preserve the policy, lines
and shape of the organization. However, when we make a staff the effect of
the post too much we spoil the necessity of the staff member creating his
post and job. He ceases to be at cause and cannot solve the problems of his
post. It is vital that HCO Area Sees at once get staff members to realize
the real role of Sec E.D.s and Hats and despite these to create the post
continually and handle the problems of that post. HCO Sees should insist
upon the necessity to be causative on a post while still abiding with
policy and purpose. Let's get these staff members at CAUSE POINT. The
actual mechanics are these. The individual case-wise is being a total
effect of something (nothing to do with Scientology or his post). Sec E.D.s
and hats come in as a lock on this-not themselves bad. The thing to do is
get an individual on post case-wise up to cause by modern processes. Then
preach at him (1) Keep the post created and in line and (2) Solve the
problems of his post and handle things. This is the path to raising (1)
Dissemination, (2) Effectiveness of Central Organizations and (3) Units!
Let's do it.
L. RON HUBBARD
LRH:mp.rd Copyright c 1959 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 15 SEPTEMBER 1959 CenOCon HATS AND OTHER FOLDERS
There are three classes of folders permanently assigned to each staff
member of HCO and the Central Org. The first of these is a hat folder. In
it should be included only the hat write-up and policies issued which
directly relate to the individual post. The second of these is a technical
folder into which one places all technical bulletins issued. These must
never be put in one's hat folder. The third of these is an organizational
folder. All bulletins and policy letters relating to one's job but only by
reason of being a staff member are included in this folder. These folders
are the following colours for your info and ready reference: Hat Folders
are Blue Staff Folders are Yellow Technical Folders are Goldenrod. THE
KEEPING OF THESE FOLDERS The responsibility of keeping these folders
straight lies with the individual staff member. One must always have all
the write-ups and policies governing his job ready to hand in his hat
folder. The reason for this is basically to keep the structure of the
organization in writing and straight for reference by the staff member.
There is also a great advantage here in having a complete hat folder in
one's desk when one is not present, for his duties and functions can be
looked up and done by another when he is on vacation. Further, when one is
promoted or posts are changed there is always a loss of the bits and
pieces, and the person new on post needs constant guidance from the member
leaving it unless all these bits are in the hat. Random despatches,
technical bulletins, general staff bulletins are never put in one's hat
folder. To do so is to thicken the folder up to a point where it cannot be
used for ready reference. This defeats the purpose of the hat folder for
the staff member himself and for his possible temporary relief. Letters and
policies governing the fact of being a member of staff, such as rules and
regulations of HCO or the organization and hours and schedules for this and
that, all belong in the staff member folder. This should include no
technical. All technical bulletins, policy letters and other technical
matters, and even one's own notes on the technical aspect of keeping one's
job straight, belong in a separate technical folder which, accumulating,
becomes very valuable to everyone.
________________________________________________________ This then is the
way we keep our posts and positions and functions straight in HCO as well
as in Central Organizations. These three types of folders are stored
handily in one's desk and are the only pieces of paper allowed in one's
desk. (Never make despatches or comm material vanish off the lines and into
a desk.) If these three folders are in good order one has a ready method of
checking over all sides of his job and all policies relating to his job. If
one has his folders it is possible to break down his job into various parts
when the volume of the post gets too high so as to have exact write-ups of
instructions to pass over to newly acquired assistants. Unless we have some
visible record of our posts and functions we can easily get into a
confusion of lines and actions, which has been known to bring chaos to an
organization to say nothing of much extra work and Dev-T to its
individuals. We have long since found that the old time 'organization
chart' was inadequate for our complex functions and actions. We have also
found that memory is inadequate in the supervision of posts and functions.
Your attention to and care of these three types of folders is recommended.
LRH:brb.rd L. RON HUBBARD Copyright c 1959 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL
RIGHTS RESERVED HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 1 JULY 1965 Issue III
Remimeo Basic Staff Hats
ALL DIVISIONS
HATS, THE REASON FOR
HAT: Slang for the title and work of a post in an org. Taken from the
fact that in many professions such as railroading the type of hat worn is
the badge of the job. Organization consists of certain people doing certain
jobs. Disorganization consists of each person wearing all hats regardless
of assignment. In a smooth organization that runs well and succeeds EACH
PERSON WEARS HIS OWN ASSIGNED HAT. When a person has a job that belongs to
another hat than his own, he passes the job to the other hat. Each staff
member is a specialist. He specializes in his own hat. When people wear
only their own hats then one has terminals in the org. If terminals exist
then communication can flow correctly. If communication can flow correctly
then work gets done and the org can get in income. TERMINAL-a point that
receives, relays and sends communication. If people present each wear any
old hat or all the hats, then no terminals exist, no communication can flow
properly, work can't get done and there is no income. There is chaos and it
is an unhappy place. In a green org staff members don't know what other
staff members do. So they don't know where to send things so they do them
themselves. Worse, they don't even know there is an org there. It is quite
pathetic. Like rookie troops or militia or a mob. Of course the place goes
broke. You can tell a good executive. He only hands out despatches and work
to the correct hats. A lousy executive hands the work to anyone handy,
regardless of title. He's in apathy and doesn't know there's an org there.
The whole theory of successful organization is to have posts that only do
specific things, to have sections and departments and divisions which
specialize, and to have people who only wear their own hats and know who is
wearing the other hats and send their work to them. A train crew has a
Conductor. He wears a Conductor's hat. It has an engineer. He wears the
engineer's hat. It has a fireman. He wears the fireman's hat. Where do you
think the train would get to if each of these three didn't know who were
the other two? The Conductor wearing the engineer's hat would mean no
fares. The fireman wearing the Conductor's hat would mean no steam. And the
engineer wearing the Conductor's hat would mean no train going anywhere. So
beware of wearing other hats than your own, or of being ignorant of what
other hats are being worn. For nobody will get anywhere and you'll find
yourself overworked, dismayed and unhappy. Each person to his own job and
damn the fellow who tries to give you things which aren't your hat and
doesn't know there's an org there. Realize that the basic theory of
organization is this: 1. SO LONG AS EACH KNOWS AND WEARS AND WORKS AT HIS
OWN HAT ONLY, THINGS WILL BE SMOOTH. 2. AND SO LONG AS EACH PERSON KNOWS
WHAT THE OTHER HATS AROUND HIM DO, HE CAN GIVE THEM THEIR WORK WHEN IT
COMES HIS WAY AND ALL WILL BE SUCCESSFUL AND SMOOTH. If you let somebody
steal your hat (do your work for you that you are supposed to do) that
person will soon have you in trouble or have your job so snarled it can't
be done. If you don't know who in the org is supposed to do what and make
them do their own jobs when those drift your way, you'll be overworked like
mad. If somebody tries to get you to do something that isn't your job on
the org board then FILE AN ETHICS CHIT FOR JOB ENDANGERMENT. For at the
very least that person is reducing income by not knowing the lines and
posts of the org. When you are assigned an additional duty, make sure it is
also properly in your department or division or you'll be messed up. Don't
permit people to mess up hats around you or you will be in chaos. Only
organization can make your job smooth. And wearing your hat and doing your
own job and knowing and making other people wear only theirs and do their
own job, is the total secret of organization.
L. RON HUBBARD
LRH:mh.rd Copyright c 1965 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 1 JANUARY 1968
Remimeo All Staff Hats
HAT WRITE-UPS AND FOLDERS INSPECTION OF HAT FOLDERS (Excerpts from HCO
Policy Letter of January 10th, 1958 and May 13th, 1964 rewritten, SECED 707
SH 385 WW 9 Aug 1966, SECED 100 LONDON 26 Jan 1959)
WRITE UP YOUR HAT. This applies to every staff member. A copy is
furnished the HCO Exec Sec WW. By "Hat" is meant your job title and duties.
It comes from Railway slang-the trainman wears one kind of hat, the
conductor another-thus "Hat" equals what your job is. A "Hat" is a
permanent folder, in your possession, which describes your duties on your
post in full and which contains policy letters which directly relate to
that post. The folder must be completely up to date. When writing up your
hat, put down your Division and Department number. (Find yourself on the
Org Board in the Comm Centre.) Then write down your post TITLE (i.e... Mail
Clerk, Cook, etc.). Then the PURPOSE of the post is to be given, followed
by the DUTIES of the post-to be numbered separately. This write-up is a
brief but complete account of your current duties, i.e., exactly what you
are doing on your post at the time, not what you are supposed to be doing
or hope to do. Write in the times things are done and where you work and
who your immediate senior is. KNOW YOUR HAT-MAKE SURE IT IS KEPT CURRENT.
You are responsible for seeing that it is kept up to date. Do not destroy
old hat material. Forward anything now obsolete in your hat to the Hats
Officer, HCO Div 1, Dept 1, for master filing. If you do not know what to
do with anything in your hat, send it to the Hats Officer, otherwise
valuable details of the organization may be lost. The Hats Officer may call
upon any staff member at any time to deliver up his hat folder, in person,
for immediate inspection. If the hat folder does not completely describe
the post it covers and the duties and procedure thereof, or if it is
incomplete, or if it is in gross error, the Hats Officer may notify the Dir
Income to debit the account of the person concerned to the amount of
�2.10.0 sterling;
10.00 U.S., or equivalent in other currencies. If the folder is
missing entirely, the fine shall be �6.0.0 sterling or
25.00 U.S. There is no limit to the number of times a folder may be
called for or the number of fines save only that only one fine may be
levied for each offence. Recentness of appointment shall be no excuse. The
Dir Income is authorized herewith to so debit a person's account on
notification from the Hats Officer. Any funds so derived shall be made part
of the Building Fund. Scientology Organizations are complicated structures.
The know-how is contained in its hats. The structure becomes unworkable
when posts and duties become lost.
Proposed by a Board of Investigation
Len Regenass Kevin Kember Halldora Sigurdson
Tony Dunleavy: Qual Sec WW Len Regenass: HCO Area Sec WW Eunice Ford:
HCO Exec Sec WW Tony Dunleavy: Org Exec Sec WW Ken Delderfield: LRH Comm WW
Joan McNocher: D/Guardian WW
Mary Sue Hubbard The Guardian WW for L. RON HUBBARD Founder
LRH:jp.rd Copyright c 1968 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 7 JANUARY 1966
Remimeo Staff Hat
URGENT
LEAVING POST WRITING YOUR HAT (A copy of this should be clipped to
every transfer order issued in an org but failure to do so does not relieve
the transferee of responsibility.)
On changing post, it is vital for the staff member (executive or
general) to write up his or her hat for the post being vacated. A copy is
furnished the HCO Exec Sec WW. A person is still considered to also be on
any post he is vacating until: (a) A new person is provided for the post.
(b) He or she has written up a complete hat giving the duties, lines and
peculiarities of the post. (c) Turned the hat over to the new staff member
and a copy to HCO Exec Sec WW. (d) Turned over all the equipment and
supplies of the post and gotten a receipt for them signed by the new person
on the post. (e) Sent a copy of the items in (d) to the Supply Officer. (f)
Settled the new person in the post so that it is operating. If these are
not done, an organization goes to pieces on expansion as it loses its lines
and terminals and functions through promotions. Staff members not doing the
above may be called upon as responsible for the actions, failures and
materiel of a post for up to 2 years after leaving it and his or her pay
may be debited for any losses or damages in the post vacated without
complying with the above even though the loss or damage was done by a
successor. Note that a person ordered to a new post is also responsible
(regardless of any other action by another to fill it) for seeing that the
post is competently filled before he is legally off it. This is of long
standing custom. None of this exempts Personnel or executives from filling
posts, writing hats or accounting for materiel or supplies. But the staff
member leaving a post has the greatest responsibility.
L. RON HUBBARD
LRH:ml.rd Copyright c 1966 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 7 NOVEMBER 1962
CenOCon Franchise Field RE-ISSUE SERIES (4)
CENTRAL ORGANIZATIONS EFFICIENCY (Re-issue of HCO Policy Letter of May
22, 1959)
One could say with bitterness that the only place some Central
Organizations show self-determinism is the HGC and then only on processes.
We are getting too big to refuse to make decisions locally. If we are going
to bring self-determinism back to man, we'd sure as the devil better
display it in ourselves and on our jobs. Once the basic purpose of a post
or department is known, only two things should then be necessary: 1. Self-
determined and responsible continuous creation of department and post, and
2. Holding the communication lines rigidly in place. No number of specific,
detailed orders can remedy anything if these two are not in existence.
Specific, microscopic orders on how the job is to be done is not only
impossible but defeats the purpose of posts. The unit depends utterly upon
each department and post acting causatively. The more problems that aren't
handled by the department or post receiving them, the more confusion
develops. It is my job to appoint or confirm people on posts, to map
general strategy, to provide written communication and keep myself
informed. If I am impeded in doing that job, we'll never make it. And
floods of requests for decisions which are well within the power of central
organizations to make defeats us in two ways: 1. It cuts my lines by
jamming them and 2. Denies us general leadership and materiel. When I
appoint or confirm a Scientologist on a post, I say "There, he'll handle
that area." I don't say "Now I've got some more nursing to do." If we are
to bring self-determinism to Man, we must be prepared to exhibit it
ourselves. Defining self-determinism as it applies to departments and
posts, is very easy-It is the willingness to decide and act in a causative
manner toward the traffic and functions of that post. When we have a person
on a post who is the total effect of that post, we have the post caving in
on him and the tendency to pull the organization in with it. Only when the
person on that post can assume positive and effective cause do we have
gains in dissemination, units, ARC and MEST. There are two ways of being a
total effect-just to fixate and act not at all, just to disperse and throw
everything off with resultant confusion to all. We must come to orderly
cause point on every post. We must, we must, we must. The full statement of
function of every post is necessary or we have duplication of effort which
we can't afford. But why beyond that do people demand decisions by others?
Information they need. Traffic they need. A rigid communication system and
exact lines they need, but decisions? How psycho can you get? Given
information and the purpose anybody can make a decision. Unless he's batty.
Right here and now I declare us to have become of an age to grow up. Here
we must decide, are we to have a Mussolini empire where only Rome could
decide? Or are we to have tightly run departments and posts, taking their
own causativeness over their functions and traffic. True, I'm pretty clever
about things. And I'm handy to have around. But I rebel at making slaves.
If I cannot teach you to stand on your own two feet on your post, I've
surely failed. You've got to be willing to be hanged for mistakes and not
tremble for fear of making them. Be right on a majority of decisions, and
don't be wrong on any important ones. But if you are you'll only be hanged.
How come your neck is so precious when mine isn't? Yes, it's important what
you decide. Yes, it's the survival of your area at stake if you're wrong.
But why be timid about it? The whole place will wither and die where you
are if you aren't causative. The man or girl on the post is the one who
puts life in it. We have attained now 1. Our technical know-how 2. Our
method of progress into the society-HAS Co-Audit 3. Our best form of
organization (6 departments). And we can only be stopped now by failure to
be causative, correct and decisive on our posts. We're playing for blood.
The stake is Earth. If we don't make it nobody will. We're the sole agency
in existence today that can forestall the erasure of all civilization or
bring a new better one. If we aren't willing to be hanged for our mistakes
we'll surely fry for them. So, let's get causative, each and every one.
L. RON HUBBARD
LRH:gl.rd Copyright c 1962 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 11 APRIL 1961
CenOCon
HOW TO DO A STAFF JOB
If you want a higher level of dissemination and a higher unit or
salary, the way to obtain them is simple. 1. Do your own job. 2. Insist
that the other staff member do his-but don't do it for him or her. Example
of error: HCO Sec is so busy being D of P or D of T, no hats or tech
bulletins get checked. Result: randomity. Assn Sec is so busy being Dir of
Accounts, no executive supervision and assistance occurs. D of P does so
much Admin, no technical results happen. Etc., etc. You can wear several
hats. The point is, do them, not other hats. Every time you do the other
fellow's job for him or her, you cover up a camouflaged hole. People who
are camouflaged holes make Dev T. The next thing you know you are
protecting the ineffective, have a large number on staff and get no work
done and get no unit. Let the ineffective either sink or get audited. Don't
protect them. Do your own jobs. Refuse to do the other fellow's. Make
ineffective staff members look like ineffectives by leaving the hole open,
not hidden. Don't hide bad work from executives. Your game is not to
protect the goofballs but to get a show on the road. So please do your own
job and do it well. Even if an executive asks you to do somebody else's job-
don't. Say, instead, "Am I transferred?" If the answer is no, tell him to
get lost. I'll back you up. Do your own jobs. What are they? And you'll see-
you'll have wider dissemination and higher income. Every hour you spend off
post doing somebody else's job is an hour lost off your lines. They catch
up with you. Only then could you become frantic, overworked, dispersed. So
please. Do your own job and let the other fellow reap the hurricane if he
doesn't do his. I do my own job. I have pretty exact hats. They are
Research, Writing, Dissemination, Goals, Justice and higher level
personnel. Every time a staff member goofs, it tends to roll on up and
knock my hats sideways. So please handle your own job. That way the world
will prosper and so will we.
L. RON HUBBARD
LRH:ph.rd Copyright c 1961 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 12 SEPTEMBER 1967
Remimeo Org Exec Course
POST, HANDLING OF
Handling your post contains an element which is easily overlooked but
without which you may have many troubles hard to trace. IN ESSENCE YOU ARE
WEARING MY ADMINISTRATIVE HAT FOR THAT POST. You may wear the hat letter
perfect and yet have a miss. As it is my hat really, no matter how small
the post is, it has to be worn as I would wear it. The air and attitude of
how it's worn is important. Many an HCO Sec in the old days successfully
got out of a tough problem by asking, "What would Ron do in this
situation?" And did it and all worked out. Therefore it is worthwhile to
know how I would go about things. I could detail for hours the admin
indicators and admin technology I use. But you've got the bulk of it
already in org policy letters. There are only a few things I might add that
would help. One is that I work exclusively on the "Greatest good for the
greatest number of dynamics." I believe that to command is to serve and
only gives one the right to serve. I have to be, above all things,
effective and cannot fall short of being effective or explain
ineffectiveness away. I never compromise with a situation to be agreeable.
In handling something I figure out if I want to play that game or not and
if I don't I won't. And if I don't I will do anything needful to disconnect
from it and if I do I will do anything I can to win it. There is at least
one, however, that is wildly out in many executives. And that is how I
handle other posts. My entire concentration is to put the person on a given
post that possibly can handle it and then let him or her get on with it.
The difference is this: others put a person on a post and then hammer and
pound him with orders as to how to handle it. If the appointee gets in
trouble, others give him streams of orders and directions. I don't. If a
person has been trusted with a post I also trust him to handle it. If he or
she obviously can't, I find another person who possibly can. I give a
person on a post a lot of chances. I know posts are hard to handle. But if
the statistic goes down and down and stays down, and no admin or tech
advice has been of any avail, I don't hammer away with streams of orders. I
just find another person. This I know is a greater plus and minus than
people easily tolerate. The plus is that I extend complete trust to an
appointee. The minus is that, if the stat is down and WON'T come up, I find
another person. There is no in between streams of directions or nagging.
Also, after a time, I grant that people can change and give a removed
person another chance. I don't consider they will be bad forever. When I
handle a situation that is bad I handle it according to the greatest good
for the majority of dynamics. Then, when it IS handled, I usually try to
pick up individuals who have had to be shot in the handling. I don't forget
them. You will see me handle situations ruthlessly and bring it all off and
then you may not see that I try afterwards to patch up whoever had to be
shot. People also try to teach me that it is useless to try to salvage a
gone dog, a low stat failure who had his chance. I refuse to learn it. I
still try. As time goes on I even love my enemies but after I have rendered
them powerless to stop us. I put a person on a job and let him or her get
on with it. I don't act unless it is obvious the roof is falling in. Then I
find somebody else who possibly can hold it. And also I patch up the fellow
I had to remove and some day give him another chance. Evidence of this is
all around. I don't try to force a job to be held by streams of detailed
instructions once failure is apparent. From the moment I see it isn't being
held to the moment I appoint somebody new I will myself act to hold the
post in any way I can, no matter how distant it is. But my attention is
really on finding a new person to appoint and when that's done I get off
the line and let him get on with it. It makes a far more forceful
organization to handle things this way and a far happier one in the long
run. A person always knows, with me, if his job is secure. If his stat is
up, it is. I'll not admonish or permit him to be pushed about. This may
seem to be a brutal way to go about things but remember this: We are a few
and we have an enormous area to salvage that long ago went down for the
third time. If we fail it is improbable the job will ever again be done as,
on evidence that the problem still exists, it has never before been solved
in all the past long ages. So we can't really take chances. Not with the
whole human race. So we do our jobs and see that our jobs are done. We have
a trust which, if we fail it, condemns ourselves, our friends, our future
to continued oblivion. So we mustn't fail. Or permit others to fail. And
that is how and why we ARE getting the job done.
L. RON HUBBARD Founder
LRH:jp.rd Copyright c 1967 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 22 FEBRUARY 1968
Remimeo
ETHICS AND ADMIN SLOW ADMIN
The secret of any executive success is the ability to Complete Cycles
of Action Quickly. The operative word is COMPLETE. Ability is the ability
to complete a cycle of action, to handle the matter so it does not have to
be handled again. Referral is irresponsibility. Executives who refer to
others to make a decision aren't executives. They are irresponsible or are
afraid of responsibility. People who are afraid of taking responsibility
are not executives. They are labourers. An executive who doesn't handle but
puts something on wait is also irresponsible. Slowing an admin line by not
acting NOW is also suppressive. Suppressives cannot complete cycles of
action. They either act in an altered direction or they continue an action
beyond any possible expectancy. In either case they do not COMPLETE.
THEREFORE this ethics policy is brought into being: EXECUTIVES WHO DO NOT
HANDLE MATTERS SO AS TO COMPLETE THEM, WHO REFER OR SLOW ADMIN ARE LIABLE
TO A COMM EV ON A CHARGE OF OUT ADMIN.
L. RON HUBBARD Founder
LRH:jc.rd Copyright c 1968 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 4 MAY 1968 Remimeo HANDLING SITUATIONS The only
tremendous error an organization makes, next to inspection before the fact,
is failing to terminatedly handle situations rapidly. When I say
terminatedly handle I mean finishedly handle. That it is handled and
that'sail, boy! The fault of an organization's woffle, woffle, woffle, Joe
won't take responsibility for it, It's got to go some place else, and all
that sort of thing, is that it continues a situation. It just goes on and
on and on until it finally gets somewhere, goes snap, and that would be the
end of that situation. So what you ought to do is complete action now, in
the first place. The other day I was looking at why I used to have a high
stat businesswise and cinewise and otherwise, and I suddenly realized I was
peculiar in the vicinity in which I operated. I ended cycles, I could end
more cycles in less time than any organization could dream up. In other
words I was concluding actions. Ending cycles doesn't consist of shooting
people. It consists of seeing that it stays handled. One of the things that
has happened in the past is that I have had to rehandle. Situations I had
handled became unhandled some place and I had to rehandle them again. What
you should specialize in is terminating the end of a situation, not refer
it to somebody else. If the situation comes up in your vicinity well,
handle it-that is finish it off so that is the end of it. Somebody comes
along saying (natter, natter, natter). I've caught too many of these guys.
Finally I handle the situation, if it hadn't been handled up to that point.
He hadn't been handled up to that point. When you have got this guy, handle
him. Handle him, so that the fellow is handled from here on to the end of
time. Don't try to patch it up so that it won't cause any trouble. You have
to be on the ball to do this, very much on the ball. An example was a
dissatisfied steward. The guy was going around serving up spanners in the
soup. He's going around, and he's going around and he's going around. Well,
let's handle it right there, now, when he wants the situation handled. The
guy appears for his pay and that's it! Do you get the idea. It's finished
right now. Please quit continuing situations by reference. Handle! You can
develop more traffic internally, more upsets, more ARC breaks, than
anything you can mention by simply continuing to shunt the responsibility
for ending the cycle of action. That is all it is, just a refusal to take
responsibility for ending a cycle of action. Somebody comes over to the
Registrar to sign up. Does she have to refer to eight different terminals
as to whether or not this person is permitted to sign up? No. She either
signs the guy up or she doesn't sign the guy up. Take responsibility for
the various cycles of action. When you have taken responsibility for them,
let's hear no more about them any place.
L. RON HUBBARD Founder
LRH:jc.rd Copyright c 1968 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 16 APRIL AD 15 Issue III
Gen Non Remimeo
ALL DIVISIONS
HANDLING THE PUBLIC INDIVIDUAL
We have learned the hard way that an individual from the public must
never be asked to DECIDE or CHOOSE. Examining experiences we have had, I
finally saw there was a hidden datum we had not been aware of in our orgs
and particularly in handling the public. I finally dug it up and here it
is: TO DECIDE ONE HAS TO UNDERSTAND. Examining our big org chart you can
see quite plainly that Understanding is higher than the point of public
entrance into processing. Example: Mr. J is offered Particle A. He can
accept it just because it is offered. He does not have to even perceive it
or talk about it or recognize any condition. He needs to see only two
things-(a) That it is being offered by somebody or something (source), and
(b) that Particle A exists. All you have to do is show him where to obtain
it and that it exists. This is acceptance without decision. Therefore he
can have it. Example: Mr. J is offered Particle A or Particle B. Now we
have an entirely different situation. Mr. J must compare Particle A and
Particle B in order to see which is best. Therefore he must see where each
comes from (source), that each exists, establish the condition of each
particle, communicate with and about them, perceive them, relate them to
each other (become oriented), understand them, be enlightened and finally
decide (establish own purpose). If he can do this Mr. J can choose which he
should have, A or B. If Mr. J can't do all these things, Mr. J is
overwhelmed, gets confused and takes neither. One has asked Mr. J to jump
up a lot of levels. Actually the ordinary Mr. J, when raw meat and even not
so raw, would have to have a Grade IX Certificate to obtain a Grade I
Certificate. And that of course is impossible. The door, then, is barred
utterly for the majority of people into any department or function or org,
let alone the promotion and accounts functions. The moral is very plain.
Never ask anyone in the public or field to Decide or Choose. Erase from our
org patter "Which do you want, Mr. J?" Don't ask which course, or what pin
or what book or which auditor or what door or what time he or she wants to
start anything or which door or which road or which membership. Cultivate
totally on a staff a didactic but pleasant approach. "Your intensive
starts________." "This is your next book________." "Your next course should
be taken on________." "Go to the third door." "I see you're a pc. You go up
to the second floor ________. " Erase even the banal "What do you wish?" or
"What can I do for you?" as even that throws confusion into it. Example:
Miss N has heard of processing. She wants some. She never did decide to
want some. She just wants some. Now to ask her to decide anything about it
blunts that purpose. It is a thin purpose. It quivers. Don't ask her does
she want a book or want training or want a pin or want anything else. Say
only "Ah. You want processing. That is a good thing to want. Be here on
Monday and bring funds." That's all. For heaven's sakes don't sell her
processing or books or alternate schedules or ask her if she can pay or
anything. That want is frail at best. Don't crush it! // she says timidly,
"I only have________ funds," say, "Good. Bring them, you can owe the rest.
Be here on Monday." In short MAKE Miss N RIGHT for WANTING, thus
intensifying the want. Make her RIGHT when she talks about money. Then,
being right, she can come in Monday. Simple. Chances are, even if she
works, she'll still come in. When she comes in she says, "I'm Miss N. I'm
here for my processing." Reception MUST say, "Ah. You're Miss N. Good.
There's the Accounts window. Sign up there." The Accounts says, "Here's the
slip. Sign here. Take the slip to Room ________." Reception says, "This way
Miss N." Estimations says, "Let me have your Accounts receipt. Good. That's
fine. Have you been processed before? No? Well, you soon will be. This way
please. Your auditor is waiting." The Auditor says, "Over here, please."
Adjusts the pc's chair, etc, and sits down and says, "Start of Session." At
its end he says, "Be in this room at ________" for Miss N's next. And so
on. When she gets her Grade Certificate she's told, "That means you're a
Grade I preclear. Get the book ________ down in reception. It will tell you
all about Grade II." Miss N throughout is never anything but 8c'd. The
general promotion told her what to want by saying she could have it. She
expresses the want. The org people say, "That's a good thing to want. You
can have it." And give it to her. That's all. Just as you'd never ask a pc
which command he wanted, you never ask the public individual to decide. You
can teach them anything, particularly the truth. But never ask them to
decide. By processing up through the grades this person will soon begin to
see and be there and understand and decide. And she'll surely decide she's
a Scientologist as it's true all the way!
_________________
This is new Admin tech. You will see us knocking out now all requests
to choose in all promotion and in all routing of the public in an org. If
we do so we will succeed beautifully.
_________________
THE FUNDAMENTAL There is an even deeper fundamental at work here. It
is quite startling. You cannot get a flow without agreement. Examine your
ARC triangle and you'll see why. This is why an org won't flow traffic when
Policy is out or not formed. That's why any policy, agreed upon, is better
than points of individual decision on flow lines. It's not that people
can't decide in orgs. They can. But when a staff member makes an individual
decision not laid out by policy, the flow stops. Thus all flow and traffic
lines including people and money and despatches will flow smoothly and
rapidly only so long as the decisions that can be made are also part of
policy and are simple decisions. THE RAPIDITY OF PARTICLE FLOW ALONE
DETERMINES POWER. Thus an org's strength and its sphere of influence and
domain are all regulated by the speed of flow, both inside and outside an
org! And an org particle inside or outside an org (promotion, books,
people, money) flows as fast as it's free of independent, unagreed-upon
decision points. Example: A flow line can go to A or B. Unless policy says
"If it's above 80 it goes to A. If it's below 80 it goes to B," then that
particle becomes the subject of a decision that is not covered by policy
and the flow stops. You can have a lot of choices on a Comm line or traffic
line but none may be random choices made by an individual at that moment.
The flow will stop, not because the decision is wrong but because the next
point on the flow doesn't know what it really is and so can't handle it
except slowly or by stopping it at least to think it over. An org full of
individual decision points not covered by group understanding is no org at
all and will fail. It is a bunch of individuals working at cross purposes-
each person okay, but the combined strength of the "org" is only that of
one person in a state of confusion! When the public is also being asked to
decide about coming into an org full of individual decision points you get
a total collapse. The new Org Board overcomes all this. It has the choices
laid out by policy and org form and formula. So it can grow, will be easy
to work in and will remain a happy place unless somebody puts in some new
decision points not on the chart. The result will be stopped flows, no
traffic, no money, no org. Never put in an "Individual random decision
point" on a chart! That's the moral. Then all staff can look over and see
easily on what's decided where. A multiple decision point can work
providing only that all the decisions to be made are already known to all.
Take a Communicator. She has to make many "decisions" that are known in
advance. Which basket does what dispatch go into? That's an easy multiple
"decision" providing the Org Board is easy to read and staff understands it
and is doing the jobs for which they are posted. The line stops when the
posts cross or aren't being handled, or at an "individual decision point"
not then easily knowable to the staff. This was the main problem in working
out the 1965 Org Board. For the first time even my own post was being
clarified by the need for knowable decision. Every post on the Board is
like that. And it was all worked out. It could not have been worked out at
all unless I had found some of the most fundamental formulas of this
Universe. The type of pattern used kept one org going for 80 trillion
years, believe it or not. And to that were added some very basic laws that
had been overlooked by that outfit and which caused its eventual decay. It
couldn't correct itself! We aren't actually radically changed by the Org
Board as all our own customs are functional on it also. But it will flow
and prosper as long as the decisions to be made are known already. Example:
A bill disputed decision = deposit sum in Reserved Payment Account and get
the bill straight then pay right amount. Example: Policy says Blue
Students. They seem to be aquamarine coloured not blue. Report it to the
Inspection and Reports Dept with all data. Inspection and Reports inspects
and reports to the Office of LRH and policy is adjusted everywhere. Now we
can handle aquamarine coloured students-or see that the Office of
Estimations is forbidden to wear sun-glasses while estimating! And while
the policy is under adjustment we stick by known policy until adjusted.
Frankly, the 1965 Org Board pattern, as posted, gives all the routing hats
and therefore the "decisions" are already visible. If a flow stacks up or a
basket fills, or trouble occurs, we have an overload or an absence or an
injected "individual decision point". Far from robbing anyone of self
determinism, the 1965 board is welcomed by sighs of relief. Even I was glad
to get my own work onto it. The whole room went bright when I cognited
"Gee, this is what everyone is trying to do to me; make me an individual
decision point!" One puts one's baskets and one's "hands" into the lines
and acts on the lines. One doesn't put his decisions on the lines as the
lines then hit him! A postulate or a decision is too close to a thetan's
identity! It confuses him and makes him feel hit personally by the
Communications when he has to newly decide on each one. If the decision is
already there, A or B, he can then route with his "hands", not with
himself. If he is always newly and randomly deciding he gets carried
eventually on down the comm line himself and goes off post! A thetan can
handle a vast volume of action so long as he doesn't have to make a strange
or fresh decision in each act. We can tell in orgs who is making fresh
individual decisions as that person has to bring each of his own dispatches
in personally. (We call it, "bringing a body".) He routes himself too! Only
a Communication runner who is involved only with who and where can do this
safely as her decisions are known beforehand. Thus she can move on lines
with impunity. Note that she only stops when she has to figure out who has
now gone where and why she was not informed! Otherwise a Communications
runner could go through fire and war with impunity without a pause so long
as the who and where are known. Thus an investigation's personnel cannot
also be a communications personnel without going half mad! But an
investigation's personnel with her set of "who to look for and where" can
move swiftly too! They (the communications personnel and the investigations
personnel) have entirely different previously known decisions to make. Both
are who, wheres. But the comm who, where is the comm station of a known
person. And the investigation who, where is composed of types of whos and
reported wheres. The purposes are different. The comm personnel sees to
whom and where and delivers. The investigation personnel sees what and
finds out whom and where and reports. Other staff must know what decisions
these two will make. Other staff sees a jam of traffic and will feel
comfortable if a Communicator predictably sends an expediter to help clear
the jam. Also, seeing a confused area, other staff will feel all right
about it if an investigator pops up and finds out what and whom and reports
it accurately for a predictable decision. Thus a staff trained in the
pattern of decisions that will be taken by the various departments only
complains when somebody green puts somebody else's traffic on their lines
or leaps in investigating the maintenance men when it's a bulldog a pc
brought to session that's howling. Things get predictable. One sees a pile
of traffic growing, one knows an expediter will show up. One sees a student
blowing, one knows an investigator will show up. One can live in a
predictable environment. One gets nervy only in the presence of
unpredictable decisions. Want to know why wog courts make people nervy? Who
can predict a wog court decision? Who can even predict the sentence man to
man for the same crime? It's not knowing that makes men stupid. Part of
knowing is "In a given situation what should be decided?" Only a new
knowledge of universal laws has made it possible to make, such an org
pattern, for its decisions are then basic in every person and the universe
in which we live. We need only avoid bank dramatizations to own the lot.
L. RON HUBBARD
LRH:jw.rd Copyright c 1965 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
[Note: The above Policy Letter was reissued on 13 October 1970 without
change. A revision was issued on 15 December 1972 deleting the first page
and a half. This revision should be studied in conjunction with Policy
Letters on sales closing techniques which appear in the 1972 and 1973 Year
Books.] HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 17 NOVEMBER 1965
Remimeo Dissem Sec HCO Exec Sec Dir of Promotion Promotion Staff
THE BASIC PRINCIPLES OF PROMOTION
The following points are a summary of the basic principles of
promotion. It is important that you understand them and apply them in your
promotion. 1. The basic principle of promotion is to drive in more business
than can be driven off by a service unit or mistakes can waste. This
applies to any promotion anywhere. Never allow your standard of how many
people should be brought into the org to be set by any other division or
part of the organization. Promote as far above as possible the present
operating capacity of the organization and you will win. From this it
follows that Tech or any other part of the Org can never tell the
Dissemination Division when or how many customers to bring in or that "we
can only handle 10 preclears this week". It is the job of promotion to
drive in as many preclears as possible. It's up to Tech to find the space
and the auditors. In other words, promotion must be so huge and effective
so that even if other divisions are blocking the line or driving people off
so many people are being crowded into the org by promotion that it makes up
for any waste done by other parts of the org. You get the idea. It's not
flattering but it is the stable datum that successful promotion anywhere
operates on. By the way, the error does not necessarily have to be within
the org. A bus strike could temporarily prevent people from across town
being able to start the HRS Course. Promotion should have promoted so much
the Course is still full despite such an error. The motto of promotion
could be "we shall overcome-by numbers"..... "Despite any errors we bring
in so many people into the org continually or sell so many books that even
if the body registrar drives them off at gun point enough will get through
to keep the statistics rising." 2. If a promotional programme does not seem
to work find out where it is not being applied-don't Q and A and abandon
the programme. Spot instead the non-compliance which is preventing it from
going into operation. 3. Later promotional programmes will not work if
earlier ones have not been executed..Example: the programme is to send out
fliers to sell bla bla to all buyers of foo-foo's. But it turns out that
the original programme to compile a list of the buyers of foo-foo's off old
invoices was not done therefore a flier to sell bla bla can't be sent to
buyers of foo-foo's. And since the invoices were burnt up by some long gone
suppressive (let's say) the original programme can't be carried out. What
to do? Don't give up or abandon the programme of selling bla bla to buyers
of foo-foo's. Get clever and dream up some other way of compiling the list
you want. Maybe it's as simple as a notice in your local newspaper or a
questionnaire to everyone in your files: "Did you ever buy foo-foo's?"
SUMMARY Having a successful promotional programme consists of getting
it executed. If it seems to not be working, spot where it isn't being done.
The non-execution could be years earlier in a former programme which was
not executed. We have had lots of workable programmes in Scientology. It
takes no cleverness to dig them up and use them. There is no need to embark
on new programmes until the earlier programmes are completed. Let's take
the Franchise programme as an example. The original order given to an ex-
Franchise Sec years ago was to get all Franchise holders trained at Saint
Hill. Years later we find that that order has only been partially carried
out. The Franchise programme bogged down at exactly that point. Now, the
whole matter is being handled by getting the current Franchise Officer to
carry out the original order. The cleverness required in promotion is not
starting a new programme or carrying out a programme. But cleverness is
required in getting an old programme executed when the means to get it
executed no longer exist; such as when a mailing list has been lost and you
need to devise a means of re-compiling the list. Finally, promote until the
floors cave in because of the number of people-and don't even take notice
of that, just keep promoting.
L. RON HUBBARD
LRH:neg.rd Copyright c 1965 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 20 NOVEMBER 1965
Remimeo All Staff Hats
All Divisions Qual Div Hat Check on all Staff
THE PROMOTIONAL ACTIONS OF AN ORGANIZATION (Contains 129 Actions that
ensure solvency and are vital in an org)
When one hears that an Org or a Division, a Department or Section or
Person has been ordered to promote, the question can be asked "What does
this mean?" Some suppose it means get an incredibly brilliant new idea that
has never been done before. Another thinks it means hiring an ad agency.
Somebody else may think it means telling lies or working confidence tricks.
It is none of these things. Only in emergency promotion does one need new
ideas and these most often consist of how to accomplish a long neglected
action in some other department one doesn't have control over. The
brilliance required here is how to get your part done anyway. PROMOTION
means, to make something known and thought well of. In our activities it
means to send something out that will cause people to respond either in
person or by their written order or reply to the end of applying
Scientology service to or through the person or selling Scientology
Commodities, all to the benefit of the person and the solvency of the org.
Now do you see that a staff member smiling is sending something out that
will make someone respond and think better of the staff member and the org.
That comes under the definition of Promotion. A janitor making the steps
clean is presenting something (the view of clean steps) that will make both
himself and the org a bit better thought of. A mail clerk doing up a neat
package is sending something out that will make the org well thought of. Do
you see? So any action that makes the staff member of the org visible and
well thought of is promotion. Furthermore any job in the org well done
makes it possible for others to promote but not done makes it very hard to
promote or makes it impossible altogether. Every task in the org
contributes to promotion. And without promotion there is no job. There are,
however, very standard promotional actions which we concentrate on in an
org. ROUTINE PROMOTION Through the years orgs have developed various
standard promotional actions which invariably achieve results if done.
Today these actions are woven into the standard organizational pattern as
administrative activities. If an org follows the organizational pattern and
does what the hats say, then it will be promoting with no further strain.
The promotion ideas and patterns as they now exist are never at fault. Only
failing to do them is at fault. Promotion only fails because of non-
execution. Without promotion one has insolvency. Promotion without adequate
delivery of service or commodity will eventually fail to deliver income.
THE PROMOTION ACTIONS The Standard Promotion Actions of an Org, by Division
and Department are: (Note: There are other actions in these portions of the
org. These are only the Promotional Actions.) 1. HCO AREA SECRETARY - Co-
ordinates and gets done the promotional functions of Division 1. 2.
DEPARTMENT 1 (Dept of Routing, Appearances and Personnel) sees that the org
has a good clean appearance. 3. Sees that personnel are properly dressed,
well-conducted and give the org a good tone. 4. Requires Reception to make
known free introductory lectures to all callers. 5. Has books on display at
Reception. 6. Keeps staff from collecting in Reception Centre and talking
Scientology before callers. 7. Controls public notice boards of the org and
makes sure they also feature org services available. 8. Routes people
swiftly and accurately to the required services. 9. DEPARTMENT 2 (Dept of
Communications) - Keeps a complete Address File in such shape that mailings
are wide and sent to people who will respond. Never lets go of an address
or a mailing list and keeps them all properly corrected and up to date and
in proper categories for ready use. 10. Sees that mailings go out promptly
and on schedule. 11. Sees that internal despatches are swiftly delivered
and are in accurate form. 12. Sees that letters and orders arrive safely
and are quickly handled and not overlooked. 13. Oversees stationery and
typing quality so that communications going outside the org look smart and
sound bright. 14. DEPARTMENT 3 (Dept of Inspection and Reports) - Sees that
the org is there and functioning. 15. Sees that Suppressives and
enturbulative elements do not block dissemination. 16. Sees that service is
accurately given and that no squirrel tech is used. 17. Prevents the
phenomenon of no-case-gain by spotting Potential Trouble Sources and
handling. 17 a. Ethics gets case resurgences by finding the right SPs. 18.
HCO DISSEMINATION SECRETARY - Co-ordinates and gets done the promotional
functions of Division 2 and makes the org and services known to
Scientologists. 19. DEPARTMENT 4 (Dept of Promotion) - Issues magazines on
schedule. 20. Properly presents services in ads in org magazines and
mailings. 21. Does promotional pieces for Publications Dept. 22. Executes
planned promotions as laid down in Sec Eds. 23. Compiles promotional pieces
and programmes for issue to Scientologists. 24. Sees that the files,
addresses and requirements of persons interested in Scientology are used to
the full. 25. DEPARTMENT 5 (Dept of Publications) - Sees that good
quantities of books are in stock. 26. Sees that books and mimeos look well
when completed. 27. Ships swiftly on receipt of orders. 28. Issues the
technical and policy materials of the org to get in Pol and Tech. 29. Gets
promotional pieces printed. 30. Gets pins and insignia in stock and ensures
broad issue so they will appear in the world and thus disseminate. 31. Sees
that book fliers (handbills) are shipped out regularly to Scientologists
and book buyers. 32. Sees that tapes are available and that presentation of
them is of good tone quality. 33. Sees that any cine material is available
and ready for broad use. 34. DEPARTMENT 6 (Dept of Registration) - Letter
Registrar works to accumulate questionnaires and mail from those responding
to promotion. Follows exact policy and gets out floods of mail to all
possible proper candidates for service. 35. Keeps Central Files right up
and in excellent shape and adds all new names of buyers of books and
services. 36. Uses Central Files to the limit to produce business and
routes everyone in it individually in accordance with the routing sheet on
the back page of Auditor 10, by employing Gradation Charts and sending them
out marked and devising other means of utilizing CF to produce business.
37. Sends out questionnaires with all offers which detect people's plans
for training and processing. 38. Accepts Advance Registration and
encourages more advance registration until her months ahead are scheduled
full of students and pcs. 39. Does Phone Registration in City areas in
addition to other registration actions such as Letter Registrar. 40.
Registers everyone who comes in for service as pleasantly as possible with
due regard for the solvency of the org. 41. ORGANIZATION SECRETARY - Co-
ordinates and gets done the promotional functions of Division 3. 42.
DEPARTMENT 7 (Dept of Income) - Persuades payment of cash or increase in
purchase whenever possible. 43 a. Collects outstanding notes by monthly
statements. 43 b. Collects outstanding notes through Field Staff Members
via Dept 17. 44. Gets all mail orders invoiced and/or collected so they can
be shipped at once. 45. DEPARTMENT 8 (Dept of Disbursement) - Keeps bills
paid in such a way that the org is in excellent credit repute. (Promotes
with good credit rating.) 46. Gets salaries accurately and punctually paid
to keep staff happy. 47. DEPARTMENT 9 (Dept of Records, Assets and
Materiel) - Gets proper quarters to make the org look good, whether for
momentary or permanent use for all divisions. 48. Keeps materiel of org
bright. 49. Acquires reserves to give a reputation of stability to org. 50.
Keeps staff clothing issued and in good order (in those orgs providing
uniforms). 51. TECHNICAL SECRETARY - Co-ordinates and gets done the
promotional functions of Division 4. 52. DEPARTMENT 10 (Dept of Tech
Services) - Makes the customers happy and glad to be there. 53. Gives brisk
service. 54. Acquires for the ore a reputation for swift and excellent
handling of people. 55. DEPARTMENT 11 (Dept of Training) - Gives excellent
training. (The soundest possible promotion quickly mirrored in numbers
enrolling.) 56. Routes dissidents quickly to Ethics and slows to Review.
57. Briskly arid punctually schedules classes. 58. Accomplishes lots of
completions. 59. Turns out very competent auditors whose excellence
promotes the Academy (or College at SH) and Scientology. 60. Writes letters
to possible prospective students to get the Academy (or College at SH)
full. (This is an old, old activity of the D of T who never depends on
Registrars or magazines.) 61. Makes sure the excellence of training that is
there is bragged about in magazines, etc. 62. Gets students (Free
Scientology Centre) to find new, raw meat pcs of their own around the town
and audit them for student classification and gets them to bring such pcs
in for Release examinations and declarations (during which they get routed
through Registrar who presents the award) and refuses any for
classification in cases already known to be a paying pc of some org or
auditor. 63. DEPARTMENT 12 (Dept of Processing) - Gets excellent results on
all pcs. 64. Becomes well known for standard tech. 65. Spots SPs and PTSs
early and routes to Ethics. Routes bogged cases quickly to Review. 66.
Takes responsibility for all cases in the whole area where the org is. 67.
Makes auditors look and act professionally outside the HGC so people will
have confidence in them. 68. Insists on clean, attractive HGC quarters and
helps Materiel to achieve and maintain them. 69. Gets pcs in such good
shape they are walking advertisements for the HGC and Scientology. 70.
Writes letters to possible pcs (the D of P has had this duty for 15 years).
71. [Deleted per P/Ls 15 Dec '65 and 4 Feb '66. Now appears as 85a.] 72.
QUALIFICATIONS SECRETARY - Co-ordinates and gets done the pro - motional
functions of Division 5. 73. DEPARTMENT 13 (Dept of Examinations) - Makes
sure no untrained student or unsolved case gets past. 74. Finds the real
errors in any failures (no student or pc ever gets upsei if the actual
error is spotted-they only get upset when a wrong error is found). 75.
Refuses to get so concentrated on "validating people" that errors are
overlooked for this backfires also. 76. Routes those passed quickly to
Certs and Awards and those failed quickly to Review and routes any Ethics
matters discovered promptly to Ethics. 77. DEPARTMENT 14 (Dept of Review) -
Quickly repairs any flat ball bearings turned out by the Tech Division so
they will be no discredit to org. 78. Gives brilliant standard isolation of
any errors in students or pcs-discovers them with ease. 79. Repairs
thoroughly. 80. Makes a continual effort to get failed cases in the field
or ARC Broken Scientologists in for a Review. 81. Sends to Ethics all
Ethics matters discovered. Cultivates an aura of effortless competence.
81a.Review makes the dissatisfied satisfied with the Org by remedying all
tech misses. 82. DEPARTMENT 15 (Dept of Certs and Awards) - Issues
credentials that will be seen around-pins that people will wear,
certificates they will hang up, cards they will show. 83. Never issues
anything falsely as it will be hidden or discredited. 84. Issues literature
to all new releases and other completions that tells them what they have
attained and what next to do and encourages them to do it. 85. Heavily
promotes auditors outside the org to bring in their pcs for examination and
Release declarations. 85a.Pushes along the Free Membership programme and
makes sure Accounts sends a bill for the next year's Membership the moment
the six months expires AND IS ITS STATISTIC. 86. DISTRIBUTION SECRETARY -
Co-ordinates and gets done the divisional promotion functions of Division 6
and makes Scientology and the org known to the broad public. 87. DEPARTMENT
16 (Dept of Field Activities) - Advertises to the broad public. 88.
Advertises and holds Congresses, Open Evenings, etc. 89. Sees that the
Introductory lecture and non-classed courses use no words that will be
misunderstood and make people want to buy training and processing and
offers it. 90. Furnishes lecturers to groups. 91. Gets books placed in book
stores reviewed and in the public view. 92. Acquires new mailing lists. 93.
Sends out excellent info packets. 94. Guides in new body traffic. 95. Works
on the public not on the Scientologists already known to Divisions 1 and 2.
96. DEPARTMENT 17 (Dept of Clearing) - Recruits and handles Field Staff
Members to get in pcs and students for the org (and collect past debts).
97. Keeps in touch with Franchise Holders and keeps them informed. 98.
Carries out all FSM and Franchise activities and makes them head people
toward the org. 99. Treats the whole departmental activity as salesmen are
handled by any other business org. 100.Trains the FSMs and Franchise
Holders and makes them financially successful. 101.Gets all commissions
owed promptly paid to encourage earning more commissions. 102.Gives FSMs
and Franchise Holders things they can use to disseminate and select.
103.Advertises and conducts an Extension Course. 104.Invites Scientologists
to ask that Info Packets be sent to friends anct relatives. 105.Finds and
encourages the formation of Scientology Groups and Registers them and
offers certificates. 106.Sends out mailings to Groups. 107.Registers
Franchise Centre names. 108.DEPARTMENT 18 (Dept of Success) - Contacts by
letter all ex-pcs and students of the org. They should be written to at
widening intervals after leaving org. 109.Collects by letters or verbally
successful applications of Scientology. 110.Issues stories of successful
application. 111.Handles press. 112.Makes Scientology popular or the thing
to do. 113.Sells Scientology to governments and broad social stratas.
114.Issues projects of application to advanced Scientologists, particularly
those projects involving artists or public figures. 115.Acknowledges the
activities of Scientologists busy out in the world. 116.Appoints Committees
of Scientologists in various areas and groups to advise on improvements of
the civilization. 117.Encourages broad public (lay) memberships. 118.Gets
spectacular wins posted on the Org's public notice boards. 119.Condenses
wins into data of interest for mags and as handouts. 120.Makes a Catalogue
of successes with various processings on various conditions. 121.Encourages
and publicizes various applications of Scientology. 122.LRH COMMUNICATOR -
Sees that Executive communications fly and look well and that promotional
Sec Eds are followed. 123.DEPARTMENT 19 (Office of the Org Exec Sec) -
Oversees and gets execution on all promotional actions and functions in his
or her four divisions. 124.DEPARTMENT 20 (Office of the HCO Exec Sec) -
Oversees and gets execution on all promotional activities in his or her 2
HCO Divisions and the Executive Division. 125.DEPARTMENT 21 (Office of
LRH) - The Advisory Council closely watches gross divisional statistics and
quickly acts to handle any division of low gross divisional statistic. Acts
to get into action all dropped or neglected standard promotions. 126.The
Advisory Council develops new ways of making old promotion as inherent in
the org (detailed above) more effective and better executed. It never
neglects old standard promotion to too strongly concentrate on new
promotion. 127.Primarily it handles Secretaries and acts through
Secretaries of divisions to get all the promotion actions done. 128.As
Financial Planning sees that pricing of everything sold is not too high to
discourage the public and not too low to make the org insolvent. These are
the standard promotional actions of a Scientology organization. Any org not
in a high state of solvency and activity has omitted some or a majority of
the above. It is almost impossible to fail to succeed if one just does the
listed actions. There is a great deal of busyness connected with them. But
they are essentially simple actions. Most of us have been doing them for
years. If there is any mystery felt about them, then one either hasn't read
his policy letters or is in disagreement with promoting at all. Actually it
is too simple. I am often amazed when people want me to write tens of
thousands of words to describe these actions. The thing to do is do them.
Then one quickly gets the "hang" of them. And they are easy. As usually one
at staff level is concerned with only one or two of these they are very
easy to learn all about and do. The thing to know is (a) they exist, (b)
they are essential actions and (c) their details must be done for them to
succeed. _________________ I have made no attempt here to review the org or
old promotions. All I've done is write what I would expect to have
happening in any org or division of any org if I wanted a successful org.
I've listed things which, if missing, would cave in a Division or the HCO
or Org portions. A far more thorough analysis could be done. This is only a
list of the essential actions. If less than these are done one will have
poverty not prosperity. If one can't get them done in an org, then there is
something awfully wrong. _________________ When a staff member is in a part
of the org that is in emergency or danger, he, not being a high executive,
often feels he can do nothing. This is foolish. Solvency is not made by
high executives. It is made by doing one's own job. Every action in every
department is linked with promotion. To get out of emergency or danger one
must first promote. That means, do the action that promotes in one's
department or section or unit. Solvency and org wins are made up of the
small actions of the staff all added together. Read again how promotion is
defined. Read what is the promotional action of your immediate zone in your
org. Ask yourself if you are giving it all you can. Then maybe you will
understand whether you should be solvent or insolvent. There is no other
magic about it. The one fatal error in promotion is to get so involved in
worrying over things not your zone of promotion that you do not thoroughly
execute your own role in promotion. The most successful course of action
you can follow is to do your part of the promotion in your own zone and do
it so well it makes up for any shortcomings that might happen elsewhere in
the org. Always promote more than can be wasted. And also promote as a
person and staff member. Even if you may not be an auditor, you never know
what your smile, your helpfulness and your quick attention to another's
confusion or difficulty might have cured, Your actions and presence are
meaningful and valuable too, you know.
L. RON HUBBARD
LRH:ml.rd Copyright c 1965 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Note:
Promotional Action 122 in HCO Policy Letter 20 November 1965 is cancelled
and in its place is: 122.LRH COMMUNICATOR - Sees that Ron's postulates
stick! Sees that his comms fly, look well and that Ron's (not EC's) EDs are
complied with. (HCO Policy Letter 22 May 1968, Issue II) [Note: Deletion of
Promotional Action 71 and addition of 17a, 81 a and 85a have been done per
HCO Policy Letters 15 December 1965 and 4 February 1966.] [Note:
Considerable evolution has occurred since 1965, and this Policy Letter
should be studied in conjunction with its revision of 15 April 1973, in the
1973 Year Book.] HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 23 MAY 1969 Issue III
Remimeo All Public Div Hats
PUBLIC DIVISIONS PROMOTIONAL ACTIONS (Addition to HCO PL 20 Nov '65
Promotional Actions of an Organization)
86. PUBLIC PLANNING SECRETARY: Co-ordinates and gets done the
Divisional promotional functions of Division 6 and makes Scientology and
the Org known to the broad public. 87. DEPARTMENT 16 (DEPT OF PUBLIC
RESEARCH AND REPORTS): Discovers the Ethnic values of the local area. 88.
Sees that Ethnic data is correctly evaluated for assimilation and adaption.
89. Makes sure Ethnic data is provided for use in Rehabilitation and
Promotion Programmes. 90. DEPARTMENT 17 (DEPT OF PUBLIC REHABILITATION):
Sells Scientolo - gy to Governments and broad social stratas. 91. Works on
the public not on Scientologists already known to Divisions 1 and 2. 92.
Makes Scientology popular and the thing to do. 93. Uses the media of Press,
TV, Radio. 94. Issues projects of application to advanced Scientologists,
particularly those projects involving artists or public figures. 95.
Appoints committees of Scientologists in various areas and groups to advise
on improvements of a civilization. 96. DEPARTMENT 18 (DEPT OF PUBLIC
PROMOTION): Advertises to the broad public using what is acceptable and
valuable (Ethnic values). 97. Produces promotional material for Press
Releases, TV Scripts, Book advertising using Ethnic values. 98. Gets books
placed in bookstores reviewed and in public view. 99. Acquires new mailing
lists. 100.Sends out excellent info packs. 101.Invites Scientologists to
ask that info packets be sent to friends and relatives. 102.PUBLIC
ACTIVITIES SECRETARY: Co-ordinates and gets done the Division - al
promotional functions of Division 7. 103.DEPARTMENT 19 (DEPT OF FACILITIES,
SCHEDULES AND PUBLIC EVENTS): Plans and organizes Public Events.
104.Advertises and holds Congresses, Open Evenings, etc. 105.Furnishes
lecturers to public-bodies and groups. 106.Plans and conducts lecture tours
and special events. 107.DEPARTMENT 20 (DEPT OF ACTIVITIES): Guides in new
body traffic. 108.Makes sure Public reception area displays full data
making Scientology real to the Public and includes nothing that would
overwhelm or confuse. 109.Sees that the Introductory Lecture and non-
classed courses use no words that will be misunderstood and makes people
want to buy training and processing and offers it. 110.Advertises and
conducts an Extension Course. 111.Encourages broad public (Lay)
Memberships. 112.DEPARTMENT 21 (DEPT OF SUCCESS): Contacts by letter all ex-
pcs and students of the org. They should be written to at widening
intervals after leaving the org. 113.Keeps bad cases and flopped students
out of the field by sending all who fail Key Questions directly to Review
at the cost of the Organization. 114.Collects by letters, or verbally,
successful applications of Scientology. 114A.Acknowledges the activities of
Scientologists busy out in the world. 115.Encourages and publicizes various
applications of Scientology. 116.Makes a catalogue of successes with
various processings on various conditions. 117.Issues stories of successful
application. 118.Condenses wins into data of interest for mags and as
handouts. 119.Gets spectacular wins posted on the org's public notice
boards and in Success booklets at Reception. 120.Makes sure morale in the
Org is high, with Chaplain picking up any loose threads in Ethics matters
and seeing they are cleared up and that people do not fall off the Org
board. 121.Quickly acts through the Chaplain's Court Unit to resolve any
disputes of a Civil nature among Scientologists. 122.Advertises and
conducts a successful Sunday Service. 123.DISTRIBUTION SECRETARY: Co-
ordinates and gets done the Divisional promotional functions in Division 8.
124.DEPARTMENT 22 (DEPT OF FIELD RECRUITMENT, ESTABLISHMENT AND RECORDS):
Recruits, appoints and establishes FSMs, Groups and Franchises.
125.Registers Franchise Centre names. 126.Finds and encourages the
formation of Scientology Groups and registers them and offers Certificates.
127.Recruits Field Staff Members to get pcs and students into the Org and
collect past debts. 128.Gets all commissions owed promptly paid to
encourage earning more commissions. 129.DEPARTMENT 23 (DEPT OF FIELD
TRAINING): Trains the FSMs and Franchise holders and makes them financially
successful. 130.Treats the whole departmental activity as salesmen are
handled by any other business org. 131.Carries out all FSM and Franchise
activities and makes them head people towards the Org. 132.DEPARTMENT 24
(DEPT OF FIELD SERVICES): Keeps in touch with the Field and keeps them
informed and supplies them with advice and data. 133.Sends out mailings to
the Field. 134.Gives FSMs and Franchise holders and groups things they can
use to disseminate and select.
Tom Morgan Public Exec Sec WW
Jim Keely Qual Sec WW
Bruce Glushakow HCO Area Sec WW
Ad Council WW
Edie Hoyseth HCO Exec Sec WW
Allan Ferguson Org Exec Sec WW
Tom Morgan Public Exec Sec WW
Rodger Wright LRH Comm WW
LeifWindle Policy Review Section WW
Jane Kember The Guardian WW
for L. RON HUBBARD Founder
LRH:TM:ei.rd Copyright c 1969 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 24 AUGUST 1965 Issue II
Remimeo
CLEANLINESS OF QUARTERS AND STAFF IMPROVE OUR IMAGE
There is no quicker way to depress income and public goodwill than to
have dirty quarters and slovenly staff. While we know it takes income to
make a place look smart and to have elegant quarters, this is not the point
of this policy letter. Clean floors, walls, woodwork and service rooms
require very little. Clean washrooms and proper paper towels and tissue are
an ordinary requirement. As the world goes more beatnik it is hard to keep
up a standard of cleanliness and good order. But it can be done. And for
the sake of income and goodwill it must be done. The world has been
educated by business to a tradition of clean quarters and smart service. We
must at least equal that. Staff should be uniformed in orgs that can afford
it. A clean well dressed staff inspires confidence and begets the payment
of bills and more service. The private Scientology practitioner fails
mainly on his personal lack of professional address to his clients and his
personal dress is sometimes pretty grim. This is what costs him his income.
An org, to get anywhere at all, has to look like a real org and its staff
must look like professionals. Until they can be uniformed, they can be
clean. Similarly, until you can have really swanky quarters you can at
least have clean quarters, walls, WCs and things picked up. A clean set of
quarters and a neat, professional looking staff can increase your income by
about 500%. IMPROVE OUR IMAGE.
L. RON HUBBARD
LRH:ml.rd Copyright c 1965 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 17 JUNE 1969
Remimeo PRO Course Checksheet Div 6
THE ORG IMAGE
A poor org public image can cost an org 9/l0ths of its income thus
greatly curtailing pay and facilities. It can lead to trouble with the
area. It can reduce the expansion of Dianetics and Scientology to near
zero. When important people enter an org and find its premises messy,
themselves and their requirements neglected, the org not only loses their
fee, it also loses the important friends who would actively protect it. If
an org and its staff displays a downstat image, public confidence in
Dianetics and Scientology is shaken. By showing a good org mock up we are
living examples of what Dianetics and Scientology can do. There are several
zones which comprise the org image. 1. Premises, particularly the entrances
and interview and service areas. These should be neat, not cluttered up
with baggage, paper, tattered notices or unsightly things. 2. Public comm
lines. Letters and mailings should be correctly addressed with the right
name and not sent to several addresses for the same person. The appearance
and tone of any mailings and communications should be good and not offend.
"Friendly and agreeable responses" was the first order I ever gave to an
org. 3. Staff. Appearance and attitude to the public. 4. Service Delivery,
assurances of. 5. Publicizing values of service. 6. Publications,
appearance and suitability of distribution. 7. Alliances with suitable
groups and leaders, with due regard to local "ethnic" values. (Publicly
admired values.) 8. Eradication of enemies on public lines with due regard
to local ethnic values (publicly detested values). 9. Alignment of
promotion with things publicly admired and against things publicly
detested. 10. Advertising, effectiveness, suitability and lawfulness of.
11. Membership expansion. 12. Group expansion. 13. Expansion planning of
facilities. _________________ Contemporary "Public Relations Officer"
duties in business firms are not as embracive as the above 13 points. These
are loosely classified as follows (quoted from their texts). "1. To keep
management informed of public opinion, and of events and trends likely to
affect its reputation. "2. To advise management on the policies and actions
it should adopt in order to gain and keep public good will; and on the
likely effects, in terms of public opinion, of any policies and actions
dictated by other factors. "3. To apply public relations techniques to
solve problems in which the company's reputation is at stake and to
maintain a continuing, positive programme of action to secure good will,
presenting the company in all its aspects to all its audiences by every
appropriate means of communication. "The executive side of the public
relations man's work includes the company's relations with the press, radio
and television; the production of many kinds of printed matter, including
company reports, house magazines, wall charts, brochures and even books;
films and film strips; exhibitions; the design of company stationery; the
way a firm receives its visitors; a watching brief on the way it answers
its telephone calls, writes its letters, handles complaints; its policy on
donations to charity and an infinite variety of items beyond." We often
hear that we should hire a public relations firm to do all these things.
The catch is that these firms have a high personnel turnover and new men on
the "accounts" have to be rebriefed continually. We have in the past hired
contemporary professional PRO men AND THEY LAID THE FOUNDATION OF OUR
DIFFICULT TIMES WITH PRO ACTIONS. In Dianetics and Scientology we have gone
up against a totalitarian conspiracy using "mental health" to control
populations. This was not a normal PRO atmosphere as encountered by
business firms. It began with war where the enemy controlled all news media
and governments. We had to be very very good indeed to live through it at
all. Our "public" does not understand this. They are accustomed to sleek
untroubled firms selling them "Wheaties the Breakfast of Idiots" or "go
Slow gasoline" or "You too can be insane". So in Dianetics and Scientology
we have a job in PRO which far exceeds the usual company demands. In
ordinary PRO actions we have not done too badly in the past. For instance
our people handling Congresses make the U.S. Democratic Party Convention
PROs look like rank amateurs. The enemy has used all available PRO and
Intelligence techniques to hold us back, and as the enemy also controlled
many key government figures, this has been a very rough time. That we are
alive at all and expanding shows we have not done too badly. The enemy is
definitely losing. The reason for this is INTEGRITY. By and large our
people are sincere. WORD OF MOUTH is a public relations comm line superior
to press, radio, television or Mr. Big. Radio, press and TV only seek to
create "word of mouth". This term means what people say to one another. By
standing for what people think is good and opposing what people think is
bad greatly speeds WORD OF MOUTH. We will go as far as Dianetics and
Scientology work in the hands of auditors and no farther. The enemy,
lacking integrity, word of mouth and workable tech has not won despite
total control of governments, press, radio, TV and all standard PRO media,
plus financing in terms of billions. Thus we see that there are three
commodities above contemporary PRO concepts. These are: A. INTEGRITY B.
WORD OF MOUTH C. WORKABILITY AND USEFULNESS OF PRODUCT. All the PRO advices
and direction will not prevail if the above three things are not an
integral part of "the company" PRO planning. How much a product COSTS has
some bearing on whether or not it is used. But unstabilizing prices, we
have learned (such as a small increase) is utterly deadly. And reducing
prices does not actually increase sales in our experience. The exception is
the granting of 50% scholarships and giving certain courses as Field Staff
Member prizes. And here it does seem that the STATUS value outweighs the
monetary saving appeal. Therefore STATUS INCREASE is a vital part of the
product. _________________ However, whether Dianetics and Scientology have
been at war or not, the first 13 points are what we would consider routine
PRO actions which, if neglected, would result in heavy income losses. A
staff idling in reception, offhand handling of callers, wrong address or
names misspelled drive off customers. Aside from simply blocking sign-ups
these points also REDUCE CUSTOMER STATUS. As our organizations are built
(due to tech concentration) on handling the individual, any PRO must be
very alert to any point which would seem to the "customer" to diminish his
status. A PRO should himself look at the given points from the viewpoint of
an important potential "customer". Would the org environment and handling
attract or drive off an important person (let us say, the Mayor) as a
"customer". If the answer is "yes" in any point, then the Org is losing up
to 90% of its income through these PRO omissions. If a staff is poorly paid
or the premises are poorly furnished, cluttered or dirty then the error
lies in either the 1st 13 or the above A, B, C points of PRO. A PRO in
advising actions to the EC (and he should have direct access to the
Executive Council or Management) should be very wary of killing off the
Org's vitality with too much militant control. The PRO also has the staff
as a public. If one wants to clear sandwich-eating staff off reception the
best way is to start a campaign for a staff lounge, get it and then forbid
staff to clutter up reception. The PRO in accomplishing PRO points is of
necessity a creature of ideas even in getting his routine PRO actions done.
The enemy we have had gets very high points on 1 to 13 (omitting 4,
assurances of delivery and 7 and 8 Ethnic points). Dianetics and
Scientology orgs get rather low points on 1 to 13 (excepting 4, 7 and 8
which they do well). Dianetics and Scientology orgs do well on A, B and C.
The enemy utterly collapses on these. If Dianetics and Scientology orgs did
well on all points (1 to 13 and A, B and C) the battle would be won in very
little time. If a PRO is not working to bring points 1 to 13 and A, B and C
all into full operation in his area, he is not doing his job. If he is
doing all these things he is a very very valuable PRO and should be given
every possible assistance on his job.
L. RON HUBBARD Founder
LRH:ek.cs.ei.rd Copyright c 1969 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 11 DECEMBER 1969
Remimeo PES Hat Dir Eth Hat
(IMPOR TANT ORG BD CHANGE)
APPEARANCES IN PUBLIC DIVS
The Appearance of the Org and Staff is transferred out of Department
One which becomes the DEPARTMENT OF PERSONNEL AND ROUTING and may still be
called RAP but should be changed on the org board. In accordance with HCO
Pol Ltr of 29 Nov 69 NEW PUB DIVS ORG BOARD: APPEARANCES comes under the
Department of Ethnics Div 6, Dept 16, Ethnic Acceptable Appearance Section.
The Public Exec Sec therefore is directly responsible for the appearance of
the org, its staff, its literature and publications so far as appearance
and acceptability go. Appearances never worked under Dept 1. "Image" is
actually a PRO function and it is of vital interest to the Public Exec Sec
as otherwise his promotion may be dulled or rendered null. Appearance can
even cause him much trouble. The IMAGE of an org and its staff and its
literature and publications actually is a form of projection into the
public. The reason it is in Dept 16 is that this is the first department of
the Public Divisions. Also it is something which has to be fitted into the
values of the population where the org is located. They have definite
ethnic ideas of what an org would look like, what a staff would dress like,
what the literature should look like if any of these had a command
position. It is always easy when one has millions to spend to make a
commanding image. The trick is to make it without its costing more than one
can afford. One has to make the money before one makes the full image.
There is much one can do-and has to do-at no financial cost or at a low
price. One can paint up a place with volunteer help for the cost of rented
machines and materials. Staff individual areas of responsibility ("Cleaning
Stations") should be assigned via the HCO ES so that all areas of an org
are covered. If one has a cleaning service this is still necessary as there
is such a thing as litter. Newspapers, magazines, typewriters, machines-no
cleaning service handles these. That is staff action because it's staff
use. Where one does not buy the staff its clothing one can still insist on
clean hands, fingernails and cut hair, bathed bodies and brushed teeth,
polished shoes and so on. It's poor advertising indeed when a staff member
is dirty and unkempt. When one has money and an Ethnic survey has
determined what the population thinks a professional looks like, one can
buy the staff clothes that forward a highly professional image to create
public respect and confidence. Remember in this survey as in all Ethnic
surveys, one does not copy professionals in the society as they haven't
done a survey. One is interested in looking like what the public thinks a
professional looks like. This is moderated of course by what the staff will
then be proud to look like. Reception and staff manners are part of
appearances. An auditor's bad breath or body odor can cost you quite a lot
of gained ground. So this is part of it also. A noisy atmosphere near
auditing rooms or in reception, radios playing, staff chattering can spoil
an image. Children flying about and babies' nappies hanging are about as
far as you can get from a professional image. Do all right for the Congo
maybe but even there I can't imagine a ju-ju being taken very seriously in
a hut so equipt. The way to spoil an org image is of course to subdue or
kill what successful Sen orgs have always been noted for-a happy, friendly,
busy atmosphere. So the use of heavy ethics to produce image compliance is
murderous. Pride is the primary reason for good appearance. So staff
cooperation and enthusiasm for the project is worth thousands of conditions
seeking to force them to work for an image. Modern schools are so backward
they don't teach personal appearance, manners, cleanliness. And a lot of
staff just don't know any better and have to be taught what they weren't
taught in schools. Fighting to obtain and improve a suitable image is
inevitably quite a task. If the org had lots of money it could buy its
image. But without lots of money the image has to be gradually built.
Cleanliness and neatness are the primary building blocks to respect in most
societies. An org without money has to have an image to make money but an
image costs money and the org hasn't any. That's a typical problem. "We
should have a building like the new Life Insurance Skyscraper" leaves the
problem unsolved. There is a gradient between. You can pay so much rent you
just work for the landlord or the bank. Or the rent is so high you can't
afford enough space to earn the rent. Problems like that crop up. If the
Tech-Admin ratio of 2 Admin to 1 Tech is kept and even brought toward 1 to
1, and if promotion is excellent and effective and tech service and org
service is good, it is easy to lay aside enough to earn new quarters. So
the image can be improved. Similarly literature quality is desirably very
high. But its cost can rise to a point where it makes promotion too costly
to be engaged upon. That has happened several times to orgs where they went
overboard on too posh literature. Quality of presentation of tape
recordings-sound quality-definitely comes under Dept 16 now. The org image
is in the care of the PES. I trust he does well with it.
L. RON HUBBARD Founder
LRH:ldm.ei.rd CopyrightR 1969 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
[Amended by HCO P/L 2 October 1970, Appearances-Clarification, Volume
6, page 53.] HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
37 Fitzroy Street, London W.I HCO POLICY LETTER OF 6 JULY 1959 Issue 2
Convert Sec E.D. CenO,
OUTFLOW
Outflow is holier, more moral, more remunerative and more effective
than inflow. The order of priority of staff action follows for any
department or staff member: 1. Outflow to general public using any comm
particle or body, 2. Inflow of income producing comm particles, 3. Outflow
of finished work or reports to other org members, 4. Inflow of orders,
requests, information from other org members. Give priority in terms of
time as above and increase your unit.
L. RON HUBBARD
LRH:gh.rd Copyright c 1959 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 4 JANUARY 1966 Issue III Gen Non - Remimeo
SCIENTOLOGY ORGANIZATIONS COMMUNICATIONS SYSTEM: DISPATCHES (Revises HCO
Policy Letters of 8 April 1958 and 13 December 1962) An infra-
organizational dispatch is a simple thing. You can keep a copy if you wish,
but only one copy (the original) goes and comes back. When writing a
dispatch, address it to the POST-NOT the person. (If a person changes post,
or leaves, if you address the dispatch to the post, it will be received by
the new occupant of the post, but if you address it to the person, then if
the person leaves it may not be received and handled.) Set up a dispatch as
follows: (for information or advice) Example: Mimeograph Officer Supply
Officer (date)_________________ Dear_________________,
Your order of...... (message). (complimentary close)
Signature________________________
or for a request or an order:
Mail Clerk via Dir Comm (date)________________
HCO Area Sec
Dear__________
Please see that................(order or request). (complimentary
close)
Signature __________________
This form is used so that when it is ready to be returned, an arrow
can be drawn pointing to the post to which it is to be returned,
eliminating the need to write if. If the message is one that should go in
your hat, either put it in your hat and acknowledge sender, or write it up
for your hat, returning the original to sender. If the dispatch comes to
you from a junior always insist the junior has attested "it is okay". If
you in turn wish to send it on, you too must attest "it is okay" and send
it on. If it is not OK return the dispatch to the originator stating
briefly why it is not OK. The receiver handles the dispatch and retains the
dispatch until such time as it has been completely handled. If it is a
matter which involves days or weeks, you can dispatch the sender stating
that such and such is being attended to and expected to be complete within
a certain time-but retain the original dispatch until job is done, then
return it to sender marked "DONE". Do not return the original with "It's
being attended to". Originals only return with "DONE" or "Can't be done".
Otherwise the communication stays incomplete. When replying to a dispatch,
put down the date of the message. Dispatches are handwritten. Executives,
other than Exec Secs, should not have their dispatches typed by a secretary
except where the dispatch contains large volume. COLOUR FLASH SYSTEM FOR
DISPATCHES AND LETTERS The colour flashes for paper for divisions are as
follows: HCO Division 1 - Gold HCO Division 2 - Light pink or violet
Division 3 - Deep Pink Division 4 - Green Division 5 - Grey Division 6 -
Yellow Division 7 - Brown [Public Division Flash Colours Division 8 -
Orange added per HCO PL 23 May 1969.] Division 9 - Blue or White White
paper is also used for letters to the field, business houses, Board
minutes, and for manuscripts and research notes. Copies of letters written
are on the colour flash of the division writing the letter. WRITTEN
REQUESTS If you have a request, put it in writing. Do not go to the person
and expect him to carry your request around in his head. Personnel are not
supposed to present their body, nor their body with a dispatch to other
personnel except for actual conferences which are kept to a minimum. Few
things need conferences. Dispatches take care of 99% of organizational
business. COMM CENTRE BASKETS The Comm Centre contains a basket for each
staff member. Each basket is tagged with the person's name and underneath
the name is their post or posts. Each person is responsible for delivering
his own dispatches to the proper baskets and for picking up daily his own
dispatches. Do not fail to pick up your dispatches at least twice a day
(once in the morning and once in the afternoon-make your own schedule). But
do not let dispatches pile up in your basket. In larger orgs a Comm Centre
and separate Divisional Comm Centres may be instituted. The Comm Centre
would consist of one basket for each division plus a basket for L. Ron
Hubbard and an outer org OUT basket. Each divisional comm centre is placed
in the divisional working area with a basket for each staff member in that
division plus a divisional in-basket and a divisional out-basket. An HCO
dispatch courier would be responsible for delivering dispatches into the
divisional in-baskets and from the divisional out-baskets into the comm
centre baskets. The sec sec is responsible for the distribution of
dispatches from the divisional in-basket to staff members' baskets.
ORGANIZATION BOARD Keep abreast of all post changes. As the Org Board
is changed, the Comm Centre baskets are changed. Always know who is
occupying what post so that when you deliver a dispatch you will always
know whose basket it goes in. If you are not sure, check the Org Board.
RESPONDING TO COMMUNICATIONS Handle your dispatches daily. Do not let them
stack up on you. When someone sends you a dispatch let them hear from you.
Do not get the reputation of 'I hesitate to send so and so a dispatch
because I don't know when I'll hear from it, or if I'll ever hear from it.'
DO NOT LET YOUR DISPATCHES DEAD-END. When you let your dispatches (or
letters) stack up on your desk, you are in actuality chopping the comm
lines of the organization and in so doing chopping your own pay cheque.
ANSWERING LETTERS Secretaries who type letters should always take care to
staple the carbon copy on top of the incoming letter-do not use a paper
clip. In answering letters, answer their questions. Give them the
information they are seeking. Use the gradient scale method. DO NOT FAIL TO
ANSWER THEIR QUESTIONS. If you don't know the answers, find out. ORIGINATED
DISPATCHES The purpose of the secretarial unit is to type answers to
letters. Most all intra-organizational dispatches can be handwritten: this
saves time in putting them on tape (when you could be writing them
yourself) and saves the transcriber's time for replying to letters. Stay in
communication with other staff members and with our correspondents. If you
don't handle your dispatches properly don't reply to the sender, as I said
before, you are cutting your own pay cheque.
L. RON HUBBARD
LRH:ml.rd Copyright c 1966 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
[Note: The two earlier issues of 8 Apr '58 and 13 Dec '62 were the
same basic issue as the above Policy Letter, with a few changes reflecting
the evolution of the Comm System and the Org Board. 13 Dec '62 was a
straight reissue of 8 Apr '58-as part of the Reissue Series (7)-with minor
changes such as the inclusion of a salutation in the dispatch example, and
in the first paragraph under Comm Centre Baskets, addition of a phrase,
"(except in some larger Orgs, where there is a Communicator for this
purpose)" after the sentence saying each person is responsible for picking
up and delivering his own dispatches. 4 Jan '66, Issue III (above) gave two
dispatch examples instead of one as given in both earlier issues, showing
the different routing for information or advice and for a request or an
order; added the second half of the last paragraph on page 101 re including
the attestation "it is okay" on a dispatch; updated the Colour Flash System
in line with the 7 Division Org Board, which in the earlier two issues had
been based on type of dispatch, report, letter, carbon copy, etc. as
opposed to Divisional colour flash; and deleted a second half of the
paragraph entitled Written Requests, which read, "We have a Comm Centre
where dispatches are to be placed. Place your dispatches in the person's
basket, not in his hands. IT IS ANXIETY ABOUT COMMUNICATION ONLY THAT
CAUSES PEOPLE TO JUMP THE LINES. There may be, however, a few exceptions:
emergencies, or if you have a large article that would not fit into a Comm
Centre basket. The point is, do not mn around all day handing people
dispatches, nor put them down on someone's desk. This tends to intermpt
their work and causes confusion on the lines." It also added the second
paragraph under Comm Centre Baskets re Divisional Comm Centres; and under
the paragraph Answering Letters, after the sentence, "Give them the
information they are seeking," deleted "-but do not try to sell them a
course and an intensive if all they want is some information concerning an
ad we are running."] HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
LONDON HASI POLICY LETTER OF 6 NOVEMBER 1958
THE THREE BASKET SYSTEM
Effective immediately, each Admin personnel is to have a stack of
three baskets. The top basket labelled "IN", should contain those items
still to be looked at. The middle basket, labelled "PENDING", is to contain
those items which have been looked at but can not be dealt with
immediately. The bottom basket, labelled "OUT", is to contain those items
which have been dealt with and are now ready for distribution into the comm
lines again, or to file, etc.
L. RON HUBBARD LRH:ph.bt.rd
[This P/L was reissued without change as FC P/L of 15 November 1958.]
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 30 MARCH 1966
All Divisions Remimeo All Staff Hats Staff Status 2 Check Sheet
Revised Reissue of HCO Pol Ltr ofl5Nov 1958 THE THREE BASKET SYSTEM
All personnel assigned a desk and a specific stationary working space
are to have a stack of three baskets. The top basket, labelled "IN", should
contain those items and despatches still to be looked at. The middle
basket, labelled "PENDING", is to contain those items which have been
looked at, but which cannot be dealt with immediately. The bottom basket,
labelled "OUT", is to contain those items which have been dealt with and
are now ready for distribution into the comm lines again, or to files, etc.
L. RON HUBBARD LRH:lb-r.rd Copyright c 1966 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL
RIGHTS RESERVED HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 22 JUNE 1964
Cent. Orgs Franchise
RE-ISSUE SERIES (19)
ORGANIZATION POSTS - TWO TYPES (Re-issue of London HCO Bulletin of
April 24, 1959)
We have two types of posts in an organization: 1. Line posts 2. Fixed
Terminals. A line post has to do with organizational lines; seeing that the
lines run smoothly; ironing out any ridges in the lines; keeping particles
flowing smoothly from one post to another post. A line post is concerned
with the flow of lines, not necessarily with the fixed terminal posts at
the end of the lines. An example of this is a Communicator. His job is
mainly keeping communications flowing smoothly from one terminal to
another. Any time there is a stop in the flow of communications, he
straightens it out. Other examples of line posts are HCO Area Secretary,
Central Files Promotion Liaison, Training Administrator, and Processing
Administrator. A Fixed Terminal post stays in one spot, handles specific
duties and receives communications, handles them, and sends them on their
way.
L. RON HUBBARD
LRHJw.rd Copyright c 1964 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 10 APRIL 1963
CenOCon SHSBC Students Franchise Field RE-ISSUE SERIES (12)
WHAT AN EXECUTIVE WANTS ON HIS LINES (Re-issue of HCO Policy Letter of
May 26,1959)
There are only four things which an executive wants on his incoming
communication lines. These are: 1. Information 2. Appointments and
dismissals of personnel for his action or confirmation. 3. Financial
matters. 4. Acknowledgements. He does not want on his lines: 1. Demands
for decisions. 2. Backflashes and can'ts. 3. Entheta. Demands for
decisions are always indicative of irresponsibility; people want the
executive to create the mistakes; and an executive can make mistakes if he
is asked to make decisions distant from his zone of action equipped with
insufficient data to make the decision correctly. Backflashes, by
definition, are an unnecessary response to an order. This can get fairly
wicked. They are not acknowledgements, they are comments or refutals.
Example: "Sell the bricks" as an order, is replied to by "Bricks are hard
to sell" or "We should have sold them yesterday". This is a disease
peculiar to only a few staff members. They cannot receive an order directly
and are seeking to be part of the comm, not the recipient. This goes so far
as senseless "Wilco's" or "I'll take care of it" when the executive only
wants to know Is it done? Despatches or orders, in most instances, are held
until completed. We assume that they got through or rely on other means of
saying they didn't. Only a few situations require an acknowledgement to an
order over long lines and all of these occur when there is doubt that the
recipient is there. In the matter of can'ts, an executive seldom orders the
impossible and generally consults with people before issuing an order. A
persistent "Can't be done" means "I am unwilling". I have learned this the
long way. Person A on a job, saying "Can't" all the time, changed to Person
B, receiving the same orders, discovered to me that the job could be done
since B, on the same post, receiving the same orders, never said "Can't"
and the job did get done. Entheta means embroidered reports. Data is data.
It is not opinion. Data, not entheta, brings about action. All entheta does
is cut the lines. To jam an executive's lines is a serious thing to do. The
result is a cut line. A bottle-neck is created by staff when staff jams a
line to an executive. Eating up an executive's time and patience destroys
harmony, dissemination and income. Depending on an executive for petty
decisions, is sure to jam lines and cost units. The role of an executive is
to plan and execute actions and to co-ordinate activities. To do this he
gets people to do their jobs and establishes the overall plan of action.
Only an exective can string lines and co-ordinate actions and resolve the
jams that impede things. For an executive to decide for people decisions
applicable only to the sphere of one job is folly. WHAT AN EXECUTIVE'S
LINES SHOULD LOOK LIKE INFORMATION: When a member of an organization does
something of importance, he should always inform the executive after the
fact. It is perfectly all right to take actions within one's organizational
purpose. It is not all right to keep it a secret. 1. Do it 2. Tell the
right people and the executive by adequate communication at the speed
necessary to the case. Similarly, an executive ought to tell people his
goals and plans and, when he does something of any importance to others, he
ought to say so. The captain who tells the ship how the action is going
saves a lot of nerves and useless motion. APPOINTMENTS AND DISMISSALS:
Minor hirings and firings in a department by authorized persons should
always be subject to confirmation at least after the fact. Major
appointments and dismissals of key personnel must be okayed by a senior
executive before the fact and action taken only on the senior executive's
authority. For example, it is a board action to appoint, transfer or
dismiss an association secretary or an organization secretary. It is an
executive director action to appoint or dismiss department heads and then
only on the advices of an association secretary or organization secretary.
It is an association secretary or organization secretary action to appoint,
transfer or dismiss deputies or section chiefs. It is a department head's
action to appoint or dismiss other staff but always, in every case, with
permission from the next superior and information all the way up. FINANCE
MATTERS: Consistent finance information as in advisory committee minutes
and authority for changes and capital expenditures are an executive matter.
My own authority is needed only on major changes of policy or expenditures
and on extreme financial emergencies. Ordinary financial planning and
routine actions are better handled locally by the association secretary,
organization secretary or the director of accounts. I do need financial
information. But where I have done planning and promotion and it is agreed
upon, further handling of finance is handled under a blanket authority from
me except for extreme financial emergencies or major capital outlays which
are local matters. These are the things I want on my lines. I change
personnel as the answer where information is chronically withheld, where
appointments and dismissals are irregular, or when an organization starts
getting insolvent. Where people are continuously demanding that I make the
decisions they should be making, I again recognize other ills and again
change personnel. If we all understand what's wanted, we can do it. Well,
let's look this over and do it and win.
L. RON HUBBARD
LRH:gl.rd Copyright c 1959, 1963 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
[Note: No significant change was made when reissued.] HUBBARD
COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 31 JANUARY 1961
HCOs
MESSAGE PLACEMENT
HCO's first action is Communication. Everyone should know message
placement. Cables and Telex: Original is never put on comm lines. Only
copies go on the comm lines. Take the message out of the telex, date stamp
each copy. Put original in Telex basket. Hand deliver at once all copies to
interested parties. Place cable or telex in the exact centre of the
recipient's desk blotter. Do not place in IN basket. Do not mix with other
papers. Recipient of a cable copy (if by telex) may destroy it or route it
to other interested persons. If there is only a cable from the company, not
a telex, as it has none but original copies, it must be held and filed.
Cable answers are always delivered to Communicator by hand and have
priority. They do not go on routine comm lines. DESPATCHES Despatches
marked rush are handled by special handling. They go on centre of desk like
cables and telexes. Routine despatches go on comm lines. Letters go on comm
lines.
L. RON HUBBARD
LRH:js.rd Copyright c 1961 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 21 SEPTEMBER 1961
Sthil
DESPATCH LINES
Every person must have a basket station. Each domestic staff member
has a single station located in the back hall. Every office member or
school staff member has a three basket station located by his or her desk.
Every office or school staff member must have a desk. The station baskets
must be at that desk. The staff member may also have a beanstalk properly
labelled. But all despatches and active work must be in the office staff
member's station baskets or beanstalks and no work may be put in desk
drawers or hidden off the lines that is active. All active despatches must
be delivered where they are going and must thereafter be visibly in
stations or beanstalks under visible headings. All In baskets must be kept
empty. When an In is viewed but not done, it goes into the person's
pending. It must be possible to locate any active despatch on the lines
whether it is a business day or not. Keep your basket station straight.
Keep your in basket empty. And keep current work visible and where it
belongs on the lines. By the way, I can always judge the state of a
department by the state of the station.
L. RON HUBBARD
LRH:jl.rd Copyright c 1961 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 29 MARCH 1965
Remimeo
STAFF HATS ORIENTATION
ROUTING DESPATCHES
It is the concern of anyone sending a despatch or mimeo to route it
accurately. A major part of an executive hat is "routing". A vital part of
any staff member's duties is proper routing. Our orgs are too big for
routing to occur to Bill, Jane or Pete. Route to the hat only, give its
Department section and org. Put any vias at the top of the despatch.
Indicate with an arrow the first destination. Sign it with your name but
also the hat you're wearing when you write it. You might be holding several
hats. Which one wrote? Just as a post office can't find wrong addresses, so
neither can we. If you want your despatch to arrive, do the above. When you
get a misrouted despatch, look it over and see how it erred and return it
to sender with a copy of this Policy Letter. That way we'll take a lot of
confusion out of our orgs. There is an org there, you know. A lot of new
staff go about for quite a while never noticing there is an org there that
has posts and functions. If we all route to the right hat from the right
hat according to our org board, we'll make it a lot sooner.
L. RON HUBBARD
LRH:ml.rd Copyright c 1965 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 2 APRIL 1965
Gen Non Remimeo
HEED HEAVY TRAFFIC WARNINGS
Any department which has been warned of heavy traffic coming is to
take steps to see that the department is adequately supplied with the
materials necessary to handle the coming traffic. A covert block on the
line to stop or slow down a line over which an important flow is going, is
the no-supply-block. Then everyone has to stop because there are no
supplies, emergencies develop trying to get new supplies in, the flow on
the line jams-it is all Dev-T. Example: Promotion Department has a big
programme which will involve a lot of mimeoing, and warns mimeo of coming
traffic. Mimeo continues to order supplies in normal traffic quantities.
The delay in delivery is greater than the supply mimeo has to hand (the
heavy flow is already on the lines). Mimeo runs out of stencils. WHAM!
Emergency and the flow jams. Work time is lost, and the whole programme
goes off its time schedule. This same principle applies to additional
personnel-i.e. warning of heavy traffic coming-additional personnel needed.
It's just a case of having a little foresight. Lots of students or pcs
coming up in a Division must also be a subject of warning. Policy: WARN Org
Sec of heavy increases or decreases in traffic volume so his division can
BE READY.
L. RON HUBBARD
LRH:wmc.rd Copyright c 1965 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 26 MAY 1965 Issue II Gen Non Remimeo
COMMUNICATIONS REGISTERED MAIL No org may accept any registered mail. 1.
Long experience shows it comes only from psychos and governments. 2. It is
a lot of trouble to obtain from the post office. So just reject it. There's
no worry it may contain writs. It is just sent by nuts. PHONE CALLS Phones
are psycho. They have no memory. Overseas phone calls are often
incomprehensible and start mysteries. One often has to hang about for 6 or
8 hours in a mystery trying to connect with a call coming in. CABLE or
TELEX is far better. Use it. All overseas phone calls are turned down by
orgs. Inter-org phone calls even on one continent must be discouraged. Use
telexes and cables. Then we can find out what happened.
L. RON HUBBARD LRH:mLrd Copyright c 1965 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS
RESERVED
[Amended by HCO P/L 18 January 1970, Registered Mail, Volume 1, page
178, and HCO P/L 9 July 1971 Issue III, Communications-Telephone Usage-
Daily Call In, in the 1971 Year Book.] HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 11 JUNE 1965 Gen Non Remimeo Reception Accts HCO
CORRECTION TO HCO POLICY LETTER OF 26 MAY 1965 ISSUE II - COMMUNICATIONS -
REGISTERED MAIL Exception to the rule that no org may accept any registered
mail: as HCO Policy Letter of April 11th, 1963 states that rolls of names
and addresses from each org are to be sent by registered surface mail to
Capetown, Capetown is to accept, and be alert to accepting, such registered
mail. L. RON HUBBARD LRH:mh.rd Copyright c 1965 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL
RIGHTS RESERVED [Amended by HCO P/L 18 January 1970, Registered Mail,
Volume 1, page 178.] HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 10 JULY 1965 Remimeo All Exec Hats All Divisions
LINES AND TERMINALS ROUTING The most important things in an organization
are its lines and terminals. Without these IN IN AN EXACT KNOWN PATTERN the
organization cannot function at all. An Executive putting in new lines and
posts or making changes in old lines or terminals REQUIRES CLEARANCE FROM
THE OFFICE OF LRH before the order can take effect. Anyone following such
an order, to alter lines and terminals in the org which are already
established by policy who does not file a job endangerment ethics report (a
statement that his or her job is being endangered by the illegal order of a
senior) must share any penalty for such alteration. People who haven't a
clue about the org pattern throw it into chaos by altering the established
pattern. Then the org won't work and goes broke quickly. Therefore the most
serious threat to the stability of an org is shifting lines with no
understanding of what is supposed to happen. The lines and terminals (hats)
outlined in policy are based on long, hard experience. When they short-
circuit the org ceases to function as an org and becomes a mad scramble.
When despatch and body routing charts laid down by policy are carefully
followed, the org will function. When they are not, it won't. A serious
fault in any executive or staff member is unawareness of the co-ordinated
functions of terminals, or complete unawareness of other org hats and
functions. A D of T trying to wear an Ethics hat, a Qual Sec shifting his
internal lines, a Registrar who seeks to assign the hours of auditing would
be enough in any large org to throw it into a jumble where nothing works or
flows. There is more to an org than one person wearing all hats plus
another person wearing all hats, etc. Such an org just won't prosper. The
hardest job any top executive has is teaching the staff the lines and
terminals and getting them followed. That is because green staff is unaware
of the org itself, or its flow lines. A lot of the time, when one sees a
declining statistic, it is only that certain lines are out or being
misrouted. The lines will flow if they are all in and people wear their
hats. If the body and despatch lines flow, the org will prosper. If they
are disarranged, they won't flow and won't prosper. No executive or staff
member has any right to establish or alter terminals and lines without
express written permission from the Office of LRH. Believe it or not there
will be people around in orgs who have no faintest concept of its pattern-
or the existence of an org. And these will be the first to attempt large
changes. And these are the first you should send to the staff training
officer to get checked out on their posts. It is an Ethics offence to issue
orders altering lines without clearance from the Office of LRH.
L. RON HUBBARD
LRH:ml.rd Copyright c 1965 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 28 JULY 1965
Remimeo All Dissem Hats All Dist Hats All Communications Hats
HANDLING OF PHOTOGRAPHS
Photographs when sent through the communication line either by mail or
through the Comm Centre must always be routed either in boxes for such or
between two sturdy pieces of cardboard which will not bend. NEVER put a
paper clip on any photograph, either to keep several together or to attach
dispatches to. JUST NEVER PUT A PAPER CLIP ON ANY PHOTOGRAPH FOR WHATEVER
REASON! The reason for such protection of photographs is simple. If any
photograph has the least bend or break in it, it cannot be used for
photolithograph reproduction in magazines or printed matter as the bend or
break causes a white streak to appear in the reproduction which cannot be
corrected or used.
L. RON HUBBARD
LRH:ml.rd Copyright c 1965 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 17 JULY 1966 Remimeo All Staff DESPATCHES, SPEED
UP DESPATCHES, STALE DATE INTERNAL DESPATCHES Any staff member receiving an
internal org despatch that has been enroute more than three days (dated the
fourth day earlier than date of receipt) must report the matter to the
Director of Communications who must thereupon request the Director of
Inspection and Reports to investigate and report to Dir Comm and order any
resulting Ethics action. If an internal despatch is received back by the
originator more than six days after origin the same procedure must be
followed. If an answer to a despatch is not received back by the originator
in a period of six days the same procedure is followed. These time lags of
3 days and six days are to be considered extreme. If damage results or
expense occurs because an urgent message was not marked RUSH or if a RUSH
message did not promptly arrive, the same procedure is followed. EXTERNAL
DESPATCHES Any external despatch received with a date of 3 days earlier
plus ordinary transmission time must be so reported to Dir Comm and the
procedure is the same as Internal Despatches. If a despatch is not answered
in six days plus double transmission time, the same procedure is followed.
On Rush Despatches, any despatch older than 1 day is considered stale dated
where telegraph or telex exists. STALE DATE The term "Stale Date" (used
previously by banks on cheques) means any despatch or answer that is older
than one should reasonably expect when one receives it or any answer that
is older in date from origin to answer or answer to receipt than one should
reasonably expect. VIAS These regulations apply to all despatches and
include all vias. EXTRAORDINARY LOCATIONS Locations which are not served by
airmail, telex or telegraph are considered extraordinary locations and
stale date occurs only when reasonable expectancy is exceeded. TIME MACHINE
All orders or queries may go on Time Machine. A junior may place queries or
info on a Time Machine to a senior and may complain to Dir Comm re stale
date. A junior Org may place queries or info going to a senior Org on a
Time Machine and may complain to Dir Comm re any stale date. COPYING
DESPATCHES Anyone sending a stale date complaint to the Dir Comm must first
answer or handle any despatch he is holding and send it to the Dir Comm
with its answer. Dir Comm copies or xeroxes the original and the answer
promptly and sends the original on to its next recipient and uses the copy
only for investigation. ALL ANSWERS DATED Answer notes on despatches and
answers must hereafter be dated by the answerer. All despatches are of
course dated by the originator.
L. RON HUBBARD LRH:lb-r.rd Copyright c 1966 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL
RIGHTS RESERVED HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 17 OCTOBER 1966
Remimeo All Staff Hats Dir Co mm Hat Dir I & R Hat Inspections Officer
Hat
STALE DATE REPORTS
When reporting a stale date to the Director of Comms, bear in mind
that a weekend during which a staff member is not on post does not count as
two working days in the routing of a despatch. A despatch dated Friday,
October 7th and relayed by the next terminal on Monday, October 10th is not
stale dated right there if the terminal was not on post on the 8th or 9th,
and did not receive it till the 10th. In order to pinpoint the exact source
of any delay in handling and/or forwarding a despatch, all points through
which it passes must not only initial and okay it, but date it as well. A
series of initials tells the Director of I & R nothing as to which of them
might be responsible for any delay and necessitates body traffic. Where
action required on a despatch will take such time as to make it
impracticable for the originator to receive back his order or request
within six days of the date of origin, the person carrying out the order or
request must briefly acknowledge receipt of the despatch to avoid a stale
date report on himself. Such examples are where a Purchase Order is sent to
Financial Planning by Purchasing Officer and where Printing Liaison Officer
must obtain and get accepted quotes for the printing of materials. The
acknowledgement can be sent direct to the originator and should preferably
put in the R factor as to what is being done. Apparently losing sight of a
comm cycle can be upsetting to a staff member. Keep him posted.
L. RON HUBBARD Founder
LRH:lb-r.rd Copyright c 1966 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 13 MAY 1968 (Amends HCO Pol Ltr of 23 April 1968)
Gen Non-Remimeo TELEX COMM CLARITY (Dev-T Series) Communications-
particularly telex communications-are to be written in such a way as to be
understandable. Vital words are not to be spared under the guise of "saving
money", or some such consideration. All words necessary to the
understanding of the communication are to be used. Dev-T, expense, waste of
time and executive man hours are spent by incomplete communication.
EXAMPLE: Origination 127WW HCOESNT Immediately convene Board of I to
investigate dropped stats in Wollongong Love HCOESWW. Reply 127WW2 HCOESWW
Done Love HCOESNT This reply is incorrect as it doesn't say what this is
all about and now requires executive time in looking up the original telex.
Correct reply would be: 127WW2 HCOESWW B of I convened on Wollongong stats.
Love HCOESNT. Another example of incorrect communication would be an
originating telex needing clarification, thereby requiring 3 telexes before
one can begin to comply or answer. Telex lines are for speed and quite
often there is not time to get clarification. Therefore a message may go
unanswered. Every person on these lines is ordered to groove this in and be
thoroughly conversant on the subject of telex communications and how to
write them. Seniors are to ensure this is enforced.
Irene Dunleavy LRH:ID:jc.rd Staff LRH Communicator Copyright c 1968
for by L. Ron Hubbard L. RON HUBBARD ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Founder
[Note: The telex numbering in the above Policy Letter has been
corrected to the standard form using the letter designation of the
originating office. The original 23 April '68 issue and 13 May '68 mimeo
issue used non-standard numbering. A fully corrected mimeo, as above, was
issued on 23 July 1971.]
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 15 APRIL 1968 Gen Non-Remimeo
To ensure speed and accuracy of relay Telex traffic, communicators
must always include the word relay and destination, i.e. DELD "RELAY PAYER
AOA".
L. RON HUBBARD Founder LRH:jc.rd Copyright c 1968 by L. Ron Hubbard
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 30 SEPTEMBER 1969
Remimeo
ORDERS OF THE DAY
Orders of the Day are hereby established in all orgs. The purpose of
the OOD (Orders Of the Day) is to keep staff informed of Executive
intention, Org expansion and progress, Org condition and Ethics. A poorly
informed staff does not work well as a group towards common targets and
goals. The form of the OODs is black on white mimeo (or type-written and
displayed on staff notice board in small orgs) and has the following
general layout: 1. A heading giving the date, org, org condition and other
pertinent information such as number on staff etc. 2. The first item is
always a short extract or quote from LRH of a general interest nature. 3.
The next section is any orders, targets, or items by Execs arranged in
order of Exec seniority. 4. Any ethics notices. 5. Notices, orders, items
of interest, targets, target completions, general org news and wins. 6. The
OOD may not be used to advertise housing, cars for sale etc. Outside of
these general lines there are no other specifications for OODs. The LRH
Comm as I/A approves all OOD items before they are published. The intention
of this Pol Ltr is to see that staff are kept well informed on the org
progress and command intention. The biggest error that can be made with
OODs is to fail to inform and only order. OODs are not EDs and do not
replace them.
Proposed by RodgerWright - LRH Comm WW JimKeely - QualSecWW RosVosper
- HCO Area Sec WW Ad Council WW Anne Tampion - HCO Exec Sec WW Allan
Ferguson - Org Exec Sec WW Tom Morgan - Public Exec Sec WW LeifWindle -
Policy Review Section WW JaneKember - The Guardian WW LRH:RW:ei.rd for
Copyright c 1969 L. RON HUBBARD by L. Ron Hubbard Founder ALL RIGHTS
RESERVED HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
1812 19th Street, N.W., Washington 9, D.C. HCO POLICY LETTER OF 2 JULY
1959 Issue 2 DEVELOPED TRAFFIC THE DELIRIUM TREMENS OF CENTRAL ORGS There
is a phenomenon which costs a Central Org two thirds of the effort of its
staff members and executives. Stemming from various causes and cured by
Process S2 it nevertheless deserves notice as itself. I have been working
for 2 years on "Analysis of Organizations by Inspection of its Comm Lines."
It is now a fairly complete little science in itself. "Developed Traffic"
is a statement you will begin to see now. It is condemnatory. The symbol
DevT means on a dispatch, "This dispatch exists only because its originator
has not handled a situation, problem or an executive order." It also means,
"Responsibility for your post very low." Also it means, "You should be
handling this without further traffic." It also means, "You are manufact -
uring new traffic because you aren't handling old traffic." Also it means
"For Gawd's Sake!" Every time traffic is developed somebody has flubbed.
"Developed" Traffic does not mean usual and necessary traffic. It means
unusual and unnecessary traffic. Example: Dept Mat is told "Buy some chairs
for the Academy." If this goes properly, the chairs simply get bought, the
Dept Mat estimating students, state of exchequer and economical available
materiel and arranging delivery. Dept Mat may have to ask a couple verbal
questions of other departments to execute, but this is routine and
necessary. This can be used to DevT in this fashion. Issuing executive of
order "Buy some chairs" is asked "How many?" "What style?" "How much?"
"From what firm?" Or somebody else is asked these at length. Dept Mat is
now worse than a camouflaged hole. Dept Mat is making the acquisition of
chairs costly in terms of consuming dispatch time, other staff members'
time, upset and delay. This is DevT. DevT costs us the services of 66 2/3%
of our personnel. Hence, large staff, no effectiveness. Unwilling personnel
always makes DevT out of every situation, problem, order and policy. Take
unwilling personnel off the lines and traffic busyness drops by 2/3rds and
effectiveness increases by many times. "I want a book," gets answered by
DevT, gets shunted into other depts, gets mixed up in billing, makes an ARC
break in field which develops more traffic. Let an unwilling, irresponsible
person on our lines, a real victim, and we get enormously increased
busyness, enormously lowered dissemination. Look for DevT, Org Sees and HCO
Communicators and shoot it from guns hard before we all get shot. L. RON
HUBBARD NOTE: A request that a cook book be bought developed 29 dispatches
in DC, all of major executive level. A presentation of a bill that the
receiving terminal in the org knew was valid, and had money to pay, was
used to develop 15 cables and 135 dispatches and almost wiped out the
office. An incorrect price on an item caused 235 internal dispatches and
major ARC breaks with central orgs. An order to mimeo a flyer for one city
caused 1 Vs. hours of flashbacks to an Assoc Sec. All persons authoring the
DevT listed above are being suspended pending flattening of Process S2.
L. RON HUBBARD LRH:bg.rd Copyright c 1959 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS
RESERVED HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
37 Fitzroy Street, London W.I HCO POLICY LETTER OF 7 JULY 1959
Central
STAFF AUDITING REQUIREMENT (Modifying Earlier Directives)
An Analysis of proportionate pay plans has determined that more errors
on the whole are being made by most staffs on it, than when straight pay
prevailed. I take this then as an indicator that enough staff members in
Scientology central orgs have money difficulties that they are influencing
general income. Some of the errors made are enormously costly. I have been
studying this for many months and have made some conclusions. First, that
the errors and comm breaks are an unknowingly intentional effort on the
part of some to deny themselves income. This is demonstrated by the fact
that staff does not quit because of low units as often as staff members
have quit in periods of high units. I think proportionate pay gives an
ample opportunity to a very self-invalidating staff member to deny himself
and hence everyone money. Some of the errors made in the past year surpass
belief. The most serious of them have been aimed at grossly lowering
income. Recently I have been studying life sources and reactions in plants.
I have gained data now which, on preliminary look, indicates that a plant
becomes ill only pursuant to a series of shocks which make "it decide" it
cannot survive. Only after that does it "cooperate" with disease. Up to
that time it cannot seem to get ill. But when it does decide to die it
takes itself and tries to take everything else around it into illness. This
bears itself out in human beings more obviously than in plants. Illness
follows postulates to die. Any channel toward non-survival is then taken.
Proportionate income affords such a channel. I first began this particular
study when it was obvious that as large a staff as we had in DC and London
it would not produce higher income of its own initiative. I further noted
that my own work and dispatch volume was heavier out of proportion to
central org income of years ago. An analysis of my dispatches indicated
that they were, from certain quarters, designed to stop us by presenting
endless problems. DC, left to its own devices, in 60 days went from solvent
to
19,000 in the red. The biggest bills were errors made by people who
apparently punish themselves in their own personal lives with insolvency
and who seem to be trying hardest not to survive. Now all these factors
could stem from many causes, the tone scale, etc. But there seems to be
reason to believe that staffs as a whole are accepting the gross blunders
of a few to such an extent that if myself and the members of the
International Council as org officers were not continually alert, central
orgs would vanish. This is happening when times are good. The errors being
made are too obvious and too stupid to stem from carelessness. Low units do
not happen. They are made. I have now gone a little further and have found
a process which knocks out the contra-survival postulates. The pity of it
is, a person who now wants to live is being victimized by times he didn't
want to. So my actions here are not accusative. They are, I hope,
classifiable as "being effective". It eradicates the urge to be killed and
proofs one against people who have that urge. The process is "From where
could you communicate to a victim". The process number is Process S2. As by
earlier cable this is to be run on every member of staff until flat. It may
not take too long on most. There are other benefits. Comm is restrained by
a person who fears he will hurt something. And we can stand an upward
grading of comm. In the future, admit no person to staff until this process
is flat. Exception, casual hirings for clerical or materiel posts... but
these may not be maintained on staff without being processed on above. Once
this process is flat, we will take the attitude that staff members do not
have cases. I could easily write a book of data on all this. The process
itself is quite a triumph and can be used broadly. But right now I'm
concerned with the forward thrust of Scientology. It requires about two
good staff members today to handle the errors of one indifferent one
developing problems and traffic. The volume of work of our staffs could be
done, therefore, by one third the people. If we salvage them all we could
put out three times as much dissemination and have many times the income.
It's worth getting serious about. So let's get that process flat on
everybody from me on down.
L. RON HUBBARD NOTE: The process is best ran, by auditors on whom it
is not flat, fully muzzled with the question phrased: "Think of a place
from which you could communicate to a victim".
L. RON HUBBARD
LRH-.gh.cden Copyright c 1959 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
[Note: The above 7 July '59 issue is the same basic Policy Letter as the 2
July '59 issue published in the First Edition, with some minor corrections
and the addition of the Note at the end by LRH.] HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS
OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO BULLETIN OF 19 AUGUST 1959 (Re-issued as HCO Policy Letter of 29
May 1963) CenOCon SHSBC Students Franchise Field HOW TO HANDLE WORK Do it
Now. One of the best ways to cut your work in half is not to do it twice.
Probably your most fruitful source of Dev-T is your own double work. This
is the way you do double work. You pick up a despatch or a piece of work,
look it over and then put it aside to do later, then later you pick it up
and read it again and only then do you do it. This of course doubles your
traffic just like that. One of the reasons I can handle so much traffic is
that I don't do it twice. I make it a heavy rule that if I find myself
handling a piece of traffic, I handle it, not put it into a hold or a later
category. If I happen to be prowling through my basket in the Message
Center Stack to see what's there, I do what I find there. If I am given a
message or a datum that requires further action from me, I do it right when
I receive it. This is how I buy "loafing time". Now I'm not trying to hold
me up as a model of virtue as the man who always does his job; I do many
jobs and many hats; I am holding myself up as an ambitious loafer and as a
buyer of valuable loafing time. There's no need to look busy if you are not
busy. There is no need to fondle and caress work because there isn't enough
of it. There's plenty of work to do. The best answer to work of any kind is
to do it. If you do every piece of work that comes your way WHEN it comes
your way and not after a while, if you always take the initiative and take
action, not refer it, you never get any traffic back unless you've got a
psycho on the other end. In short, the way to get rid of traffic is to do
it, not to refer it; anything referred has to be read by you again,
digested again, and handled again, so never refer traffic, just do it so
it's done. You can keep a comm line in endless foment by pretending that
the easiest way not to work is to not handle things or to refer things.
Everything you don't handle comes back and bites. Everything you refer has
to be done when it comes back to you. So if you are truly a lover of ease,
the sort of person who yawns comfortably and wears holes in heels resting
them on desks, if your true ambition is one long bout of spring fever, then
you'll do as I suggest and handle everything that comes your way when it
comes and not later, and you'll never refer anything to anybody that you
yourself can do promptly. That people begin to point you out as a model of
efficiency, as the thing expected to cop the next world's speed record,
that articles begin to appear about the marvels you are creating, is all
incidental. You and I know we did it so we could be lazy and not have to
work. For it can be truly said that the way to all labor of a long and
continuous grind is by putting off the action when the message is received
and in referring it all to somebody else, that's the way to slavery, to
tired muscles and tattered brains; that's the route to baskets piled high.
So come loaf with me. Do it when you see it and do it yourself. L. RON
HUBBARD LRH:jw.vmm.rd Copyright c 1963 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS
RESERVED HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 4 SEPTEMBER 1959 (Re-issued as HCO Policy Letter
of 21 November 1962)
CenOCon Franchise Field
COMPLETED STAFF WORK (C.S.W.) - HOW TO GET APPROVAL OF ACTIONS AND
PROJECTS THE MOST IMPORTANT PIECE OF YOUR HAT
There is an old term called "Completed Staff Work" which we will now
employ in order to reduce Dev T and increase speed of action. The term
"Completed Staff Work" means-an assembled package of information on any
given situation, plan or emergency forwarded to me sufficiently complete to
require from me only an "Approved" or "Disapproved". Here is what slows
down approval and action and develops traffic: Somebody sends me a skimpy
piece of information and demands a solution. As more information is
required than is presented, I must then take over the person's Hat and
assemble the missing data using my own time and lines. I must then dream up
a solution and then order an action to be taken. This causes a slow-down on
any action, causes my lines, already loaded, to be used for information
assembly and brings about a feeling of emergency. My pending basket
overloads and confusion results. This would be called "Incomplete Staff
Work". It is incomplete because I have to complete it by: 1. Assembling the
data necessary for a solution; 2. Dreaming up the solution based on written
data only; 3. Issuing orders rather than approving orders. If you are mad
at your boss you can always ruin him with "Incomplete Staff Work". You
forward him a fragment of alarming data without collecting the whole
picture. This makes him do a full job of information collection. You give
him no recommended solution. This makes him have to achieve a solution by
remote examination of data; such solutions are often wrong as they are made
without full data. Then you make him issue arbitrary and forceful orders
that may ARC break some area and hurt his reputation. That's how to get
even with a boss. And even if there's no intention of harming him, sending
"Incomplete Staff Work" to your boss does harm him by making him send for
information-getting despatches on already crowded lines, by making him
guess at the situation, by making him cook up solutions which may be
unreal, and by thrusting him into the role of an arbitrary tyrant. Now that
we've seen the negative side, let us examine the positive side. "Completed
Staff Work" is an assembled despatch or packet which: 1. States the
situation 2. Gives all the data necessary to its solution 3. Advises a
solution; and 4. Contains a line for approval or disapproval by myself with
my signature. If documents or letters are to be signed as part of my
action, they should be part of the package, all ready to sign, and each
place they have to be signed is indicated with a pencil mark with a note in
the recommendations saying signatures are needed. Wrong example: A despatch
from Canada saying "Central Organization here is spending large amounts".
Look what I now have to do. I have to find out what is meant by "large
amounts", who is doing it, if it is dangerous, figure out a way to curtail
it and issue orders about it. None of this is my Hat. I am being forced to
wear the Hat of the informing person. Right example: I receive a packet
(cable is no good and delays the situation's being handled as many more
cables will be needed). This packet is covered with a despatch which says:
"145CA. Central Organization here fast approaching insolvency. Data
enclosed. I recommend: Director of Materiel be transferred to the post of
Ext. Course Director that is now empty and that Jules Bentley be hired on
the Dir. Mat. post at 25 units; that the Assn. Sec. be reprimanded for bad
financial management and be ordered to budget his outgo; that a purchase
order system be enforced; that a staff member ordering anything without
permission have the item deducted from his pay; that the Dir. of PrR. be
given lessons in letter writing. Approved ___________ Disapproved
___________ Signed: Jane HCO Sec. Canada."
Attached are copies of Ad Comm reports showing insolvency, a summary
of amounts spent in last two months, a summary of income for last two
months, a list of trivial items bought lately at high cost. What I do then
is check the approval line and sign. A cable is sent by my Communicator:
"145CA2 OK best = Ron". The whole packet is airmailed back. But you must
ask in your despatch to have a cable reply if you consider it that urgent.
On receipt of the cable the HCO Sec Canada issues the local Sec EDs and
takes the other needed actions. Action could occur because the data,
solutions and orders were all assembled as "Completed Staff Work". If you
want to hold down your post or project don't insist on my collecting the
data you should collect, dream up the solution you, more familiar with the
scene, should achieve, and don't put me in a position of issuing unreal
orders you can't then carry out. We are a big team and a good one. I know
any error on this in the past has occurred because you didn't know exactly
what I wanted. "Completed Staff Work" is what I want. Then you have your
Hat, you can do more to help, and our lines can stay freer and faster.
There have been good examples of this in the past. Let's make the
circumstances more general. If you get the letters CSWP on an item it means
"Complete the Staff Work, Please".
L. RON HUBBARD
LRH:gl.rd Copyright c 1962 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 17 NOVEMBER AD 14 Remimeo Sthil Staff OFFLINE AND
OFFPOLICY YOUR FULL IN BASKET (HCO Sec. Hat Check on all Executives and
send me a despatch personally each time you have done so-1 despatch per
checkout.)
These two data are paramount in handling Scientology Communication
Lines and your own In Basket. 1. The first duty of an executive is routing
properly and seeing that others route properly. If an executive does not do
this, then the lines in his or her area will stack up and become so tangled
that nobody can follow them or get through them. This reduces income and
dissemination-producing traffic volume-and general effec - tiveness. By
"routing properly" is meant to see that everyone around them routes
properly. Forwarding something already improperly routed creates Dev-T and
fails to handle misrouting where it is occurring. 2. Know and make known
policy. The first thought of an executive in handling a despatch requiring
a decision must be: "Is this already covered by planning or policy?" If the
executive knows existing policy he or she will find that 99% of despatches
"requiring decisions or solutions" are already cared for by policy and, the
policy being unknown or non-existent, only then require "special handling".
In short, if the matter is (a) covered already by policy, (b) if the sender
should know that policy, or (c) if the first executive receiving the
despatch knows policy, then the despatch should stop right there. This
leaves flowing only traffic where policy does not exist or despatches about
specialized matters. The answer to put on a despatch demanding something
already covered by policy is not some unusual solution. The answer on the
despatch should be of two kinds-(a) to a person outside who would have no
clue of policy, or (b) to somebody in an org who should know policy. In the
case where (a) originates a query, the proper answer is "Policy on this is
______." In the case of (b) originating a query already covered by policy
the answer is "Look up old (recent) policy on this." To outside people,
policy is largely unknown. Thus one has to look up the policy or recall it
to handle. But such seldom have questions needing subtle points and field
policy is very well known in orgs such as "Give them what we promised if it
was promised." "Keep entheta to a minimum" etc, etc. A simple "Sorry, it's
against policy," is the simplest (and usually best) solution to outside
wild queries or ideas. Why explain? You're not training a staff member.
Where a staff member is involved, it is expected he or she will know policy
or can look it up. If an executive gives the despatch querying for policy
an "unusual solution" where policy already exists, then a problem will
occur as this solution will clash with the other existing policy and the
staff member goes spinning off to no-policy no-org. And the organization
eventually becomes paralyzed. Any org that has an executive who doesn't
keep up with policy and general planning and who is always replying to
queries with unusual solutions of his own will soon find its income
dropping out the bottom as it's being stuck on the track with counter-
solutions. Soon, nobody will know what policy is, so in disagreement the
org disintegrates. It is no longer an org-only a bunch of individuals
working at cross purposes. MISROUTING Routing consists of forwarding a
proper communication to its proper destination or, more pertinent to an
executive, indicating how types of despatches are routed to staff members
who route org despatches. Misrouting would be misrouting indeed if one
forwarded an improper despatch to anyone else and failed to shoot it back
to its originator. An improper despatch is one which hasn't any business on
the lines. This is the soul of Dev-T (Developed Traffic)-the forwarding of
improper despatches. One can forward all the proper despatches in the world
without causing Dev-T. The moment one forwards an improper despatch to
anyone but the originator, one has involved other terminals and blocked
their lines too. When you forward a despatch which should never have been
written you become a party to the original Dev-T. Because the despatch is
improper it will do nothing but snarl up In baskets all the way along the
line. The ONLY correct action is to send it to the originator as improper.
IMPROPER By improper we don't mean insulting or obscene. We mean: (a) Has
nothing to do with the person to whom it is sent or forwarded, or (b) Is
already covered by policy which should be known to the originator or the
forwarding person. Under (a) we get nonsense despatches, despatches to the
wrong people, obvious lies, "everybody says" despatches, despatches
calculated only to make trouble, useless entheta and so on. Under (b) we
have (A-HA! discovered!) the staff member who is ignorant of what's going
on or what policies cover his or her post. We reasonably expect that, let
us say, a Registrar has read those policies, old and new, that cover
registration. From a general staff member we expect general planning to be
at least known as general policy letters all go into his or her basket and
so have been available. OFFLINE A despatch is offline when it is sent to
the wrong person. OFFPOLICY A despatch is offpolicy when originated by or
forwarded by someone who should know that the matter is already covered by
policy. DEV-T Traffic is developed (developed traffic, Dev-T) by
originating or forwarding an offline or offpolicy despatch to anyone but
the sender. This may seem obscure when we say a person originating an
offpolicy despatch should not send it to anyone but the sender-i.e.
himself. He has the policy letters and general planning just as available
to himself as they are to anyone in Scientology orgs. So querying by
despatch about a policy that can be looked up is just being too lazy to
look it up, isn't it? And putting the load on one's seniors to do one's own
work. When you forward an offpolicy despatch to anyone but the sender, you,
if you're an executive: (a) Involve other lines and (b) Fail to take the
opportunity to spot a staff member weak on policy. Your duty as an
executive is to send the despatch to its source with orders to look up
policy on this. Your duty is not to quote policy. He or she (the
originator) is the one in mystery. Let the originator do the work. Nay,
worse, prowl about that person a bit and see how bad it is and order if
needed a full check out of the person on policy letters applying to his or
her post. That's one's job as a senior executive. Not being a computer for
the org that turns out answers. Those staff members who habitually forward
queries or something adequately covered in write-ups of their own duties to
others are DYNAMITE in an organization. The policy on them has always been
THEY LEARN THEIR JOB AND DO THEIR JOB OR THEY GO. We can't afford them.
They can cost us the whole organization, and in two or three cases almost
have. They're too expensive when they don't learn their hats and general
policy or push their duties off on others. One of them in an org costs at
least two additional staff members to take care of their Dev-T and duties.
Actual fact. Even where the Dev-T doesn't blow up an org. I could not
possibly exaggerate their dangerousness to an org, fellow staff members and
Scientology. People who won't or can't learn policy or who continually
alter it have not progressed case-wise to Level I. They cannot receive a
comm so can't answer or respond properly and they do awfully wild things.
They never dig what we're at, so they create a mess. DUTIES OF AN EXECUTIVE
An executive keeps the organization on the road by getting people to get
the job done. He may also have his own work and does that too and probably
works very hard at it. But his organization duties are concerned mainly
with enforcing proper routing and making people learn and adhere to policy.
If an executive won't do that his post area or org is in a continual mess.
FLOODED IN BASKETS All you have to do is look at an Executive's In Basket
to know whether he or she is performing his or her executive duties.
Although he or she may empty it daily, if there's much org traffic flowing
through it you know at once that the person does not properly handle
offline or offpolicy despatches. This executive may be working day and
night on the In Basket. It's the volume of org despatches that says the
executive is not handling offline and offpolicy despatches or who has not
provided proper routing in his post area. Such an executive works himself
or herself half to death and is still unable to get his people out of the
red. If the In Basket is merely stacked up, and isn't being handled at all,
it tells us that this person simply doesn't do any job at all but is
kidding people. In actual experience when we find a stacked up, unmoving In
Basket we also find (a) pretended busyness or (b) just plain no action on
post or (c) outright lies. But these conditions cause an area of upset in
the org because somebody else above or below that person on the org board
is unable to get his job done because of that "camouflaged hole" (means
post not filled but only appears to be, thus leaving a hole in the line
up). Such people always cause overwork by persons above or below them and
are pretty dangerous to have around. POLICY ON DEV-T Our policy on finding
an habitually full In Basket which never gets handled is to (a) attempt to
get the person's hat on and if that fails (b) transfer them to a post they
really can do and if they don't work there (c) dismiss. We don't ever add
"processing" into our policy of handling such people as they are well below
Zero and take too much work on them to make them useful. Policy now
regarding the executives who work hard but have fantastic staff despatch
volume is (a) have them read this policy letter and if their volume doesn't
reduce (b) hat check them on this policy letter and if their volume still
doesn't fall to very little traffic (c) have them do the org board in clay,
do Scientology orgs over the world in clay, do their post in clay and
review all policy letters relating to their post and the org and planning
in general. The complaint is not that this executive isn't working. The
complaint is that this executive is not putting his post area together and
helping, through discipline of offline, offpolicy despatches to put an
organization there and put Scientology across over the world. Such an
executive, freed of the burden of handling offline and offpolicy despatches
will begin to do his own work industriously, will come out of protest and
begin to handle and disseminate Scientology and will cease to flood
Scientology lines by forwarding offline and offpolicy despatches. Further,
the executive will also supply routing directions for his general traffic
that brings about a smooth flow in his unit or department or org or
continent. SUMMARY You never send further an offline or offpolicy despatch.
You always route it back to the source, the staff member who sent it. On an
offline despatch you see to it that the source routes it properly whether
it comes from above or below and that the originator of an offline despatch
from below studies the org board. On this last you must also be sure the
org board reflects the actuality of the real organization and is
functioning. When you skip doing that you can't of course get offline
routing cured as there isn't a visible line. Nobody has put the org board
there to be known. Hence, lots of offline despatches. On offpolicy
despatches, you yourself must be familiar with policy in order to tell if
something is covered by policy. In order to get somebody to follow policy
you must of course be sure that the policy is available and that you have
done everything you could to help get policy easily found and known. Time
spent on the study of policy is very well spent. And when I ask for
clarification of or existing policies in your area you should give that top
priority as you won't be able to do your job unless you help on policy when
needed. And the way to help on policy is to write up all the policies for
your hat or area and send them to me if I ask for them so I can review and
publish them. A group cannot function at all without agreed upon policy and
of course it can never grow. Its In Baskets get too full. There's no way to
get a post filled and working. There's no real comm, only Dev-T. The
resulting confusion stops any expansion. So the org stays tiny and works
madly and stays poor. No policy. All Dev-T. Each person present wears all
the hats and also wears them all differently. That's not an org. It's a
bunch of auditors pooling their confusions. We are suckers for origination
acceptance. Being trained auditors we are conditioned to letting people
originate. But that's in session. You're not auditing when you're an
executive. An improper despatch is actually not an origin at all. It's a
confession that one isn't on staff or should be trained to come on staff.
Such a "staff member" is still a field auditor knocking around in the org
if he doesn't know policy. Critical, blundering, creating Dev-T, fouling up
lines. Pretty grim. An executive's job is first to put an org there by
providing comm lines amongst the group and from the org to public and
public to org. That's the first, the very first responsibility of an
executive whether Assn Sec or PE Director or D of T or any executive.
ROUTING When routing arrangements are made inside the org-from staff member
to staff member-we call it ORGANIZING. When routing arrangements are made
or communication invited from org to public and public to org we call it
PROMOTION. The executive duties of an executive are primarily concerned
then, with ORGANIZING and PROMOTION and seeing that the arranged actions
are executed. Having put the lines there, the executive must see that they
truly exist and go on existing. We call this "getting people's hats on" and
"keeping people's hats on" inside the org, and public to org and org' to
public we call "making sure promotion is executed." The bulk of any
executive's job is seeing that things are executed. Seeing that lines are
followed, policy followed, promotion carried out. Even the D of T, making
sure students are taught only straight technology, is executing policy. The
D of P, seeing that pcs get gains, is really only following policy and
making sure it is followed. For a very senior executive to actually forward
further on a query he has received from a staff member the answer to which
is already covered by policy is a very serious thing. Why? Because the
action says this senior executive doesn't know policy, or at the very least
isn't putting on the hats of his staff members and juniors and so hasn't
got a functioning org. For a very senior executive to forward an already
misrouted despatch is a confession of the most gross ignorance of his or
her own org board. HARD WORK It is not saintly then for an executive to
merely work hard. In fact, where that work is mainly invested in handling
the In Basket, that hard work is just causing hard work in other places
too. It is quite stupid to get tied down to an In Basket full of staff
despatches. The only way this can happen (countless staff queries or infos)
is by failing to spot offline and offpolicy despatches and return them to
source, saying "Misrouted. See Org Board," for offline. Or saying for
offpolicy, "Policy already exists on this. Look it up, please," or saying
"This is contrary to general planning. Please look up recent policy
letters." MAKE THEM WORK The surest cure for such floods of despatches is
always to make the source work harder because he or she goofed by sending
an offline or offpolicy despatch. Some offline offpolicy despatches are
originated out of pure laziness. "Takes too long to look it up, I'll ask
the HCO Sec" is the usual line of thought. The poor HCO Sec, already too
overworked to look up policy, gives in desperation an unusual solution.
This really messes it up. The solution given can only be as good as the
data offered and if that data is wrong, the solution is very wrong, and as
the query originated in laziness it is probably wrong in data and so any
effort to answer it at all will only louse things up. Hence, it is contrary
to the best interests of the org to give the source the proper routing for
offline despatches. If you do, you don't handle the real trouble-the staff
member doesn't know it's an org yet and so will not be able to do his or
her job. You must get that staff member familiar with the org board or
you'll have betrayed the org. You see, other staff members also suffer with
the offline originations from this person. And as an executive you aren't
protecting your own people from offline origins if you don't handle the
person doing it when spotted. Cure it and you help not just your In Basket-
you'll take a very heavy load off other staff members too. You see, yours
isn't the only In Basket in the org, and if you are an executive you're the
one who must handle the routing for only you have the immediate authority
to do so. Expansion depends chiefly on your taking that action. On
offpolicy despatches, by which we mean the staff member doesn't know his
policy and so does things contrary to it or wants to know if it is policy,
why should you study up your policy letters? You are probably fairly well
up on them. The person who isn't is the source of that despatch. So you
must make sure that that person gets industrious on the subject of policy
and burns some midnight oil on old and new policies and general planning.
So again, by your looking it all up for the offender, you cripple your
organization by leaving uncared for an area in it that will goof. And that
staff member's goof can destroy the whole org! That's no exaggeration. Why
are you working so hard as an executive to put the org there and make it
grow if there aren't elements around that are destroying it? If there were
no such elements your org would just grow and all your work would be
promotional or service. That you are always continuously creating your
department, unit or org or defending it somehow, means there must be
something knocking it down. The symptom of that something is the offline or
offpolicy despatch. For you to be totally effective you yourself must know
routing (the org board) and know policy and the general planning in
progress. And for an org board to be known it must exist and be real and
must say what departments, units and staff members do. And for policy to be
known it must exist and be findable. To make minor changes on an org board
and double assign (2 or more hats to one person) is quite usual in an org.
To make major changes such as Adcomm in Charge of HCO or training done by
the Accounts Unit would be a gross violation of policy. And so your org
board must to that degree be a standard org board. But you still have to do
routing on it and provide routing for it. To invent policies or supplement
policies without sending them through channels as completed staff work
(which means routed to the board, with all related policy letters clipped
to the requested change and the new policy letter all written ready for
issue) will break down the Scientology lines in that area. You don't
believe it? Australia got into its whole enquiry mess because the senior
executives either did not know or follow the long standing policy
concerning the prompt return of money to a dissatisfied pc. That cost the
org thousands and thousands, a year of grief, and risked getting
Scientology banned in Australia. A policy not known or altered is death.
Not from me but from the community in which the org operates. Still don't
believe it? Washington D.C. either did not know or did not follow the
explicit policy concerning receiving favours from preclears but only half-
heartedly reported them to an uninformed HCO which didn't know or didn't
follow the full intent and spirit of the policy and never told me as was
implied in the original policy letter. The wife of that person giving the
favours brought on the whole FDA mess that cost us tens of thousands and
two years of grief and almost knocked out Scientology in the U.S. Policy is
survival for a group. ONLY PRACTICAL POLICY AGREED UPON AND FOLLOWED
PROVIDES THE ARC THAT IS THE LIFE ITSELF OF ANY GROUP. It's the mores, the
policies, whatever you want to call them that makes a group or an
organization alive and breathing. Bad policy, bad mores, and you have a
dying group, a dying organization. Governments whose policies are unreal
are perishing. They act like criminals. There's where anyone gets his
distaste for "policy"-he has looked at the policies of dying groups and is
imitating how they are regarded. But as in control there is good control
and "bad control" so in policy there is good policy and bad policy. It has
a bad name with some people. It bores them. They also kill groups. So if
your organization is going to live it must have real, living policy and
respect it and use it. All right, so we're serious now. Org boards and
policies must exist and be followed and the person who makes sure of that
is a Scientology executive. The clue to violations is the continuously full
In Basket, whether moving or not. If an executive's In Basket is always
full, then he or she either isn't (a) working at all or (b) is working like
mad but is not handling offline or offpolicy despatches by getting the
lines in and the policy known. You can't escape it, there it is. There is
nothing wrong with working hard as an executive. I do. There is nothing
wrong with having lots of traffic through an In Basket. A busy org does.
There is everything wrong with an executive having a lot of staff traffic
because 99% of it is offline and offpolicy and if you don't act to correct
it you not only don't have time to breathe, you also will wind up with no
income and no org. Fact.
L. RON HUBBARD
LRH:jw.rd Copyright c 1964 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 31 JANUARY 1965
Remimeo Sthil Staff
DEV-T (Adds to HCO Pol Ltr Nov. 17, 1964)
The commonest cause of OFFLINE despatches is: A staff member writes a
despatch to himself but routes it to somebody else. Example: Registrar
writes a despatch to the Org Sec asking how to meet a quota of interviews.
This is Dev-T because it is offline. Why is it offline? The staff member
responsible for increasing interviews is the Registrar, not the Org Sec.
Therefore the despatch should be routed to the Registrar and routing it to
anyone else is misrouting. Informing the Org Sec, "I am doing so and so to
increase the number of interviews" is quite in order, but it's a despatch
containing a report, requiring no answer. The correct routing of a query
about increasing interviews would be to the Registrar. Thus, the above
example's routing would be the Registrar to the Registrar. When a staff
member generates a lot of despatches about his post, these are usually
misrouted if they go to anyone else but himself. Since who else should wear
that hat? Not the Org Sec or Assn Sec. Not the HCO Sec. Only the staff
member himself or herself. In orgs a goodly number of people think staff
members senior to them also wear their hats. This is definitely not true.
The Assn Sec or Org Sec does not wear every other hat in the org. If he
does, he is a pretty poor organizer. And if he lets staff force him to,
then he isn't much of a leader. You can detect people who fear
responsibility or consequences of their most ordinary actions by the number
of despatches they send others which should only have gone to the staff
member himself or herself. It's the figures on the weekly report sheet, the
volume of work accomplished, the resume of results that inform others about
a hat and the activities and effectiveness of the person wearing it. An
Org/Assn Sec only needs to look at these reports, not his in-basket, to
know if posts are being held. It may make one feel grand and responsible
when others must come to one for help on their jobs but it sure doesn't
make a strong org to have "what-do-I-dos" flying up to the head of the org
day and night. People exist who do their jobs without a lot of Dev-T about
how to do them, what to decide, how to think. And people exist who do their
jobs without getting everyone else in trouble. OTHER PEOPLE'S HATS There is
another type of Dev-T which one encounters. And that is the origination of
comm that should have been originated by someone else. This has several
guises. You see it in a usual form in Academies where some student is
always asking questions "so that the others will understand". The student
himself or herself understood the instructor but asks a question so "the
others will understand also". This is, of course, a student trying to wear
the instructor's hat or another student's student hat. I can usually detect
this one and break it right there with "Are you asking because you don't
get it or because you think the others haven't?" Such a student can
lengthen study hours horribly without helping anyone a bit. A staff member
occasionally tries to originate for another hat than his or her own. It is
easily detected. The despatch has to do with the Academy but is from the
HGC, etc. Such a despatch is usually misrouted also. It is sent to a
department head or the HCO Sec or somewhere. Trying to handle it gets
pretty deadly as it's a double snarl. The originator shouldn't have
originated it and also should have sent it elsewhere if he or she did
originate it. If the HGC thinks it has to wear the Academy hat then the
despatch should go to the Academy and nowhere else. At least send it to the
hat it most concerns. This gets even more snarled when it jumps an org-to
wit, an HGC staff member originates a despatch for the Academy and sends it
to, let us say, the National Central Org. In the other org, unfamiliarity
with the org board of the originating org can cause action to be taken. It
isn't noticed that the HGC is talking for the Academy. When action is taken
other than returning the off-origin despatch to its sender, a great many
evils can result. The least of them is that it gets the sender in trouble
when acted upon. Example: A staff auditor proposes to the Assn Sec that
students be trained better in 8c because of a recent HGC flub. The Assn Sec
jumps on the D of T. The D of T privately pounds the staff auditor into the
ground. Ill feeling in orgs usually stems from these off-origin despatches.
In the above example, the staff auditor should have taken it up
emphatically on the basis of a flub in the HGC with the D of P who then
would take it up with the D of T still on the basis of an HGC flub. Then it
has a chance of straightening out. You see, lacking data, the person
originating an off-origin despatch usually assigns wrong cause. In the
above example it may have been certification at fault, not the Academy at
all. One can drown in a sea of errors on these off-origin despatches.
Basically what ails governments is their dependence on spy reports, police
reports, etc. The reporting person does not wear the hat which should have
originated. When a staff member does not himself originate when he or she
should, it will show up in the OIC reports and in emergencies. It is
handled by putting on the person's hat, auditing or personnel transfers,
not by off-origin despatches. Did you know you can let an entheta despatch
drop right there and create less entheta by doing so? Try it sometime. Not
all off-origin despatches are entheta, of course. Part of this type of
despatch is of course off-zone. Perth originating for Sydney. Or Los
Angeles originating for New York. Or Assoc Sec London (as once happened
years ago) doing business only in Australia. Or LA getting pcs only from
Nevada. Here one sees somebody operating for the wrong zone or for only
part of their whole zone. On a smaller look, a staff member doing only part
of his job produces a similar result. And somebody doing another staff
member's job is another version of it. Off-origin despatches or work can
make an awful lot of Dev-T-not always pleasant. ORG BOARD DEV-T An out of
date Org Board can cause Dev-T. A staff that doesn't have a well done Org
Board cannot help but make Dev-T. An Org Board is what we use instead of
Appointment lists inside orgs. If it isn't posted on the Org Board, it
hasn't been appointed. Why? Because an appointment is effective only if its
work will be routed to it. If nobody knows about an appointment, then how
can anything but Dev-T occur? Thus prime preventers of Dev-T are: 1. A well
done Org Board. 2. A complete Org Board containing all appointments. 3. A
staff checked out on the Org Board. 4. All new staff checked out on the Org
Board. 5. No appointments existing that don't appear on the Org Board. A
lot of Dev-T occurs because some people are insufficiently aware of the
existence of an org. They think "we're all here together working". They
don't realize everybody in the org does a different job than the rest.
There is no one so eager to reorganize everything as a new staff member who
has yet to discover the org board and its purposes. And there is a flood of
Dev-T from anyone who: 1. Doesn't know the org board well and who 2. Hasn't
got his own hat on. Obviously, to reduce Dev-T and keep one's In-Basket
within reason, one must: 1. Have a complete and well-done Org Board up to
date and known, and 2. Get individual hats on. Otherwise people will
misroute continuously-sending their own bits to others and flooding wrong
others with despatches. HATS Given a good Org Board with the purpose of
each post stated and the whole thing well known to staff, lengthy and
complex hats become less important. Hats, complete ones, are important and
of value. But did you know that a staff member will do best if he has to
evolve his own hat before he reads up on it or afterwards? The way to do
this is on a Clay Table. Take a very fundamental statement of the staff
member's job-a complete, simple statement. Then, have the staff member: (a)
Work out the org in relation to the field and public in clay; (b) Work out
his job in clay in relation to the rest of the org; (c) Work out his job in
clay in relation to his job and himself. After a staff member has done that
(labelling every bit of everything he makes), and then done (a), (b) and
(c) again, most of those misapprehensions and not-knows that cause Dev-T
will be gone. And it pays off in the time spent by increased effective
volume and decreased Dev-T. Very little Dev-T is caused by viciousness or
mean intent. It's just the accumulations of (1) Not-knowns and (2) Afraid
to dos. Cure them.
L. RON HUBBARD
LRH:jw.rd Copyright c 1965 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 8 FEBRUARY 1965
Remimeo Sthil Staff
DEV-T ANALYSIS (Continues HCO Pol Ltrs of 17 Nov '64 and 31 Jan'65)
Probably the basic reason for the expansion of bureaucracies is Dev-T.
When Admin staff in one of our orgs begins to exceed Tech staff then it is
obvious that a lot of Dev-T is on the lines. Proof of this is the continual
finding that an increase in Admin staff does not lead to an increase in
income but on the contrary often heralds an era of decreased gross income.
Within reason, you must not increase Admin staff numbers until you have
thoroughly hunted down all Dev-T and taken adequate remedies for it. When a
government sees a lot of despatches it thinks it needs a lot of people.
These, making more Dev-T, then seem to need many more people, etc. The cure
for a lot of despatches without a lot of new income showing up is a brisk
analysis of the org's comm lines. This is simply done. 1. Look around for
constantly full and not emptied In baskets. When you find one in which the
traffic does not move, look the post over carefully and decide which one of
the following to do on the basis of what you find on that post (a) educate
or (b) replace. If, when (a) is done, the basket again remains as before,
do (b). 2. Look into people's baskets for despatch and letter dates. If you
find a basket where these are quite old, find out why and make up your mind
what to do about it on the basis of what you find. 3. Look into drawers for
cached despatches, letters, etc. If you find a drawer full, realize
somebody is staying clean on the boards by hiding what should be visible.
Find out why this violation is occurring and act accordingly. 4. Look over
the traffic flow of the principals of the Org (Assn/Org Sec, HCO Sec) and
analyze their traffic on the basis of the number of offline, offpolicy, off-
origin despatches. Note what staff members are doing these and act
accordingly. 5. Make the principals of the org keep logs of offline,
offpolicy, off-origin despatches and also bodies brought with despatches.
After one week, take these logs and, as they spot the Dev-T artists in the
org, act accordingly. The main thing to know is never get reasonable about
Dev-T. If it doesn't cure by education or other means, then you have no
choice but to act. The sooner you act, the better for everyone. NO WORK The
Anglo-Saxon race has a crazy spot on the subject of work. The whole
ambition is to not work. This is quite at variance with several other races
and normal thetan behaviour. Easily the greatest source of Dev-T is non-
compliance or no-comm. You can say all you want about despatches and
analyze them thoroughly and with benefit to all. But the most deadly
conditions, the things most likely to produce the greatest floods of
traffic in the long run are non-compliance and no-comm. One or the other of
these is the basis of any emergency. So in analyzing traffic to increase
income and efficiency, be very alert to the points of non-compliance and no-
comm. In our ordinary despatch system these are not easily spotted as we
seldom keep copies of our despatches. The way to locate these spots is by
questioning the principals of the org and getting a list of: 1. Emergencies
of the past 3 months and what departments and personnel were most closely
connected to them. 2. Present time problems of the principals with the org
and the names of the staff members most closely connected with these.
Compare lists 1 and 2. You will find that there are names common to both
these lists. Query what despatches remain unanswered by these persons or
what orders have not been complied with. This selects out one or two
people. You now have the basic sources of Dev-T in the org which cause more
visible Dev-T to build up. Act accordingly. And don't get "reasonable".
Principals seldom realize that their softness on bad Dev-T offenders works
great hardship on other staff members. The real overt is against other
staff members by not acting effectively to locate and reduce Dev-T. As an
example, I know of an instance where two staff members' non-compliance and
neglect of orders cost an org?20,000 cash in one year alone and brought the
org to a point where only heroic action saved it. Only two out of 50 were
responsible. The other 48 were working their heads off trying to make a go
of things. These two, by non-compliance with despatches, with no-comm,
sabotaged all promotion and the entire PO system and nobody could tell how
it was happening. When they departed, not only the losses vanished but org
income doubled. So don't ever get soft where you see non-compliance or
unanswered despatches. You're looking at trouble and future emergencies
that may wipe out the org. DEV-T ANALYSIS You can pretty well size up a
whole org just by watching its despatch lines and baskets. If you were very
skilled at this, you really wouldn't need to move out of the communicator's
chair to spot every bad and good point in the org. Without analysis by Dev-
T, an org is carried on the backs of a few desperate staff members. Why do
it the hard way? Watch and handle Dev-T sources and you'll be able to
breathe again.
L. RON HUBBARD
LRH:jw.rd Copyright c 1965 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 13 OCTOBER 1965
Remimeo
ALL EXECUTIVES
DEV-T DATA EXECUTIVE RESPONSIBILITY
Executives may not OK anything done or to be done below their level
unless their immediate junior has also stated or attested with initial that
it is OK. Unless one can fix responsibility for actions there is no
responsibility anywhere and the whole show goes to pot. Never let a junior
say, "Is this OK?" Always require the junior to state or initial, "This is
Okay" on all work, actions or projects. An organization permitting a lot of
"Is this OK?" will soon go to pieces. Things are or aren't OK. Make them
say so. Hang them if it's a false attestation. "Is this okay?" is Dev-T and
should be chitted as such.
L. RON HUBBARD
LRH:ml.rd Copyright c 1965 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 5 JANUARY 1968 Remimeo DEV-T SERIES, PART OF
OVERFILLED IN BASKET BAD NEWS If an executive is trying to do his or her
job and looking ahead and handling things and yet is being hit constantly
with bad news and problems and has his In basket loaded continually (a). HE
IS GETTING NON COMPLIANCE AND FALSE REPORTS and (b). HIS JUNIORS ARE NOT
GETTING HIS ORDERS EXECUTED and (c). HIS JUNIORS ARE NOT PUTTING IN ETHICS
BUT LEAVING IT ALL TO HIM. What he sees is bad news and hard to handle
items and an overfilled In basket. He does not see (a) (b) and (c) above as
they are out of view and often blurred by efforts by juniors to LOOK and
SOUND active in his sight while actually really loafing and goofing or
outright betraying him. This is the most senior datum in all Dev-T policy-
that IF YOU ARE BEING HIT BACK BY LINES YOU ARE TRYING TO HANDLE then YOU
HAVE UNSEEN NON COMPLIANCE AND FALSE REPORTS ON YOUR LINES. Therefore, to
remedy this situation, when an Executive is being knocked about by his
lines, bad news, disasters, etc. and he feels PTS he must apply this
formula mercilessly (A) MAKE THE PENALTIES FOR NON COMPLIANCE AND FALSE
REPORTS TOO GRUESOME TO BE FACED AND ENFORCE THEM (B) LOCATE AND DISCIPLINE
THE JUNIORS WHO DO NOT EXECUTE OR DO NOT GET ONE'S ORDERS EXECUTED and (C)
SACK EVERY JUNIOR WHO WILL NOT PUT IN ETHICS IN THEIR OWN AREA ON THEIR
OWN. The only reason an otherwise competent and industrious executive gets
hit by bad news and has an overloaded in basket lies in (a) (b) and (c)
above and the only effective remedy is (A) (B) and (C). It takes far more
ethics and far steeper enforced penalties to make an organization work than
Scientologists have been using. If you don't learn and use the above you
will not be a big success and your life will be miserable and your post
untenable. We work in a jungle of non compliance and false reports called
the wog world. Our ethics must be proportional to our ability to do good or
we will all vanish. You must give attention to this Pol Ltr or you'll never
cure the Dev-T on your lines. It all comes from Non Compliance, False
Reports and your juniors patty-caking around and not getting in Ethics on
their own, no matter HOW it may look from your post. Of course your lawyers
and accountants "know best" and have OUT ETHICS and therefore give you the
most trouble as they are outside your control perimeter as "experts" and so
you have more legal and accounts problems than others. This Pol Ltr still
applies to them too. You CAN function as an Executive if you do your job
and do (A) (B) and (C) above. Otherwise, lord help you, your juniors will
get you shot by (a) (b) and (c). A good fellow is a dead good fellow when
he's dead. So being a good fellow is NOT the solution to getting a job
done. The solution for an Executive is (A) (B) & (C). L. RON HUBBARD
Founder LRH:jp.rd Copyright c 1968 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 27 JANUARY 1969
Remimeo
DEV-T SUMMARY LIST (Add to Dev-T Policies)
The following list is a summary of items which Develop (Increase)
Traffic. It is based on years of experience with the subject of Dev-T. 1.
FALSE REPORTS A report that is false can cause greatly increased useless
action including at times Bs of I, despatches verifying it, etc. 2. NON-
COMPLIANCES Failure to comply with an order can set an emergency flap going
which crowds the lines with despatches. One consequence of non-compliance
when repeated over a long period is to move a large number of Targets into
PT in a sort of frantic jam. Catastrophes can occur because of non-
compliance. 3. ALTERED COMPLIANCE Something was introduced or changed in
the orders which made them non-optimum. This sometimes wastes and repeats
all earlier traffic. 4. NO REPORTS The scramble to find out if something
has been done increases traffic. This includes lack of data forwarded as it
should have been. It causes as well anxiety and uncertainty. 5. COMM
FORMULA UNUSED All orders out answers in are on the Comm Formula. Failing
to answer the question asked can triple traffic. 6. INFO FAILURE Those in
charge fail to brief their juniors. These then have no idea of what's going
on and develop other traffic in conflict. Reversely, juniors fail to inform
seniors of data they have. 7. LACK OF CSW Failure to forward an assembled
package of information on any given situation, plan or emergency or failure
to forward complete information on any despatch, sufficiently complete to
require only an approved or not approved, slows down approval and action
and develops traffic. It often requires returning for completed staff work,
or the senior concerned must take over the person's hat and assemble the
missing data using his own time and lines. And thus traffic develops. 8.
SUPPRESSION ON LINES Lines get closed by arbitraries so that vital info
does not get through or vital action is not ordered.
9. CROSS ORDERS Juniors issue so many orders unknown to a senior and
across his lines that a senior's orders are obscured or lost. Things get
very confused, very active but non-productive. 10. PRESENT TIME ORDERS ONLY
Basic Programmes or standing orders or policy go out by not being enforced.
PT orders only are being forwarded or handled. This eventually balls up in
a big wad and an organization vanishes. Primary Targets go out. 11. NON-
EXISTENT TARGETING Targets are not set, major targets are unknown. Actions
are then unproductive. 12. UNREAL TARGETS Targets are set and worked on
which are not derived from any useful major target. 13. CROSS TARGETS The
senior's target system is neglected due to conflicting targets being set on
lower levels. 14. BUGGED TARGETS A target develops bugs in its forwarding
which are not seen or reported. The target stalls. A furious traffic burst
may eventually occur to redo it and catch it up. 15. HOBBY HORSES A staff
member can "ride his favourite hobby horse", ordering and complying only in
his favourite area, neglecting areas of greater importance. His orders
often cross-order and distract from important targets and create Dev-T,
vital actions being neglected. 16. STALEDATED ORDERS AND DISPATCHES
Staledating delays action, often important, and creates anxiety and
emergencies. New (developed) traffic results in an attempt to get an answer
or compliance. 17. FORMULA EVASION Areas or persons fail to follow the
conditions formulas assigned or actually indicated and pursue the wrong or
no formula. 18. INCORRECT CONDITIONS Incorrect conditions are assigned or
assumed with consequent ball up of lines. 19. HAT DUMPING This is referring
everything to someone else. It greatly increases traffic without producing.
20. CHANNEL SKIPS Something is not forwarded in channels but skips vital
points and if acted on confuses the area of the points skipped. 21.
VIOLATED PURPOSE A Division, Dept or staff member or materiel used for
things it was not organized to do. It disrupts its normal lines.
22. BACKLOGGING If traffic or bodies begin to be backlogged one can
stall completely just handling the queries about the backlog without
getting anything really done. 23. OFF ORIGIN (Statements and Despatches) A
terminal originates something not its hat. 24.OFFLINE Despatches or orders
are passed in a manner to deny info on record. 25. INCORRECT ORGANIZATION
The Comm System or procedures are not organized so as to be easily used.
They are either not organized at all or are made too complex to be useful.
26. ORG BOARD DEV-T An out-of-date Org Board can cause Dev-T. A staff that
doesn't have a well done Org Board cannot help but make Dev-T. A staff that
doesn't know the Org Board will make Dev-T. 27. UNTRAINED STAFF Staff not
grooved in on the lines mainly deal in Dev-T and although they even look
busy seldom accomplish much. 28. UNPRODUCTIVE PERSONNEL Keeping a personnel
on a post who is a flagrant Dev-T source. 29. PEOPLE WHO PRESENT PROBLEMS
Problems presented by juniors when solved by a senior cause Dev-T because
the source of the problem usually won't use the presented solution either.
30. HAVING TO HAVE BEFORE THEY CAN DO Projects stall "because of FP" or
"because it would be nice to have a _____". 31. PERMITTING DEV-T The
biggest single goof anyone can make is failing to recognize something as
Dev-T and going on to handle it anyway. One's basket soon overflows. The
reason for "overwork" and "heavy traffic" is usually traceable to
permitting Dev-T to exist without understanding it or attempting to put the
Dev-T right. 32. LACK OF EXECUTIVE RESPONSIBILITY Is this OK? Executives
may not OK anything done or to be done below their level unless their
immediate junior has also stated or attested with an initial that it is OK.
Unless one can fix responsibility for actions there is no responsibility
anywhere and the whole show goes to pot. Never let a junior say "Is this
OK?" Always make him state or initial "This is OK" on all work, actions or
projects. "Is this OK?" is Dev-T and should be chitted as such.
33. EXECUTIVE ENTURBULENCE An executive is seldom hit unless he has
had non-compliance on his lines. He is almost never hit if he polices Dev-
T. When an executive is hit by a catastrophe, he should handle it and AT
ONCE CHECK UP ON DEV-T AND HANDLE IT. I keep a daily log of Dev-T and who
and what every time I find my lines heavy or there is a threatened
catastrophe. Then I handle the majority offenders. 34. USING DEV-T AS AN
EXCUSE TO CUT LINES An executive must really know what Dev-T is and really
say what the exact Dev-T was in order to reject or handle Dev-T. 35.
CATASTROPHES A catastrophe occurs by lack of prediction of a possible
circumstance. Those things planned for do not become catastrophes.
Catastrophes USUALLY FOLLOW A PERIOD OF EXCESSIVE DEV-T.
_______________
The above make a great many motions necessary where only the one
correct one was needed. Thus a crew or Org can look very busy when it is
only handling Dev-T. It will get nowhere. Real Targets are not done.
Tempers go bad. Staff and crew are overworked. Also when I get Dev-T on my
lines I know that it is despite various screenings. If I get it, then it
must be 100 times that for the fellow who has no such admin defenses. I
routinely run a Dev-T check on my lines and advise all officers and
executives to do the same. The way to handle this is REVIEW and CLASSIFY
all targets into their types as per three recent Policy Letters. Find and
note all instances of Dev-T as above with the person who did them. Turn in
KNOWLEDGE REPORTS or ethics chits concerning them. Concentrate on
COMPLETING proper targets set as per the recent Policy Letters. ONLY REPORT
COMPLETIONS. Work to get COMPLETIONS. Then we'll get the job done.
L. RON HUBBARD Founder
LRH:ldm.ei.rd Copyright c 1969 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 30 JANUARY 1969 Issue II
Remimeo
DEV-T SUMMARY LIST ADDITIONS Adds to HCO P/L 27 Jan '69 (add to Dev-T
Policies)
An actual example of Dev-T (Developed Traffic) follows: A warm wind
came up and the heating system on the "MV APOLLO" was no longer required to
be on. A message was sent to the Engine Room to "turn off the heat". The
order was not complied with. The order was repeated some time later to a
steward to send a messenger to the Engine Room and tell them to "turn the
heat off the fans". The messenger was not sent by the steward, but the
steward instead told the I & R (Inspections and.Reports) of the Engine Room
who was making his inspection rounds, to turn down the heat. Again the
order had to be repeated, this time to a messenger who went to the Engine
Room and gave the order to "turn the heat off the fans" to the Engineer of
the Watch. He replied, "We turned it down a short while ago!" The messenger
accepted this ALMOST and reported back to the senior executive, who again
had to send the messenger to repeat the order to "turn off the heat". This
time the messenger returned with the compliance that the heat had been
turned off. FOUR TIMES the message had to be repeated before compliance was
reported. Developed Traffic.
______________
From the above some new forms of Dev-T can be isolated. 36. ACCEPTING
AN ALMOST The messenger accepted the ALMOST of turning down the heat. The
order was to turn it off. An executive or communicator or messenger who
accepts and forwards an "almost" is permitting Dev-T. Orders given are to
be executed and reported DONE, not to be nearly done or almost done. A
communicator can often be tripped up by this form of Dev-T. It is most
easily spotted by insisting that the original order or orders be returned
with the compliance so that any terminal on the line can tell at a glance
what was ordered, and what was done. 37. FAILURE TO GET AN ORDER CLARIFIED
Upon questioning it was found that the messenger had not fully understood
what was required and passed this uncertainty on to the Engineer of the
Watch. 38. IRRELEVANT INFORMATION The Engineer of the Watch, when told to
"Turn the heat off the fans", gave the messenger the irrelevant
information, "We turned it down a short while ago".
A later check revealed that he did indeed comply and turn the heat off
but failed to inform the messenger of this, giving her only the irrelevant
information that they had earlier turned it down. This form of Dev-T can
also take the form of forwarding to a senior large quantities of irrelevant
information, jamming his lines, and reducing his productiveness. The
opposite of this, of course, is failure to inform one's seniors of relevant
data (see P/L 27 Jan '69, Dev-T Summary point 6). 39. REASONABLENESS A
staff member or executive can be "reasonable" and accept reasons why
something cannot be done, accept incomplete cycles as complete, and fail to
follow through and get completions. All of which results in further
traffic. This form of Dev-T is best handled by knowing and applying HCOB 19
August '67, "The Supreme Test" [Volume 7, page 362]. THE SUPREME TEST OF A
THETAN IS HIS ABILITY TO MAKE THINGS GO RIGHT. 40. FAILURE TO TERMINATEDLY
HANDLE, REFERRAL The only tremendous error an organization makes, next to
inspection before the fact, is failing to terminatedly handle situations
rapidly. The fault of an organization's woffle, woffle, woffle, Joe won't
take responsibility for it, it's got to go someplace else, and all that
sort of thing, is that it continues a situation. What you should specialize
in is terminating the end of a situation, not refer it to someone else.
Complete the action now. 41. FAILURE TO COMPLETE A CYCLE OF ACTION and
REFERRAL One of your most fruitful sources of Dev-T is your own double
work. You pick up a despatch or a piece of work, look it over and then put
it aside to do later, then later you pick it up and read it again and only
then do you do it. This of course doubles your traffic just like that. If
you do every piece of work that comes your way WHEN it comes your way and
not after a while, if you always take the initiative and take action, not
refer it, you never get any traffic back unless you've got a psycho on the
other end. You can keep a comm line in endless ferment by pretending that
the easiest way not to work is to not handle things or to refer things.
Everything you don't handle comes back and bites. Everything you refer has
to be done when it comes back to you. Complete the action, do it now. 42.
FAILURE TO RECORD AN ORDER Failing to make an adequate record of an order
given, losing or misplacing the order can result in endless Dev-T. The
original orders being lost or not recorded at all, wrong items are
purchased, incorrect actions are taken, cross orders are given, and a
tremendous waste of executive time and money occurs straightening the
matter out. This is one of the most serious sources of Dev-T. 43. UNCLEAR
ORDERS An executive giving an unclear order puts uncertainty and confusion
on the line right at the very beginning of the cycle of command. The safe
way on an important programme or action is to Target it. 44. MISUNDERSTOOD
ORDERS Orders misunderstood by the recipient will not be properly complied
with as the order was misunderstood. The incorrect or no action following
will require further traffic to correct. As an executive, originate clear
precise instructions and orders. As a junior, duplicate the order, and
never fail to clarify if you have mis - understood. 45. RELAYING AN ORDER
IN A CONFUSING MANNER Communicators and messengers can create Dev-T and
foul up actions by poor relay of information. 46. CLEANING CLEANS Doing
something that is already done or ordering something to be done already
done. 47. REPEATED TRAFFIC The same traffic repeated to the same executive
is Dev-T. Often takes the form of information or compliance reported by
telex and then the same information being sent by despatch. There are times
when a telex is followed by a more lengthy despatch or report, but this
should only occur when extra information is really needed. 48. FAILURE TO
WEAR YOUR HAT A person on one post not doing that post but doing every
other post creates endless Dev-T, all despatches and origins being off-
origin and he covering the hole of his own post. The person himself is the
Dev-T. 49. UNUSUAL SOLUTIONS Requests for authority to depart from the
usual are dangerous when okayed as they then set up areas of difference and
cause policy to wander and misfit at the joints. Juniors who propose
unusual solutions generally don't know the policy or orders anyway. The
proper thing to do is order a checkout on the appropriate policy. 50.
REMOVING PARTICLES OFF THE LINE Apart from being a serious offense, taking
comm particles off another's desk or out of their In Basket or off the comm
lines causes Dev-T, and lost time in searching for the missing particles
and can sabotage projects or actions, vital data being missing. 51. SLOW
COMM LINES Despatches held up on lines cause other despatches to be
originated about the same subject, causing Dev-T to both sender and
recipient. The power of an organization is directly proportional to its
speed of particle flow (letters, despatches, telexes, bodies).
Ken Delderfield LRH Comm Aide CS-7 for L. RON HUBBARD Founder
LRH:KD:ldm.ei.rd Copyright c 1969 by L. RonHubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 27 OCTOBER 1969
Remimeo
Admin Know-How No. 23
DEV T
The entire, complete and only major source of Dev T is ignorance or
failure to grasp CONFUSION AND THE STABLE DATUM as covered fully in
"Problems of Work" (and LRH Tapes of 1956). Unless an executive or staff
member fully grasps the basic principles of Confusion and a Stable Datum
then the org board is completely over his head, the reason for posts is not
understood and Dev T becomes routine. A post on the org board is the STABLE
POINT. If it is not held by someone it will generate confusion. If the
person that is holding it isn't really holding it, the confusion inherent
in that area on the org board zooms all over the place near and far. Any
executive getting Dev T knows at once what posts are not held because Dev T
is the confusion that should have been handled in that area by someone on
post. With that stable terminal not stable, Dev T shoots about. Excessive
transfers in an org promote fantastic Dev T as the posts do not really get
held as people are on them too briefly. "Musical chairs" (excessive
transfers) can destroy an org or area. The remedy is to get people trained
up (OEC) to handle their posts, to get people on post who do handle their
posts. An essential part of such training is a study of "Problems of Work"
and a full grasp of how a stable terminal handles and prevents Confusion.
If the person cannot fully grasp this principle, he is below the ability to
conceive of terminals and barely able to perceive lines. He cannot
communicate since there are no terminals to him. REMOTE AREAS If an area
remote from an executive does not contain a stable point to which he can
send his comm and get it handled, then his comm only enters Dev T into the
area and he gets back floods of despatches and problems but no real
handling. The area is not organized and does not have people in it who have
grasped "Problems of Work" or how it applies to an Org Board or even why
there is an Org Board. Communicating into a disorganized area without first
organizing it to have at least one stable terminal is foolishness. An Org
Board is that arrangement of persons, lines and actions which classifies
types of confusions and gives a stable terminal to each type. It is as
effective as its people can conceive of terminals and understand the basic
principle of Confusions and Stable Data. A good executive arranges
personnel and organization to handle types of actions and confusions. He
does not broadly Comm into disorganized areas except to organize them.
Any area which gives an executive excessively Developed Traffic (Dev
T) is an area where the persons supposed to be the stable terminals in that
area are not holding their posts and do NOT understand what they are or why
and do not know what an Org Board is and have never understood the
Scientology fundamental known as Confusion and the Stable Datum. They are
NOT doing their post or organizing their areas. An executive's evidence of
this is the receipt from there of Dev T. The executive's action is to get
somebody THERE, get him to understand Confusion and the Stable Datum and
how it applies to posts as Stable Terminals, get him trained up and use
that now stable point to handle further confusions. If an executive goes on
handling Dev T of people who are not stable terminals that handle their
areas, HE WILL BE FORCED TO WORK HARDER THAN IF THE POST WERE EMPTY. At
least if it were empty, he would get only the confusion of that area. As it
is if the post is improperly held and wobbly he gets not only the area
confusion but also the enturbulation of the wobbly incumbent. Volumes could
be written about this subject. But there is no reason whatever not to be
able to grasp the fundamentals concerning confusion and stable data,
confusion and stable terminals, apply it to Org Boards, to areas and to
expansion. Chaos is the basic situation in this universe. To handle it you
put in order. Order goes in by being and making stable terminals arranged
to handle types of action and confusion. In organizing units, sections,
divs, depts, orgs or areas of orgs you build by stable terminals. You solve
areas by reinforcing stable terminals. Executives who do not grasp this
live lives of total harassment and confusion. The whole secret of
organization, the whole problem of Dev T, the basic ingredient of all
expansion is contained in this.
L. RON HUBBARD Founder
LRH:rs.ldm.ei.rd Copyright c 1969 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS
RESERVED HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 4 NOVEMBER 1969
Remimeo Dev-T Series
DEV-T GRAPHED
Confusion and the Stable Datum is graphed on every org board. The
stable terminals are at the top of every section, department, division or
portion of the org, as seen on the org board. If you consider each area
small or large as a BOX CONTAINING PUSHED ACTIONS AND RESTRAINED CONFUSIONS
and its In Charge or executive the Stable Terminal that makes this happen
you will really grasp what Dev-T is. Dev-T occurs when the stable terminal
of a box on the org board is not stable but is itself a confusion. There
are five major conditions on an org board, one right and four wrong. The
actions that should be pushed in any box on the org board are labeled on
the org board as belonging to that box. The Confusions that are supposed to
be handled in that box are easily deduced. A stable terminal pushes the
actions that belong to his area on the org board and handles or suppresses
the confusions of that area or aligns them with the correct flows. Many
people do not relate an org board to reality or understand that it itself
is a pattern which handles flows and actions and dispenses with confusions.
However its stable points must be stable and held as stable terminals or
the org board gets into confusions and develops Dev-T. All Dev-T is a
result of the above violations of staff members being stable terminals. If
you study this and really understand it you will have made a big break
through in grasping the science of organization.
L. RON HUBBARD Founder
LRH:rs.ei.rd Copyright c 1969 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 18 JUNE 1968
Remimeo Flag Order
ETHICS
The Purpose of Ethics is TO REMOVE COUNTER INTENTIONS FROM THE
ENVIRONMENT. And having accomplished that the purpose becomes TO REMOVE
OTHER INTENTIONNESS FROM THE ENVIRONMENT. Thus progress can be made by all.
Many mechanisms can exist to mask a counter intention. One has an intention
to expand the org. An "expert" says it is difficult as "The building
society....". The impulse is to then handle the problem presented by the
"expert", whereas the correct ETHICS action is to remove his Counter
Intentionedness or Other Intentionedness. If he were an EXPERT he would
simply say "OK. I'll handle my end of the expansion". There are many ways
to handle counter and other intentionedness. There is a fine line between
Ethics and Tech. The point where a thetan goes mad is very exact. It is the
point where he begins to obsessively stop something. From this the effort
becomes generalized and he begins to stop lots of other things. When this
includes anyone who or anything that would help him as well as those people
and things that help, the being is suppressive. His intentions counter any
other intention, particularly good intentions. Other intentionedness comes
from unawareness or dispersal. By removing things which disperses others.
Offering bottled medicine to cure "the blues" is a direct distraction. It
is the purveyor of the distraction who is the target. The person who enters
on Sen groups to then sell other-answer is of course an enemy. However we
go about accomplishing the above is the action of Ethics. The above is the
purpose.
L. RON HUBBARD Founder
LRH:js.cden Copyright c 1968 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 7 MARCH 1965 Issue III
Gen Non-Remimeo Post Org Public Boards
HCO (DIVISION 1) JUSTICE OFFENSES & PENALTIES
These are the penalties we have always more or less used, and these
are the offenses which have been usually considered offenses in
Scientology. Formerly they were never written down or routinely enforced,
there was no recourse, and these lacks made staff members uncertain of
their fate. They knew something happened but not why. They knew certain
things were frowned on but not how much or little. The penalties were
suddenly administered without warning as to what they would be or for what
offense. This then is a Code of Discipline which we have almost always more
or less used, made plain for everyone to see, with limits against over-
punishment and recourse for those who are wronged. Accordingly this Code of
Offenses and their penalties becomes firm and expressed policy. Lack of
specified offenses, penalties and recourse brings everyone to uncertainty
and risk at the whim of those in command. ___________________
There are four general classes of crimes and offenses in Scientology.
These are ERRORS, MISDEMEANORS, CRIMES AND HIGH CRIMES. 1. ERRORS. Errors
are minor unintentional omissions or mistakes. These are auditing "goofs";
minor alter-is of tech or policy; small instructional mistakes; minor
errors or omissions in performing duties and admin errors not resulting in
financial loss or loss of status or repute for a senior. Errors are dealt
with by corrections of the person, reprimand or warnings by seniors.
Certificates, Classifications and Awards may not be cancelled or suspended
or reduced for an Error. The offender may not be transferred or demoted or
fined or suspended for Committing an Error. No Committee of Evidence may be
convened because of an Error. Repeated corrections, warnings or reprimands
by a senior can, however, bring the repeated error offenses into the
category of Misdemeanor. 2. MISDEMEANORS. These are non-compliance;
discourtesy and insubordination; mistakes resulting in financial or traffic
loss; commissions or omissions resulting in loss of status or the
punishment of a senior; neglect or gross errors resulting in the need to
apply the Emergency Formula to their person, section, unit, department,
organization, zone or Division; knowing and repeated departures from
standard technology, instructional procedures or policy; continued
association with squirrels; abuse or loss or damage of org materiel; waste
of org materiel; waste of funds; alteration of senior policy or continued
ignorance of it; consistent and repeated failures to wear their hat
regarding Dev-T; refusing an E-Meter check; refusing auditing when ordered
by a higher authority; disturbing a course or class; disrupting a meeting;
the discovery of their having an undisclosed criminal background in this
lifetime; the discovery of an undisclosed tenure in a mental hospital;
processing a known Trouble Source or the family or adherents of a
Suppressive Person or Group; omissions resulting in disrepute or financial
loss; inadequate or declining income or traffic in a section, unit,
department, org, zone or Division; assisting the inadequacy or decline of
income or traffic in a section, unit, department, org, zone or Division;
failure to acknowledge, relay or comply with a direct and legal order from
an executive staff member; Auditor's Code breaks resulting in a disturbance
of the preclear; failure to follow the Instructor's Code resulting in
disturbed students; contributing to a crime; failure to appear before a
Committee of Evidence as a witness or interested party when personally
given summons or receiving summons by registered post; refusing to testify
before a Committee of Evidence; showing contempt or disrespect to a
Committee of Evidence when before it; destroying documents required by a
Committee of Evidence or refusing to produce them; withholding evidence;
false swearing on a signed statement or form; impeding Justice; refusing to
serve on a Committee of Evidence; refusing to vote while a member of a
Committee of Evidence; misconduct; issuing data or information to wrong
grades or unauthorized persons or groups or issuing data or information
broadly without authority. Such offenses are subject to direct punishment
by order and for a staff member the punishment is the assignment of a
personal condition of emergency for up to threeweeks and for an executive
staff member the assignment of up to a three months personal condition of
emergency. Personal conditions of emergency reduce pay or units one third
for the period assigned. Recourse may be had by requesting a Committee of
Evidence for return of pay but not damages. The same offenses may be used
for a Committee of Evidence but not both a Committee and punishment by
direct order-one or the other. However if any of these offenses become the
subject of a Committee of Evidence the penalty for a misdemeanor may be
increased to include suspension of a single certificate and/or
classification (but no more) or a minor demotion or transfer, but not
dismissal. None of these offenses may be made the subject of dismissal by
direct order or Committee of Evidence. Persons may not be dismissed for
misdemeanors. Nor may any certificates, classifications or awards be
cancelled. Non staff or field or franchise Scientologists committing those
of the above (except org) offenses applicable may have a Committee of
Evidence convened on them. Where serious, repeated or of magnitude harmful
to many, the same offenses can be re-classed as Crimes by a Convening
Authority. 3. CRIMES. These cover offenses normally considered criminal.
Offenses which are treated in Scientology as crimes are theft; mayhem;
harmful flagrant and continued Code Breaks resulting in important upsets;
non-compliance with urgent and vital orders resulting in public disrepute;
placing Scientology or Scientologists at risk; omissions or non-compliance
requiring heavy intervention by seniors consuming time and money, with Dev-
T; failure or refusal to acknowledge, relay or execute a direct legal order
from an International Board Member, or an assistant board member; being or
becoming a Potential Trouble Source without reporting it or taking action;
receiving auditing while a Potential Trouble Source; withholding from local
Scientology executives that he or she is a Potential Trouble Source;
failing to report a Potential Trouble Source to local HCO; organizing or
allowing a gathering or meeting of staff members or field auditors or the
public to protest the orders of a senior; being a knowing accessory to a
Suppressive Act; using a local Scientology title to set aside the orders or
policies from the International Board; following illegal orders or illegal
local policies or alter-is, knowing them to be different or contradictory
to those issued by the International Board; not directly reporting flagrant
departures from International Board policy in a section, unit, department,
org, zone or Division; being long absent from post while a senior executive
without advising the board member of his or her division; permitting a
section, unit, department, org, zone or Division to collapse; not taking
over as a deputy in a crisis not otherwise being handled; passing org
students or pcs to outside auditors for private commission; using an org
position to build up a private practice; taking private fees while on staff
to audit outside pcs, run private courses, coach or audit students or org
pcs; embezzlement; taking commissions from merchants; reselling org
materiel for private gain; using an org position to procure personal or non-
Scientology funds or unusual favours from the public, a firm, student or
pc; impersonating a Scientologist or staff member when not authorized;
inciting to insubordination; instigating a local power push against a
senior; spreading destructive rumours about senior Scientologists;
pretending to express a multiple opinion (use of "everybody") in vital
reports, which could influence assistant board or board decisions; not
reporting the discovery of a Crime or High Crime to Saint Hill while in
authority or as a member of a Committee of Evidence or as a witness before
a Committee of Evidence; refusal to accept penalties assigned in a recourse
action; refusal to uphold discipline; getting another staff member
disciplined by giving false reports about him or her; overworking an
executive by ignoring one's duties; falsifying a communication from higher
authority; falsifying a telex message or cable; causing a staff member to
lose prestige or be disciplined by giving false reports; seeking to shift
the blame to an innocent staff member for the consequences of one's own
offenses; protecting a staff member guilty of a Crime or High Crime listed
in this code; stealing or seducing another's wife or husband; committing
offenses or omissions that bring one's senior staff member, unit,
department, org or zone official to personal risk and/or a Committee of
Evidence, civil, criminal or court; wilful loss or destruction of
Scientology property; making out or submitting or accepting false purchase
orders; juggling accounts; illegally taking or possessing org property;
causing severe and disreputable disturbances resulting in disrepute;
obtaining loans or money under false pretenses; condoning circumstances or
offenses capable of bringing a course, section, unit, department, org, zone
or Division to a state of collapse; holding Scientology materials or
policies up to ridicule, contempt or scorn; heckling a Scientology
Instructor or lecturer; falsely degrading an auditor's technical
reputation; imperson - ating an executive staff member; pretending
Scientology certificates, classifications or awards not actually held to
obtain money or credit; selling auditing hours or training courses for
advance which are not then delivered as to hours and time in training (but
not results or subject matter); using Scientology harmfully; not bringing a
preclear up through the grades but overwhelming the preclear with high
levels; processing or giving aid or comfort to a Suppressive Person or
Group; knowingly using Scientology to obtain sexual relations or
restimulation; seducing a minor; neglect or omission in safeguarding the
copyrights, registered marks, trade marks, registered names of Scientology;
issuing the data or information or instructional or admin procedures
without credit or falsely assigning credit for them to another; issuing any
Scientology data under another name; condoning the suppression of the word
"Scientology" in its use or practice; allying Scientology to a disrelated
practice; neglect of responsibilities resulting in a catastrophe even when
another manages to avert the final consequences. Crimes are punished by
convening Committees of Evidence and may not be handled by direct
discipline. Crimes may result in suspension of certificates,
classifications or awards, reduction of post, or even dismissal or arrest
when the crime clearly warrants it. But such penalties may not be assigned
by direct discipline. Certificates, Classifications or Awards may not be
cancelled for a crime. 4. HIGH CRIMES. These are covered in HCO Policy
Letters March 7, 1965, Issues I and II and consist of publicly departing
Scientology or committing Suppressive Acts. Cancellation of Certificates,
Classifications and Awards and becoming fair game are amongst the penalties
which can be leveled for this type of offense as well as those recommended
by Committees of Evidence. A reward system for merit and good performance
also exists. L. RON HUBBARD LRH:jw.cden Copyright c 1965 by L. Ron Hubbard
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED CANCELLATION OF FAIR GAME: The practice of declaring
people FAIR GAME will cease. FAIR GAME may not appear on any Ethics Order.
It causes bad public relations. This P/L does not cancel any policy on the
treatment or handling of an SP. (From HCO P/L 21 October 1968-Volume 1,
page 489.) COMMITTEE OF EVIDENCE (COMM EV): A fact finding body composed of
impartial persons properly convened by a Convening Authority which hears
evidence from persons it calls before it, arrives at a finding and makes a
full report and recommendation to its Convening Authority for his or her
action. (From HCO P/L 7 September 1963, COMMITTEES OF EVIDENCE-Volume 1,
page 538.) [The above Policy Letter has been added to by HCO P/L 12 July
1971 Issue III, Offenses and Penalties-Addition, and HCO P/L 29 July 1971
Issue III, Penalties for the Hiring or Recruiting of Institutional or
Insane Persons, the latter being modified by HCO P/L 21 July 1972 Issue IV,
Staff Qualification Requirements for Hiring Cancelled, in the Year Books.]
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 17 MARCH 1965 Issue II
Remimeo
HCO (DIVISION 1) JUSTICE STAFF HAT
RIGHTS OF A STAFF MEMBER, STUDENTS AND PRECLEARS TO JUSTICE
1. HCO is the Justice agency of Scientology and Scientologists in
addition to other functions. 2. All matters of internal Justice in orgs.
Committees of Evidence and complaints are taken to the HCO personnel so
indicated on the Org Board. 3. All Scientologists and staff members in
accepting posts or membership agree to abide by the HCO Codes. These
include the Justice Codes. 4. HCO Justice applies to all Scientology and
Scientologists. 5. When we say Legal matters we mean outside law and law
agencies such as attorneys, civil courts, suits, contracts and corporation
and copyright matters. This comes under Division 3. 6. When we say JUSTICE
we mean HCO, Division 1, Internal activities such as Committees of
Evidence, internal enforcement and discipline. Scientology Justice
safeguards the rights of Scientologists, prevents injustice, prevents
punishment by whim, and brings order. Before the Justice Codes, discipline
was inequitable and often unjust. The HCO Justice Codes bettered this by
making offenses and penalties known and milder. HCO Justice prevents
wrongful disgrace, demotion, transfer or dismissal and protects the staff
member's reputation and job from being falsely threatened. 7. In a
Condition of Emergency assigned to a Department or org, staff members may
be subjected to demotion, transfer or dismissal as the Assignment of the
Condition of Emergency suspends the Justice Codes. There is no recourse,
then. In addition, offenses may still be made the subject of Committees of
Evidence. The thing to do is not get into such a state. Lessened traffic
and other matters all found on the OIC charts of each week are the sole
evidence used to assign a Condition of Emergency. A Condition of Emergency
cannot be assigned unless these graphs show a declining condition. 8. When
the org or department is not in a Condition of Emergency, the protective
Justice Codes are in full force. 9. A staff member who believes he has been
falsely wronged (unless a Condition of Emergency exists in his department
or org) may request a Committee of Evidence of HCO with himself as an
Interested Party and this must be granted him. He must however agree to
abide by its findings. It can restore any lost pay in cases of injustice
but not damages. No senior executive in the org may be named as an
Interested Party in matters of recourse requested by a junior but below the
level of Executive Councilman may be called as witnesses. An Executive
Councilman cannot be called before any Committee of Evidence by anyone in
his or her org including other Councilmen of that org. Only a senior org
may call Executive Councilmen of a junior org before a Committee of
Evidence and then only for a crime or high crime and then only in the
premises of the senior org. Do not then seek to name Executive Councilmen
as interested parties in any Committee of Evidence and do not seek to name
any member of any senior org in any Committee of Evidence requested by
anyone in an org junior to it. 10. If a staff member wishes to sue a fellow
staff member or right a wrong he or she may request a Civil Committee of
Evidence of HCO. HCO usually [appoints] one senior staff member on which
the two contenders can agree. The senior staff member holds a session or
sessions and both contenders must abide by his findings and award of any
money or damages or return of property. There is no further appeal. A Civil
Committee of Evidence follows the same procedure and has the same rights as
any other Committee of Evidence. A Civil Committee of Evidence may not be
called by contending co-auditors. These must seek out the D of P and abide
by the D of P's advice. 11. Students or pcs may not request Committees of
Evidence for causes occurring during a course or an intensive but may
appeal in writing to the Division 2 Service Executive. They must report
matters covered under the Justice Code, however, to HCO. There are no
student rules and regulations except the Justice Codes. All others are
abolished. The penalties that can be awarded are for an error, an
instructor reprimand, for a misdemeanor, a pink sheet which must be
completed before classification is given, for a crime, one to three weeks
at the student's expense in the HGC. A Committee of Evidence can also be
convened on a student or preclear for offenses as covered in the Justice
Codes. 12. In times of stress, commotion, riot or threats to person, an HCO
personnel may instantly deputize any other Scientologist merely by saying
loudly, "HCO. Bring Order," making it known in any way that the
Scientologist or Scientologists present should intervene or act. Any
Scientologist whose help is thus commanded at once becomes deputized by
Division 1 by the fact of required assistance and may not be charged before
a Committee of Evidence for any act committed in rendering assistance to
HCO during the period of stress and must be protected by the organization
from any civil authority and the organization must pay any fines or
expenses incurred or reasonable costs for damage to dress or hospital aid.
When the incident is over, the HCO personnel must say, "HCO thanks you for
bringing order," thus ending the deputization. An HCO Personnel requiring
an eviction of a person or persons from a premises or meeting or area need
only point to the person or persons and say, "HCO. Order!" Any staff member
or Scientologist present is instantly deputized as above and must act
promptly to carry out the eviction or be liable under Justice Codes when
failing to do so. This can be used in any circumstances, no matter how mild
the offender even down to slovenly or unauthorized persons on the-premises
or in any office. When the person or persons are removed, the HCO personnel
removes the deputization by saying, "HCO thanks you for order." These
orders apply even when the person causing a disturbance is an officer,
director or councilman of another division and none may be disciplined for
complying but may be liable under Justice Codes for not doing so. 13. When
personnel of other divisions foresee stress or danger, while they
themselves have ample authority in their own divisions to handle their own
personnel, where Scientologists in general are involved, they may not take
Justice in their own hands as it is a Division 1 HCO hat and Divisions must
not cross in functions. Where mixed divisions or not staff persons are
concerned they should be careful to have an HCO personnel present or
available, a wise precaution in event of the possibility of charges or
Committees of Evidence resulting, in which case an HCO personnel as a
witness would bear weight.
L. RON HUBBARD
LRH:ml.cden Copyright c 1965 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 17 MARCH 1965 Issue III
Gen Non-Remimeo
HCO (DIVISION 1) JUSTICE HAT
ADMINISTERING JUSTICE
There are some things to firmly keep in mind when you have to use
HCO's Justice function: 1. Only the criminally inclined desire a society in
which the criminal is free to do as he pleases. 2. Only the criminally
inclined are frightened enough of Justice to protest and complain that it
exists. 3. Without order nothing can grow or expand. 4. Justice is one of
the guards that keeps the channel of progress a channel and not a stopped
flow. 5. All reactive minds can exert pain and discomfort on a being. They
demand the suppression of the good and the production of the bad.
Therefore, in administering Justice, restrain just a trifle more than a
bank can compel a bad action. The external threat need be just enough to
make the internal pressure to do wrong the lesser of two discomforts.
Judgment lies in how much external restraint to apply. 6. Decent people are
in favour of Justice. Don't confuse the opinion of the majority who wish it
with the snarls of the few who fear it. 7. A person who is dramatizing his
criminal intent can become very angry if he is not prevented from hurting
others. 8. A thetan is good. He invented a bank to keep others good. That
mechanism went wrong. And that's why we're here. 9. In a session you would
keep a burglar from bursting in the room and disturbing the preclear. In
Scientology you keep offenders out so we can get on with our session with
society. 10. Look up the person who rails against Justice most and you will
have the one you have been looking for. 11. The only overt in handling
Justice is not to work for the greatest good of the greatest number.
L. RON HUBBARD
LRH:ml.bp.cden Copyright c 1965 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 27 MARCH 1965 Gen. Non Remimeo M.A. Post B Board
THE JUSTICE OF SCIENTOLOGY ITS USE AND PURPOSE BEING A SCIENTOLOGIST The
reason we have Justice Codes is to have justice. We don't want or need
injustice. When we have no codes, "justice" can be anything any authority
cares to make it. We have had too much caprice passing for justice. It is
time we had justice. Committees of Evidence work. I recall one Tech
Director accused of tampering with a student. I was told he was about to be
disciplined and sacked. I stopped that action and had a Committee of
Evidence convened. Accurate testimony revealed the story false and the Tech
Director innocent. Without that Committee he would have been mined. I know
of other instances where a Committee found the facts completely contrary to
rumour. Some are guilty, most are innocent. But thereby we have justice and
our necks aren't out. If a person is to keep the law, he or she must know
what the law is. And must be protected from viciousness and caprice in the
name of law. If a person doesn't keep the law knowing well what it is he or
she hurts all of us and should be handled. The enturbulence of the society
around us is fantastic. There is no just civil law left, really. It is that
lawless and disorderly condition in the society about us which makes it
hard for us to work. Shortly we will be even more powerful. That power must
not be lawless or we will have anarchy and dismay, enough to stop our
growth. If we have a superior law code and legal system which gives real
justice to people we will swiftly flow easily over the society and
everybody will win. Where we fail to apply our own administration,
technology and justice procedures to the society around us (let alone
Scientology) we will fail. There is too much truth in our lives not to
cause a social upheaval. Therefore, let us have justice and expand into
higher order, not plunge the world into darkness because our power as a
group struck innocent and guilty alike. A Scientologist must understand his
own justice system. Without understanding again there will be no justice.
Already the following points need correction in the uninformed person
concerning our justice. A Committee of Evidence is not a court. It is
simply a fact-finding body with legal powers, convened to get at the facts
and clean up the ARC Breaks caused by rumour. When it has the truth of it,
then a Convening Authority acts-but only in exact accordance with a Justice
Code. Our justice really rehabilitates in the long run. It only disciplines
those who are hurting others and gives them a way to change so they can
eventually win too-but not by hurting us. A Scientologist who fails to use
Scientology technology and its administrative and justice procedures on the
world around him will continue to be too enturbulated to do his job. That
sounds extreme to anyone. But if you look it over, you will find that the
"power" of the "Society" and "State" is pretended and is made from an
effort to be powerful where they actually lack power. Our situation is
quite the reverse. Ours is the power of truth and we are capable of power
as a group, having power as individuals due to processing and power of
wisdom due to superior technology. Therefore when we grant too much
beingness to their "power" we are granting validity to a falsehood and so
it recoils on us. We are in short, knocking our own heads off by failing to
use our knowledge and authority when we administer or handle our fellow man
or society. It's like refusing auditing to somebody or not making it
possible. It's also investing a lie with power. Society is losing ground
because its "power" is based on a pack of falsehoods. We will lose ground
if we empower those lies. There's real magic to be seen here. For instance
every upset we have is traceable to our not knowns or failing to apply our
technology and Admin and Justice procedures to the society around us and
its individuals, firms and groups. This is worse than you think. A
Scientology executive not handling Dev-T (Developed and unnecessary
traffic) from a government in accordance with our Dev-T policies when it
was off-line and off-policy recently caused an upset. A government official
was off-policy (his own bureau's) and the Scientology executive did not
follow our procedure of (a) send it back to source (b) correct the policy
error and (c) inform his superiors when results were not obtained. You say,
"But that's wild! Run a government by Scientology Admin." Well, all I know
is that it caused trouble when we didn't. Evidently it's not "them" and
"us". It's just "us" and a false "them." So all we have to do is to get
their hats on and they're us. Failure to take our usual justice actions on
offenders against us will result in eventual chaos. What matter if they
don't appear before the Committee of Evidence we convene on them? How do we
know they won't? How could the Victoria Parliament ever come right if we
failed to (a) Convene a Committee of Evidence (b) Follow our legal
procedures? No, they just stay "they". Has anybody informed the F.D.A. of
our amnesty? Well, did you know the F.D.A. was looking for a way out of
their mess for fear we'd sue for a million? They'd drop the E-Meter case if
they thought we wouldn't sue. How do we know if we don't try?
____________________ So therefore we must use Scientology tech, Admin and
Justice in all our affairs. No matter how mad it sounds, we only fail when
we don't. ____________________ And therefore every Scientologist should
understand his own tech, codes and procedures. Some Scientologists believe
when a Committee of Evidence is convened that they are at once suspended.
Nobody can be suspended or punished by the convening of a Committee of
Evidence. It's there to find the truth. Only when its findings are
submitted to its Convening Authority and where the Convening Authority acts
can anyone be suspended or transferred or demoted. Don't react to
Scientology Justice as though it were "wog" law. In society's "courts" one
is given the works and truth has little bearing on the findings. A mean
judge or clever attorney and small legal errors decide a lot of their
cases. Wog courts are like throwing dice. There is huge cost and publicity
and punishment galore even for the innocent. So we must preserve our
Justice. And use it. That's the main lesson. If we don't use it in all
questions where the truth of the matter is in doubt we'll just go on being
wogs. If we don't exhibit our science as a group and show a good example,
what can we achieve? So let's grow up to our own technology and take
responsibility for it. And wear our hats as Scientologists to the world.
L. RON HUBBARD
LRH:wmc.rd Copyright c 1965 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 5 APRIL 1965
Gen Non-Remimeo BPI Mag Article
SCIENTOLOGY MAKES A SAFE ENVIRONMENT
We're working to provide a safe environment for Scientology and
Scientologists in Orgs everywhere. The dangerous environment of the wog
world, of injustice, sudden dismissals, war, atomic bombs, will only
persist and trouble us if we fail to spread our safe environment across the
world. It starts with our own orgs. They must be safe environments. Only
good tech and Justice can make the Org environment safe. Like an auditing
room, we must be able to work undisturbed by the madness at our doors. We
can make every org a safe island then by expanding and joining those orgs,
bring peace and a safe environment to all the world. It not only can be
done. It is happening this moment. Push it along. Support policy, good tech
and Justice.
L. RON HUBBARD
LRH:mb.rd Copyright c 1965 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 10 APRIL 1965
Remimeo All Staff Sthl Staff Post Bulletin Bd All new Staff Members
HATS
DISMISSALS, TRANSFERS AND DEMOTIONS
It may not have come to the notice of all staff that HCO Justice
policy letters forbid staff members being sacked, demoted or transferred.
Only persons with "Temporary" or "Probationary" status can be dismissed as
they are not staff completely as yet. Only persons with Acting or Deputy
status can be demoted as the appointment is not permanent. All others, to
be demoted, transferred or dismissed without their consent must be called
before a Committee of Evidence. If the findings of the Committee recommend
dismissal, demotion or transfer, only then may it be done. A Committee of
Evidence is convened by the Office of LRH through the HCO Secretary and is
composed of 5 other staff members like yourself. Its purpose is entirely to
obtain evidence and recommend action which the Office of LRH then modifies
or orders. No other Justice actions or punishments exist in this org than
those found in Justice pamphlets or Letters. If a person is wrongly
dismissed, demoted or transferred he or she may request a Committee of
Evidence from the HCO Secretary and may have recourse. A person so
requesting may not also request their seniors to also be tried but evidence
may be obtained from them (seniors). If your seniors have acted outside the
Justice Codes they can be handled in exactly the same way by higher
authority. Your job is secure. It is also covered by the Justice Codes of
HCO. These are found in HCO (HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
) Policy Letters which arrive in mimeograph form in the HCO
Secretary's Office and which are also being made available in booklet form.
Keep the Justice Codes for a secure job and a peaceful organization.
L. RON HUBBARD
LRH:wmc.cden Copyright c 1965 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
[Amended by HCO P/L 12 July 1971 Issue III, Appointment of HCO Area
Secretaries, in the 1971 Year Book.] HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 29 APRIL 1965 Issue II Remimeo BPI ETHICS
PETITION The right to petition must not be denied. It is the oldest form of
seeking justice and a redress of wrongs and it may well be that when it
vanishes a civilization deteriorates thereby. Therefore these policies
apply: 1. Any one individual has the right to petition in writing any
senior or official no matter how high and no matter by what routing. 2. No
person may be punished for submitting a petition. 3. No two persons or more
may simultaneously petition on the same matter and if so the petition must
at once be refused by the person petitioned. Collective petition is a crime
under Ethics as it is an effort to hide the actual petitioner and as there
may be no punishment for a petition collective petition has therefore no
excuse of safety and is to be interpreted as an effort to overwhelm and may
not be regarded as a petition. 4. No generality may be used in a petition
such as a report of collective opinion unspecified as to identities. This
is to be interpreted as an effort to ARC Break a superior and the petition
must be refused. 5. Only one person may petition on one matter or the
petition must be refused. 6. Threat included in a request for justice, a
favour or redress deprives it of the status of "petition" and it must be
refused. 7. Discourtesy or malice in a request for justice, a favour or
redress deprives it of the status of "petition" and it must be refused. 8.
If a "petition" contains no request it is not a petition. 9. There may be
no special form for a petition beyond these policies. 10. A petition which
cannot be deciphered or understood should be returned to the sender with a
request that it be made legible or comprehensible, but this should not be
interpreted as a refusal or acceptance of the petition. 11. A copy of a
petition seeking justice against another person or group must be sent that
person or group to qualify the request as a petition. No action may be
taken by the person or group but he or they should append the copy to their
own statement of the matter and send it at once to the executive being
petitioned. 12. Petitions are normally directed to the heads of activities
such as the head of a portion of an org (HCO or the Org in the persons of
the HCO Executive Secretary and the Organization Executive Secretary) or
the Continental Heads of orgs or to Mary Sue Hubbard or L. Ron Hubbard. 13.
Petitions may not demand Committees of Evidence or punishment for
executives but may only state what has happened and request the matter be
righted. 14. A petition is itself and is not a form of recourse and making
a petition does not use up one's right to recourse. 15. All petitions
delivered in person verbally or in person with a note particularly when
this restricts a senior's freedom of motion, must be refused. 16. HCO
Secretaries or Communicators receiving petitions directed to be forwarded
to higher executives which do not comply with these policies should append
a copy of this policy letter to the petition and return it to sender. The
sender should then reform the petition into acceptable form and return it
on the same channels. When receiving his petition back with this policy
letter attached to it, the sender must not assume it has been refused and
become apathetic. He or she should realize that a favour has been done for
a petition in violation of these policies would have to be refused by the
person to whom the petitioner addressed it and that by rewording or
complying with these policies the petition now has a chance and will
undoubtedly be given courteous attention. A petitioner should consider
himself fortunate if a discourteous or collective or threatening petition
is returned as it would not be regarded as a petition by the executive to
whom it is addressed and might colour his or her opinion of the petitioner,
perhaps obscuring some real wrong which might well have received attention.
L. RON HUBBARD
LRH:ml.rd Copyright c 1965 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 26 MAY 1965
Remimeo
ETHICS PETITIONS (Add to HCO Pol Ltr 29 April 1965)
No person under sentence or awaiting a Committee of Evidence may
validly petition the Office of LRH. A petition may only be submitted before
or after the full course of Scientology Ethics has been taken. As all
Ethics actions such as a Committee of Evidence are reviewed, in effect a
line already exists due to the Ethics action and the facts will be on it.
Therefore a communication from a person under legal sentence from Ethics
Officers or a person named in a Comm Ev may not petition. Ethics actions
must be permitted to take their course. A protest from Ethics actions
worded as a petition routinely causes further investigation as the
"petitioner" is actually only protesting Ethics actions and is handled as
such.
L. RON HUBBARD
LRH:ml.rd Copyright c 1965 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 1 MAY 1965
Remimeo Staff Member Hats Executive Hats
STAFF MEMBER REPORTS
Staff Members must personally make certain reports in writing. Failure
to make these reports involves the executive or staff member not making a
report in any offence committed by a junior under him, or, in case of job
endangerment, by a senior over him. These reports are made to the Ethics
Section of the Department of Inspection and Reports. The report form is
simple. One uses a clip board with a packet of his division's colour flash
paper on it. This includes a piece of pencil carbon paper. This is the same
clip board and carbon one uses for his routine orders. It is a despatch
form addressed simply to the Ethics Section. It is dated. It has under the
address and in the centre of the page the person or portion of the org's
name. It then states what kind of a report it is (see below). The original
goes to Ethics by drawing an arrow pointing to "Ethics" and the carbon goes
to the person or portion of the org being reported on by channels (B
routing). The following are the reports required: 1. Damage Report. Any
damage to anything noted with the name of the person in charge of it or in
charge of cleaning it. 2. Misuse Report. The misuse or abuse of any
equipment, materiel or quarters, meaning using it wrongly or for a purpose
not intended. 3. Waste Report. The waste of org materiel. 4. Idle Report.
The idleness of equipment or personnel which should be in action. 5. Alter-
Is Report. The alteration of design, policy, technology or errors being
made in construction. 6. Loss or Theft Report. The disappearance of
anything that should be there giving anything known about its disappearance
such as when it was seen last. 7. A Found Report. Anything found, sending
the article with the despatch or saying where it is. 8. Non-Compliance
Report. Non-Compliance with legal orders. 9. Dev-T Report. Stating whether
Off-Line, Off-Policy or Off-Origin and from whom to whom and subject. 10.
Error Report. Any error made. 11. Misdemeanor Report. Any misdemeanor
noted. 12. A Crime Report. Any crime noted or suspected but if suspicion
only it must be so stated. 13. A High Crime Report. Any high crime noted or
suspected but if only suspected must be so stated. 14. A No-Report Report.
Any failure to receive a report or an illegible report or folder. 15. A
False Report Report. Any report received that turned out to be false. 16. A
False Attestation Report. Any false attestation noted, but in this case the
document is attached to the report. 17. An Annoyance Report. Anything about
which one is annoyed, giving the person or portion of an org or org one is
annoyed with, but the Department of Inspection and Reports and a senior org
are exempt and may not be reported on. 18. A JOB Endangerment Report.
Reporting any order received from a superior that endangered one's job by
demanding one alter or depart from known policy, the orders of a person
senior to one's immediate superior altered or countermanded by one's
immediate superior, or advice from one's immediate superior not to comply
with orders or policy. 19. Technical Alter-Is Report. Any ordered
alteration of technology not given in an HCOB, book or LRH tape. 20.
Technical Non-Compliance Report. Any failure to apply the correct technical
procedure. 21. Knowledge Report. On noting some investigation is in
progress and having data on it of value to Ethics. These reports are simply
written and sent. One does not expect an executive to front up to personnel
who err. One does expect an executive to make a report routinely on the
matter, no matter what the executive also does. Only in this way can bad
spots in the organization be recognized and corrected. For reports other
than one's own collect and point out bad conditions before those can harm
the org. _____________________ These reports are filed by Ethics in the
Ethics files in the staff member's folder or in the folder of the portion
of the org. A folder is only made if Ethics receives an Ethics Report.
Unless the staff member is part of a portion or an org that is under a
state of Emergency, FIVE such reports can accumulate before Ethics takes
any action. But if the report is deemed very serious, Ethics may take
action at once by investigating. If a State of Emergency existed in that
portion of the org or org, ONE report can bring about a Court of Ethics as
there is no leeway in an Emergency Condition. The most serious reports,
which are the only ones taken up at once, are technical alter-is, non-
compliance, any false reports, false attestations, no reports, misdemean -
ours, crimes and high crimes. The others are left to accumulate (except in
Emergency when all reports on that portion or org are taken up at once).
_____________________
CLEANING THE FILES An amnesty for a portion or an org or a general
amnesty can be declared by the Office of LRH Saint Hill. An amnesty will be
effective up to a date three months before it is issued. The Ethics files
are therefore nullified previous to the date declared in the Amnesty. An
amnesty signalizes a feat of considerable moment by a portion of an org or
an org or Scientology. An HCO Executive Letter can compliment a portion of
an org or an org and wipe out the Ethics Piles of the portion of an org or
the org complimented. An award is usually added for the persons
responsible. An assignment of a State of Normal Operation after an
Emergency (but not assigning affluence) cleans the portion of an org or the
org's Ethics Files. An individual may clean his own file by approaching
Ethics and offering to make amends. The person may be shown but may not
touch his Ethics files which are always kept locked when the office is
empty. The person should present a written and signed Amends Project
Petition to Ethics. Ethics attaches the person's file to it and sends it
safely to the Office of LRH "Ethics Authority Section". If accepted as
adequate amends by the Office of LRH it is authorized by the "Ethics
Authority Section" and returned to Ethics which places it on its "Projects
Time Machine". When accomplished the Amends Project is taken off the Time
Machine and forwarded to the Inspections Section which inspects and
verifies it is done and sends all to the Office of LRH "Ethics Authority
Section" which then authorizes the retirement of the reports on the person.
If the project comes off the Time Machine without being done, the matter
goes at once to a Court of Ethics. Any Amends Project must benefit the org
and be beyond routine duties. It may not only benefit the individual.
Offers to "get audited at own expense in Review" are acceptable as auditing
will benefit everyone. "To get trained at own expense up to.... and serve
the org two years afterwards" is acceptable amends. But the person's staff
pay is also suspended entirely during any auditing or training undertaken
as amends. "To get another department's files in order on my own time"
would be acceptable amends. Getting a celebrity into Scientology would be
acceptable amends. No work one would normally do himself on post is
acceptable amends. A donation or fine would not be acceptable amends. Doing
what one should do anyway is not amends, it is the expected. No org funds
may be employed in an Amends Project. No amends are thereafter accepted if
the person has failed to complete an amends project since the effective
date of the last amnesty applying to the person's portion or org. Any bonus
specifically given by the person's name also cleans the person's Ethics
Files without comment. The responsibility for handling the cleaning of
files is that of the Ethics Section of the Department of Inspection and
Reports which notes amnesties, compliments and specific bonus awards and
handles its Ethics files accordingly. No Amends Projects may be accepted
except through the Office of LRH and a superior may not bring a junior who
wishes his files cleaned by Amends into Ethics and assist him to make the
proper project applications. It must be voluntarily done by the junior. No
amnesties, compliments or bonuses may be made or declared except by the
Office of LRH and authorized also from Saint Hill.
L. RON HUBBARD
LRH:ml.cden Copyright c 1965 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 16 MAY 1965 Issue II
Gen Non-Remimeo
HCO Div 1 Dept Insp & Rpts (Dept 3) Ethics Section
INDICATORS OF ORGS
Just as pcs have indicators so do orgs. There is a probable long list
of Good Indicators. When these are present, Ethics is quiet and hangs onto
an interrogation, etc only long enough to get policy and technology in.
There is a probable long list of BAD Indicators. When these are present
Ethics becomes industrious in ratio to the number of bad indicators. The
first indicators, Good or Bad, are Statistics-the OIC graphs for units,
sections, departments, divisions and the org. When these are rising, the
rise is a GOOD INDICATOR. When these are falling the fall is a BAD
INDICATOR. The second of these indicators, good or bad, is TECHNICAL GAINS.
When technology is in cases are gaining. This is a Good Indicator. When
technology is out, cases are losing. This is a Bad Indicator. Ethics only
exists to hold the fort long enough and settle things down enough to get
technology in. Ethics is never carried on for its own sake. It is pushed
home only until technology is functioning and then technology resolves
matters and Ethics prowls off looking for other targets. We don't hang
people because we started to hang them and so must do so. We start to hang
people and keep right on tying the noose in a workmanlike fashion right up
to the instant we can get tech in-which of course makes the noose
unnecessary. But if tech never does get in then we complete the hanging.
You will find if you label a Suppressive you will some day get him back and
get tech in on him. If you don't ever label they wander off and get lost.
Labelling as a Suppressive is our hanging. When things are bad (Bad
Indicators heavily visible) putting a body on the gallows is very salutary.
We call it "Putting a head on a pike". Too many BAD Indicators and too
goofed up a situation and we must put a head on a pike. Then things simmer
down and we can begin to get tech in. That's the whole purpose of Ethics-to
Get Tech IN. And we use enough to do so, to get correct standard tech in
and being done. When there are lots of bad indicators about-low and falling
statistics, goofed cases, we get very handy with our Interrogatories and
put the place very nearly under martial law-we call this a State of
Emergency. Once Emergency is declared, you usually have to put a head or
two on a pike to convince people that you mean it. After that necessity
level rises and the place straightens up. If an Emergency is continued
beyond a reasonable time, we resort to very heavy discipline and Comm Ev
the executives who wouldn't get off it. Ethics, then, is applied to the
degree required to produce the result of getting tech in. Once tech is
really in on a person (with a case gain) or a tech division, let us say,
and auditors actually audit standard processes by the book, we know it will
resolve and we ease off with Ethics. Ethics, then, is the tool by which you
get Good Indicators In by getting tech in. Ethics is the steam roller which
smooths the highway. Once the road is open we are quite likely to skip
remaining investigation and let it all be. But somebody promising to be
good is never good enough. We want statistics. Bettered statistics.
SYMPTOMS OF ORGS
Orgs have various symptoms which tell us how things really are Ethic-
wise. One of these is Dilettantism.
DILETTANTE-ISM
Dilettante = One who interests himself in an art or science merely as
a pastime and without serious study. In an org, this manifests itself with
"people should live a little." "One needs a rest from Scientology." "One
should do something else too." All that kind of jazz. It also manifests
itself in non-consecutive scheduling, part-time students, "because things
are different in this town and people can come only two nights _____". Ask
what they do with other nights. Bowling. Horse-racing. Boy, you better mark
the case folders of staff. You have a Suppressive aboard. Maybe six.
Scientology, that saves lives, is a modern miracle, is being compared to
bowling. Get it? That org or portion just isn't serious. Scientology is an
idle club to it, an old lady's sewing circle. And to somebody, selling
training and auditing are just con games they put over on the public.
SUPPRESSIVES!
Root them out. WILD RUMOURS-This Symptom is caused by Potential
Trouble Sources. Find whose case roller-coasters (gets better, gets worse).
Investigate. You'll find a Suppressive or two outside the org. Put a head
on a pike with an HCO Ethics Order and publish it widely. ARC BROKEN FIELD-
The Johannesburg Comm Ev Order of last week is a perfect method of handling
the situation. Appoint a Comm Ev Chairman to inquire into matters and form
a list of interested parties based on reports he will now receive. BAD TECH-
When results just don't happen in the Academy, HGC or Review one or
another, look for the Potential Trouble Sources and Suppressives. Only they
can keep tech out. Put a big head on a pike and then begin to interrogate
every slip in the place. Suddenly Tech is in again. There are many such
symptoms. AT THE ROOT OF EVERY BAD CONDITION WILL BE FOUND A SUPPRES - SIVE
PERSON. Locate your Potential Trouble Sources by locating passers of
rumours, etc. Then locate the Suppressive and shoot. Calm reigns. Tech is
in. And that's all one means to accomplish. Today TECHNOLOGY WORKS ON EVERY
CASE. If the local org can't handle a case, Saint Hill can. If you get tech
in well enough in an org, tech handles all. Beautifully. But if it is out,
only Ethics can bat down the reasons it can't be gotten in.
______________________
OPTIMUM STATE
The optimum state of an org is so high that there is no easy way to
describe it. All cases getting cracked, releases and clears by the
hundreds, command of the environment. Big. That's an optimum state for any
org. If it isn't rising toward optimum today, it is locally being held
down. The viewpoint of Ethics is there is no adequate reason why an org is
stumbling except Ethics reasons. Let others take care of any other lacks.
Ethics never gets reasonable about lack of expansion. If Ethics shoves hard
enough others will get a high enough necessity level to act. So when an org
is low: Find out where its statistics are down and who is a PTS or an SP
and ACT. That's the job of Ethics. Thus little by little we take off the
breaks for a cleared Earth.
L. RON HUBBARD
LRH:wmc.cden Copyright c 1965 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 15 AUGUST 1965 Remimeo All Staff Hats Inspection
Officer THINGS THAT SHOULDN'T BE If you see something going on in the org
or incorrect that you don't like, and yet do not wish to turn in an Ethics
chit, or indeed don't know who to report, WRITE A DESPATCH TO THE
INSPECTION OFFICER. Tell him what you have noticed and give him what data
you can. The Inspection Officer will then investigate it and make a report
to the right executives or turn in an Ethics chit on the offending persons
himself. Don't just natter if there's something you don't like. Tell the
Inspection Officer. Then something can be done about it.
L. RON HUBBARD
LRH:ml.rd Copyright c 1965 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 27 AUGUST 1965 Sthil Staff Students Preclears
HOUSING STAFF, STUDENTS, PRECLEARS Any staff member, student or preclear
living in rented quarters is to be held responsible for leaving the
quarters in as good condition as he found them. This of course doesn't
include normal wear and tear. If a claim is presented by a landlord, and
the Scientologist feels it is unjust it is a matter for the Inspection
Officer to inspect and decide. If the Scientologist is found to be at
fault, the non-payment of such damages will become an Ethics matter. The
intention is that justice be given both the Scientologist and the property
owner. Therefore damages may be awarded a property owner, but should be in
proportion to the actual damages done. There are many Scientologists living
in East Grinstead and with the course expanding, there will be a lot more
in the future. Housing is limited already. There is no need to further this
condition by creating bad will with the local property owners. This Policy
is in keeping with our Scientology justice codes.
L. RON HUBBARD
LRH:ml.rd Copyright c 1965 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 1 SEPTEMBER AD 15 Issue VII
Remimeo All Hats
Div 1 ETHICS
ETHICS PROTECTION
Ethics actions must parallel the purposes of Scientology and its
organizations. Ethics exists primarily to get technology in. Tech can't
work unless Ethics is already in. When tech goes out Ethics can (and is
expected to) get it in. For the purpose of Scientology amongst others, is
to apply Scientology. Therefore when tech is in, Ethics actions tend to be
dropped. Ethics continues its actions until tech is in and as soon as it
is, backs off and only acts if tech goes out again. The purpose of the org
is to get the show on the road and keep it going. This means production.
Every division is a production unit. It makes or does something that can
have a statistic to see if it goes up or down. Example: a typist gets out
500 letters in one week. That's a statistic. If the next week the same
typist gets out 600 letters that's an UP statistic. If the typist gets out
300 letters that's a DOWN statistic. Every post in an org can have a
statistic. So does every portion of the org. The purpose is to keep
production (statistics) up. This is the only thing that gives a good income
for the staff member personally. When statistics go down or when things are
so organized you can't get one for a post, the staff members' pay goes down
as the org goes down in its overall production. The production of an
organization is only the total of its individual staff members. When these
have down statistics so does the org. Ethics actions are often used to
handle down individual statistics. A person who is not doing his job
becomes an Ethics target. Conversely, if a person is doing his job (and his
statistic will show that) Ethics is considered to be in and the person is
protected by Ethics. As an example of the proper application of Ethics to
the production of an org, let us say the Letter Registrar has a high
statistic (gets out lots of effective mail). Somebody reports the Letter
Registrar for rudeness, somebody else reports the Letter Registrar for
irregular conduct with a student. Somebody else reports the Letter
Registrar for leaving all the lights on. Proper Ethics Officer action =
look up the general statistics of the Letter Registrar, and seeing that
they average quite high, file the complaints with a yawn. As the second
example of Ethics application to the production of an org, let us say that
a Course Supervisor has a low statistic (very few students moved out of his
course, course number growing, hardly anyone graduating, a bad Academy
statistic). Somebody reports this Course Supervisor for being late for
work, somebody else reports him for no weekly Adcomm report and bang!
Ethics looks up the person, calls for an Ethics Hearing with trimmings. We
are not in the business of being good boys and girls. We're in the business
of going free and getting the org production roaring. Nothing else is of
any interest then to Ethics but (a) getting tech in, getting it run and
getting it run right and (b) getting production up and the org roaring
along. Therefore if a staff member is getting production up by having his
own statistic excellent. Ethics sure isn't interested. But if a staff
member isn't producing, shown by his bad statistic for his post, Ethics is
fascinated with his smallest misdemeanor. In short a staff member can get
away with murder so long as his statistic is up and can't sneeze without a
chop if it's down. To do otherwise is to permit some suppressive person to
simply Ethics chit every producer in the org out of existence. When people
do start reporting a staff member with a high statistic, what you
investigate is the person who turned in the report. In an ancient army a
particularly brave deed was recognized by an award of the title of Kha-
Khan. It was not a rank. The person remained what he was, BUT he was
entitled to be forgiven the death penalty ten times in case in the future
he did anything wrong. That was a Kha-Khan. That's what producing, high
statistic staff members are Kha-Khans. They can get away with murder
without a blink from Ethics. The average fair to poor statistic staff
member of course gets just routine ethics with hearings or courts for too
many misdeeds. The low statistic fellow gets a court if he sneezes. Ethics
must use all org discipline only in view of the production statistic of the
staff member involved. And Ethics must recognize a Kha-Khan when it sees
one-and tear up the bad report chits on the person with a yawn. To the
staff member this means-if you do your job you are protected by Ethics. And
if you aren't so protected and your statistic is high, cable me.
L. RON HUBBARD
LRH:ml.rd Copyright c 1965 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 15 NOVEMBER 1965
Remimeo All Staff
REPORTING OF THEFT AND ACTION TO BE TAKEN
When a theft occurs in the Organisation, a routine set of actions
should occur. These actions are as follows: 1. The person discovering the
theft goes immediately to the Ethics Officer and makes a full verbal report
of the article/articles stolen, when they were last there-who was
responsible for their safety-and any further data that he has on it. 2. The
Ethics Officer writes down all details of the theft and the articles
stolen. In the cases where large objects such as a machine, car, or the
building has been broken into and something taken, he calls the Police
immediately giving full details of the theft. 3. The Ethics Officer then
makes a Xerox copy of the details of the theft and takes it to the
Insurance Officer, Dept of Records, Assets and Materiel, Org Division. 4.
The Insurance Officer takes the Report and immediately notifies the
Insurance Company with which the article was insured. These actions should
be done speedily as in some cases unless a theft is reported immediately to
the Police and the Insurance Company, the Insurance is not collectable. It
is the responsibility of the Insurance Officer to see that all articles of
value are insured.
L. RON HUBBARD
LRH:ml.rd Copyright c 1965 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 15 DECEMBER 1965 Remimeo ETHICS CHITS When anyone
receives an Ethics Chit which the recipient feels is incorrect, the answer
is not to issue another chit naming the person that issued the first chit.
Such action merely sets up a vicious circle of Ethics Chits going between
two persons. The purpose of Ethics is to get Technology and policy in and
get the org going, not to start slanging matches. Therefore if anyone
receives an Ethics Chit, he or she should first take a good look at his or
her actions and see what needs to be done in order to avoid a repetition of
the offence. If, however, after careful consideration they consider the
chit really unjustified, they should politely despatch the Ethics Officer,
stating briefly their reasons, supported where possible with data and ask
for the chit to be withdrawn. If, in light of the data received, Ethics is
satisfied that the chit was incorrectly issued, he/she can return the chit
and explanation to the originator asking for the chit to be withdrawn. If
the originator decides now to withdraw the chit after seeing the
explanation he returns it to Ethics requesting cancellation and Ethics
removes the chit from the file. If the originator is dissatisfied with the
explanation the chit should not be withdrawn. The originator sends the
despatch and chit back to the Ethics Officer with 'To Ethics-File' written
on it. Ethics infos the receiver and files. In this case, the receiver can
if he wishes appeal by despatch to the Ethics Officer and ask for a
hearing. Thereupon, the Ethics Officer calls both the originator and the
receiver (unless the originator is a Secretary or above) to his office and,
taking only the facts set out in the receiver's despatch to Ethics, makes a
quick investigation. The Ethics Officer then makes one of the following
adjudications: 1. Have the Ethics Chit destroyed. 2. Have the Ethics Chit
destroyed and if he finds that the Chit was carelessly or incorrectly
issued (bearing in mind what information was available to the originator at
the time of issue), indicate the incorrectness to the originator and order
any necessary checkouts on the relevant Policy Letter/s violated to correct
the originator into future on-policy handling. 3. If he discovers the Chit
to have been a willful and knowing false report, convene an Ethics Hearing
on the originator (not for the fact of filing, only for the willful and
knowing false report); or if the originator is a Director or above, request
an Executive Ethics Hearing be convened by the Office of LRH via the HCO
Area Secretary. 4. Order the Ethics Chit to remain on the file. 5. Take up
all the receiver's Ethics Chits and hold the hearing accordingly. If the
originator is a Secretary or above the Ethics Officer and the receiver
visit the Secretary in his Office for the hearing on appointment. But a
Secretary or above need not grant the appointment at all if so inclined. In
such a case the hearing is held without the originator in the Ethics
Office. No person may be penalized for issuing an Ethics Chit. This policy
letter is retroactive from this date. In other words old chits may be
protested as above.
L. RON HUBBARD LRH:emp.rd Copyright c 1965 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL
RIGHTS RESERVED
[ Note: The original issue of this Policy Letter contained errors in
the fifth paragraph which have been corrected in this edition. Also, point
2 above, which was incomplete in the original mimeo, has been corrected and
completed, and a new item as point 3 has been included. The corrections and
additions are shown in italics.] HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 6 MARCH 1966
Remimeo Guardian Hat Exec Sees Hat HCO Area Sec Hat Dir I & R Hat All
HCO Hats LRH Comm Hat
REWARDS AND PENALTIES HOW TO HANDLE PERSONNEL AND ETHICS MATTERS
The whole decay of Western government is explained in this seemingly
obvious law: WHEN YOU REWARD DOWN STATISTICS AND PENALIZE UP STATISTICS YOU
GET DOWN STATISTICS. If you reward non-production you get non-production.
When you penalize production you get non-production. The Welfare State can
be defined as that state which rewards non-production at the expense of
production. Let us not then be surprised that we all turn up at last slaves
in a starved society. Russia cannot even feed herself but depends on
conquest to eke out an existence-and don't think they don't strip the
conquered! They have to. Oddly enough one of the best ways to detect a
Suppressive Person is that he or she stamps on up statistics and condones
or rewards down statistics. It makes an SP very happy for everyone to
starve to death, for the good worker to be shattered and the bad worker
patted on the back. Draw your own conclusions as to whether or not Western
Governments (or Welfare States) became at last Suppressives. For they used
the law used by suppressives: If you reward non-production you get non-
production. Although all this is very obvious to us, it seems to have been
unknown, overlooked or ignored by 20th Century governments. In the conduct
of our own affairs in all matters of rewards and penalties we pay sharp
heed to the basic laws as above and use this policy: We award production
and up statistics and penalize non-production and down statistics. Always.
Also we do it all by statistics-not rumour or personality or who knows who.
And we make sure every one has a statistic of some sort. We promote by
statistic only. We penalize down statistics only. The whole of Government
as government was only a small bit of a real organization-it was an Ethics
function Plus a Tax function Plus a Disbursement function. This is about
3/100ths of an organization. A 20th Century government was just these 3
functions gone mad. Yet they made the whole population wear the hat of
government. We must learn and profit from what they did wrong. And what
they mainly did wrong was reward the down statistic and penalize the up
statistic. The hardworker-earner was heavily taxed and the money was used
to support the indigent. This was not humanitarian. It was only given
"humanitarian" reasons. The robbed person was investigated exclusively,
rarely the robber. The head of government who got into the most debt became
a hero. War rulers were deified and peacetime rulers forgotten no matter
how many wars they prevented. Thus went Ancient Greece, Rome, France, the
British Empire and the US. This was the decline and fall of every great
civilization on this planet: they eventually rewarded the down statistic
and penalized the up statistic. That's all that caused then - decline. They
came at last into the hands of Suppressives and had no technology to detect
them or escape their inevitable disasters. Thus, when you think of
"processing Joe to make a good D of P out of him and get him over his
mistakes" forget it. That rewards a down statistic. Instead, find an
auditor with an up statistic, reward it with processing and make him the D
of P. Never promote a down statistic or demote an up statistic. Never even
hold a hearing on someone with an up statistic. Never accept an Ethics chit
on one-just stamp it "Sorry, Up Statistic" and send it back. But someone
with a steadily down statistic, investigate. Accept and convert any Ethics
chit to a hearing. Look for an early replacement. Gruesomely, in my
experience I have only seldom raised a chronically down statistic with
orders or persuasion or new plans. I have only raised them with changes of
personnel. So don't even consider someone with a steadily down statistic as
part of the team. Investigate, yes. Try, yes. But if it stays down, don't
fool about. The person is drawing pay and position and privilege for not
doing his job and that's too much reward even there. Don't get reasonable
about down statistics. They are down because they are down. If someone was
on the post they would be up. And act on that basis. Any duress levelled by
Ethics should be reserved for down statistics. Even Section 5 investigates
social areas of down statistic. Psychiatry's cures are zero. The negative
statistic of more insane is all that is "up". So investigate and hang. If
we reverse the conduct of declining governments and businesses we will of
course grow. And that makes for coffee and cakes, promotion, higher pay,
better working quarters and tools for all those who earned them. And who
else should have them? If you do it any other way, everyone starves. We are
peculiar in believing there is a virtue in prosperity. You cannot give more
to the indigent than the society produces. When the society, by penalizing
production, at last produces very little and yet has to feed very many,
revolutions, confusion, political unrest and Dark Ages ensue. In a very
prosperous society where production is amply rewarded, there is always more
left over than is needed. I well recall in prosperous farm communities that
charity was ample and people didn't die in the ditch. That only happens
where production is already low and commodity or commerce already scarce
(scarcity of commercial means of distribution is also a factor in
depressions). The cause of the great depression of the 1920s and 1930s in
the US and England has never been pointed out by Welfare "statesmen". The
cause was Income Tax and government interference with companies and, all
during the 1800s, a gradual rise of nationalism and size of governments and
their budgets, and no commercial develop - ment to distribute goods to the
common people, catering to royal governments or only a leisure class still
being the focus of production. Income tax so penalized management, making
it unrewarded, and company law so hampered financing that it ceased to be
really worthwhile to run companies and management quit. In Russia
management went into politics in desperation. Kings were always decreeing
the commoner couldn't have this or that (it put the commoner's statistic
up!) and not until 1930 did anyone really begin to sell to the people with
heavy advertising. It was Madison Avenue, radio, TV and Bing Crosby not the
Gre-e-eat Roosevelt who got the US out of the depression. England, not
permitting wide radio coverage, never has come out of it and her empire is
dust. England still too firmly held the "aristocratic" tradition that the
commoner mustn't possess to truly use her population as a market. But the
reason they let it go this way and the reason the great depression occurred
and the reason for the decline of the West is this one simple truth: If you
reward non-production you get it. It is not humanitarian to let a whole
population go to pieces just because a few refuse to work. And some people
just won't. And when work no longer has reward none will. It is far more
humane to have enough so everyone can eat. So specialize in production and
everybody wins. Reward it. There is nothing really wrong with socialism
helping the needy. Sometimes it is vital. But the reasons for that are more
or less over. It is a temporary solution, easily overdone and like
Communism is simply old-fashioned today. If carried to extremes like
drinking coffee or absinthe or even eating it becomes quite uncomfortable
and oppressive. And today Socialism and Communism have been carried far too
far and now only oppress up statistics and reward down ones.
_________________
By the way the natural law in this Pol Ltr is the reason Scientology
goes poorly when credit is extended by orgs and when auditors won't charge
properly. With credit and no charge we are rewarding down statistics with
attention and betterment as much as we reward up statistics in the society.
A preclear who can work and produces as a member of society deserves of
course priority. He naturally is the one who can pay. When we give the one
who can't pay just as much attention we are rewarding a down social
statistic with Scientology and of course we don't expand because we don't
expand the ability of the able. In proof, the most expensive thing you can
do is process the insane and these have the lowest statistic in the
society. The more you help those in the society with low statistics the
more tangled affairs will get. The orgs require fantastic attention to keep
them there at all when we reward low society statistics with training and
processing. The worker pays his way. He has a high statistic. So give him
the best in training and processing-not competition with people who don't
work and don't have any money. Always give the best service to the person
in society who does his job. By not extending credit you tend to guarantee
the best service to those with the best statistics and so everyone wins
again. None is owed processing or training. We are not an Earthwide amends
project. No good worker owes his work. That's slavery. We don't owe because
we do better. One would owe only if one did worse. Not everyone realizes
how Socialism penalizes an up statistic. Take health taxes. If an average
man adds up what he pays the government he will find his visits to medicos
are very expensive. The one who benefits is only the chronically ill, whose
way is paid by the healthy. So the chronically ill (down statistic) are
rewarded with care paid for by penalties on the healthy (up statistic). In
income tax, the more a worker makes the more hours of his work week are
taxed away from him. Eventually he is no longer working for his reward. He
is working for no pay. If he got up to?50 a week the proportion of his pay
(penalty) might go as high as half. Therefore people tend to refuse higher
pay (up statistics) as it has a penalty that is too great. On the other
hand a totally indigent non-working person is paid well just to loaf. The
up statistic person cannot hire any small services to help his own
prosperity as he is already paying it via the government to somebody who
doesn't work. Socialisms pay people not to grow crops no matter how many
are starving. Get it? So the law holds. Charity is charity. It benefits the
donor, giving him a sense of superiority and status. It is a liability to
the receiver but he accepts it as he must and vows (if he has any pride) to
cease being poor and get to work. Charity cannot be enforced by law and
arrest for then it is extortion and not charity. And get no idea that I
beat any drum for capitalism. That too is old-old-old hat. Capitalism is
the economics of living by non-production. It by exact definition is the
economics of living off interest from loans. Which is an extreme of
rewarding non-production. Imperialism and Colonialism are also bad as they
exist by enslaving the population of less strong countries like Russia
does, and that too is getting a reward for non-production like they did in
Victorian England from all the colonies. Parasitism is Parasitism. Whether
high or low it is unlovely. All these isms are almost equally nutty and
their inheritors, if not their originators, were all of a stamp-
suppressive. All I beat the drum for is that the working worker deserves a
break and the working manager deserves his pay and the successful company
deserves the fruits of its success. Only when success is bought by
enslavement or rewards are given to bums or thieves will you find me
objecting. This is a new look. It is an honest look. Reward the up
statistic and damn the down and we'll all make out.
L. RON HUBBARD
LRH:ml.rd Copyright c 1966 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 5 MARCH 1968 (HCO POLICY LETTER OF 31 OCTOBER
1966 Issue II Amended and reissued)
Remimeo Staff Status I Check Sheet
ADMINISTRATIVE KNOW-HOW GENERAL FOR ALL STAFF JOB ENDANGERMENT CHITS
If you are given orders or directions or preventions or denied
materials which makes it hard or impossible for you to raise your
statistics or do your job at all, you MUST file a job endangerment chit on
your next highest superior. If you are admonished or ordered to a hearing
for NOT doing your job and having low statistics and have NOT previously
filed a job endangerment chit at the time it occurred, you have no defense.
You should not come to a hearing as a defendant and say you were prevented
or inhibited from doing your job. Unless you have filed a job endangerment
chit previously when your job was endangered the statement MAY NOT BE
ACCEPTED by the Hearing Officer or the Comm Ev. POLICY Most people who have
trouble with policy or admin do so simply because they don't know it or
can't or don't use it. Such a person can be told anything and tends to take
it as fact. Policy exists to speed the wheels and make a job do-able. But
sometimes one has a senior who continually says this or that is "against
policy". Always respectfully ask for the date of the Policy Letter and to
see a copy of it. Then you will know that what you propose is or is not
against policy. If no policy letter can be produced or if what you proposed
is NOT against policy and is still refused, you must file a job
endangerment chit. WHERE TO FILE FORMERLY ONLY ONE COPY WAS WRITTEN. THIS
IS NOW MODIFIED. USING CARBON PAPER, MAKE AN ORIGINAL AND TWO COPIES. SEND
ONE COPY TO THE PERSON BEING FILED ON. SEND TWO COPIES TO THE ETHICS
OFFICER. THE ETHICS OFFICER WILL FILE ONE IN THE FILE OF THE PERSON NAMED
AND ONE IN THE FILE OF THE PERSON WRITING THE CHIT. THESE COPIES MUST BE
CAREFULLY PRESERVED IN EVENT OF A COMM EV OR HEARING AS THEY ARE NECESSARY
DEFENSE PAPERS. WHAT TO FILE Full details, without rancor or discourtesy,
must be given in the report, including time, places and any witnesses.
VEXATIONS FILING Anyone filing job endangerment chits on superiors or equal
or juniors must be able to back them up. One cannot be given an Ethics
Hearing or Comm Ev for a false job endangerment chit unless it contains a
willful and knowing false report which endangers somebody else's job. But
even so, no Ethics Hearing may be ordered for the fact of filing, only for
a willful and knowing false report. So if your facts are straight there is
no slightest risk in filing a job endangerment chit. On the contrary, it is
dangerous NOT to file one. For then one has NO defense. PERSONAL MATTERS
Sometimes a staff member is imposed on in such a way as to prejudice his
job such as having to do off line favours. This is an occasion for a job
endangerment chit. _________________ If one is threatened with punishment
if one files a job endangerment chit, one must then file a second chit
based on the threat. _________________ If an org as a whole seems to refuse
job endangerment chits or ignore them, one can be filed with Worldwide
simply by sending it direct to "HCO Ethics Worldwide, Saint Hill Manor,
East Grinstead, Sussex
." WRONGFUL DISMISSAL Dismissal without following proper procedure of
a Hearing may be sued in the Chaplain's Court, Division 6. If no Chaplain's
Court exists in the local org then one surely does in the Continental Org
and one can file such a suit there or at Saint Hill. CHITS BY SENIORS
Seniors let down by juniors had better file job endangerment chits before
calling a lot of Ethics actions. Staff members are seldom willful, they are
just unknowing. Senior chits on juniors should carry a copy to the junior
on channels as well as Ethics. FALSE REPORTS When one finds he has been
falsely reported upon he should file a job endangerment chit. HEARINGS ON
CHITS Ethics action is not necessarily taken because a chit has been filed
on one. But if too many chits occur in a staff member's file, an
investigation should be ordered and only if the Board so recommends does
Ethics action then occur. STATE OF MIND Don't sit around muttering because
you are being kept from doing your job. And don't be timid about filing a
job endangerment chit. Don't accept orders you know are against policy or
at least unworkable. File a job endangerment chit. There is no vast THEY
weighing you down. There is only ignorance of policy or misinterpretation
or arbitrary interference. If you are willing to do your job, then know
your job and do it. And if you are being shoved off so you can't do it you
MUST file a job endangerment chit. You have a right to do your job, you
know. L. RON HUBBARD Founder LRH:jc.rd Copyright c 1966, 1968 by L. Ron
Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
[Note: The reissue expanded the section under "Where to File".]
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 26 DECEMBER 1968
Remimeo
(Note: This data is turned out as an HCOB and a Pol Ltr [issued as
each one] as may apply very broadly in both the OEC and Level IV or above
Courses.)
THE THIRD PARTY LAW I have for a very long time studied the causes of
violence and conflict amongst individuals and nations. If Chaldea could
vanish, if Babylon turn to dust, if Egypt could become a badlands, if
Sicily could have 160 prosperous cities and be a looted ruin before the
year zero and a near desert ever since-and all this in SPITE of all the
work and wisdom and good wishes and intent of human beings, then it must
follow as the dark follows sunset that something must be unknown to Man
concerning all his works and ways. And that this something must be so
deadly and so pervasive as to destroy all his ambitions and his chances
long before their time. Such a thing would have to be some natural law
unguessed at by himself. And there is such a law, apparently, that answers
these conditions of being deadly, unknown and embracing all activities. The
law would seem to be: A THIRD PARTY MUST BE PRESENT AND UNKNOWN IN EVERY
QUARREL FOR A CONFLICT TO EXIST. or FOR A QUARREL TO OCCUR, AN UNKNOWN
THIRD PARTY MUST BE ACTIVE IN PRODUCING IT BETWEEN TWO POTENTIAL OPPONENTS.
or WHILE IT IS COMMONLY BELIEVED TO TAKE TWO TO MAKE A FIGHT, A THIRD PARTY
MUST EXIST AND MUST DEVELOP IT FOR ACTUAL CONFLICT TO OCCUR. It is very
easy to see that two in conflict are fighting. They are very visible. What
is harder to see or suspect is that a third party existed and actively
promoted the quarrel. The usually unsuspected and "reasonable" third party,
the bystander who denies any part of it is the one that brought the
conflict into existence in the first place. The hidden third party, seeming
at times to be a supporter of only one side, is to be found as the
instigator. This is a useful law on many dynamics. It is the cause of war.
One sees two fellows shouting bad names at each other, sees them come to
blows. No one else is around. So they, of course, "caused the fight". But
there was a third party. Tracing these down, one comes upon incredible
data. That is the trouble. The incredible is too easily rejected. One way
to hide things is to make them incredible. Clerk A and Messenger B have
been arguing. They blaze into direct conflict. Each blames the other.
NEITHER ONE IS CORRECT AND SO THE QUARREL DOES NOT RESOLVE SINCE ITS TRUE
CAUSE IS NOT ESTABLISHED. One looks into such a case THOROUGHLY. He finds
the incredible. The wife of Clerk A has been sleeping with Messenger B and
complaining alike to both about the other. Farmer J and Rancher K have been
tearing each other to pieces for years in continual conflict. There are
obvious, logical reasons for the fight. Yet it continues and does not
resolve. A close search finds Banker L who, due to their losses in the
fighting, is able to loan each side money, while keeping the quarrel going,
and who will get then-lands completely if both lose. It goes larger. The
revolutionary forces and the Russian government were in conflict in 1917.
The reasons are so many the attention easily sticks on them. But only when
Germany's official state papers were captured in World War II was it
revealed that Germany had promoted the revolt and financed LENIN to spark
it off, even sending him into Russia in a blacked out train! One looks over
"personal" quarrels, group conflicts, national battles and one finds, if he
searches, the third party, unsuspected by both combatants or if suspected
at all, brushed off as "fantastic". Yet careful documentation finally
affirms it. ____________________ This datum is fabulously useful. In
marital quarrels the correct approach of anyone counseling, is to get both
parties to carefully search out the third party. They may come to many
reasons at first. These reasons are not beings. One is looking for a third
party, an actual being. When both find the third party and establish proof,
that will be the end of the quarrel. Sometimes two parties, quarreling,
suddenly decide to elect a being to blame. This stops the quarrel.
Sometimes it is not the right being and more quarrels thereafter occur. Two
nations at each other's throats should each seek conference with the other
to sift out and locate the actual third party. They will always find one if
they look, and they can find the right one. As it will be found to exist in
fact. ____________________ There are probably many technical approaches one
could develop and outline in this matter. There are many odd phenomena
connected with it. An accurately spotted third party is usually not fought
at all by either party but only shunned. Marital conflicts are common.
Marriages can be saved by both parties really sorting out who caused the
conflicts. There may have been, in the whole history of the marriage
several, but only one at a time. Quarrels between an individual and an
organisation are nearly always caused by an individual third party or a
third group. The organisation and the individual should get together and
isolate the third party by displaying to each other all the data they each
have been fed. Rioters and governments alike could be brought back to
agreement could one get representatives of both to give each other what
they have been told by whom. SUCH CONFERENCES HAVE TENDED TO DEAL ONLY IN
RECRIMINATIONS OR CONDITIONS OR ABUSES. THEY MUST DEAL IN BEINGS ONLY IN
ORDER TO SUCCEED. This theory might be thought to assert also that there
are no bad conditions that cause conflict. There are. But these are usually
REMEDIAL BY CONFERENCE UNLESS A THIRD PARTY IS PROMOTING CONFLICT. In
history we have a very foul opinion of the past because it is related by
recriminations of two opponents and has not spotted the third party.
"Underlying causes" of war should read "hidden promoters". There are no
conflicts which cannot be resolved unless the true promoters of them remain
hidden. ____________________ This is the natural law the ancients and
moderns alike did not know. And not knowing it, being led off into
"reasons" whole civilizations have died. It is worth knowing. It is worth
working with in any situation where one is trying to bring peace.
L. RON HUBBARD LRH:ei.rd Founder Copyright c 1968 by L. Ron Hubbard
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 24 FEBRUARY 1969 Remimeo AN ETHICS POLICY LETTER
JUSTICE In an extension of 3rd Party technology (see HCOB of THIRD PARTY
LAW) I have found that false reports and suppression are very important in
3rd Party Technology. We know as in the above HCOB that a Third Party is
necessary to any quarrel. Basically it is a 3 Terminal Universe. In
reviewing several org upsets I have found that the 3rd Party can go
completely overlooked even in intensive investigation. A 3rd Party adds up
to suppression by giving false reports on others. In several cases an org
has lost several guiltless staff members. They were dismissed or
disciplined in an effort to solve enturbulation. Yet the turbulence
continued and the area became even more upset by reason of the dismissals.
Running this back further one finds that the real 3rd Party, eventually
unearthed got people shot by FALSE REPORTS. One source of this is as
follows: Staff Member X goofs. He is very furious and defensive at being
accused. He blames his goof on somebody else. That somebody else gets
disciplined. Staff Member X diverts attention from himself by various means
including falsely accusing others. This is a 3rd Party action which results
in a lot of people being blamed and disciplined. And the real 3rd Party
remaining undetected. The missing point of justice here is that the
disciplined persons were not faced with their accusers and were not given
the real accusation and so could not confront it. Another case would be a
3rd Party simply spreading tales and making accusations out of malice or
some even more vicious motive. This would be a usual 3rd Party action. It
is ordinarily based on False Reports. Another situation comes about when an
executive who can't get an area straight starts to investigate, gets 3rd
Party False Reports about it, disciplines people accordingly and totally
misses the real 3rd Party. This enturbulates the area even more. The basis
of all really troublesome 3rd Party activities is then FALSE REPORTS. There
can also be FALSE PERCEPTION. One sees things that don't exist and reports
them as "fact". Therefore we see that we can readily run back an
investigation by following a chain of false reports. In at least one case
the 3rd Party (discovered only after it was very plain that only he could
have wrecked two divisions, one after the other) also had these
characteristics: 1. Goofed in his own actions; 2. Furiously contested any
knowledge reports or job endangerment chits filed on him; 3. Obsessively
changed everything when taking over an area; 4. Falsely reported actions,
accusing others; 5. Had a high casualty rate of staff in his division or
area. These are not necessarily common to all 3rd Parties but give you an
idea of what can go on. _________________________________________ After a
lot of experience with Ethics and justice I would say that the real source
of upset in an area would be FALSE REPORTS accepted and acted upon without
confronting the accused with all charges and his or her accusers. An
executive should not accept any accusation and act upon it. To do so
undermines the security of one and all. What an executive should do, on
being presented with an accusation or down stats or "evidence" is conduct
an investigation of false reports and false perceptions. An area is
downstat because of one or more of the following: 1. No personnel; 2.
Personnel not trained; 3. Cross orders (senior orders unattended because of
different junior orders); 4. Area doing something else than what it is
supposed to do; 5. An adjacent area dumping its hat; 6. False perception
leading to false stats; 7. False reports by rumour or misunderstanding; 8.
False reports from single rare instances becoming accepted as the condition
of the whole; 9. False reports on others defensively intended; 10. False
reports on others maliciously intended (real 3rd Party); 11. Injustices
cumulative and unremedied; 12. Actions taken on others without
investigation and without confronting them with their accusers or the data.
This is a list of probable causes for an upset or downstat area. SECURITY
The personal security of the staff member is so valuable to him apparently
that when it is undermined (by false accusations or injustice) he becomes
less willing and less efficient and is the real reason for a PTS condition.
JUSTICE The only thing which can actually remedy a general insecure feeling
is a renewed faith in justice. Justice would consist of a refusal to accept
any report not substantiated by actual, independent data, seeing that all
such reports are investigated and that all investigations include
confronting the accused with the accusation and where feasible the accuser,
BEFORE any disciplinary action is undertaken or any condition assigned.
While this may slow the processes of justice, the personal security of the
individual is totally dependent upon establishing the full truth of any
accusation before any action is taken.
_________________________________________ Harsh discipline may produce
instant compliance but it smothers initiative. Positive discipline is in
itself a stable datum. People are unhappy in an area which is not well
disciplined because they do not know where they stand. An area where only
those who try to do their jobs are disciplined encourages people to hide
and be inactive. But all discipline must be based on truth and must exclude
acting on false reports. Therefore we get a policy: Any false report
leading to the unjust discipline of another is an act of TREASON by the
person making the false report and the condition should be assigned and its
penalties fully applied. A condition of DOUBT should be assigned any person
who accepts and disciplines another unjustly on the basis of a report which
subsequently turns out to have been false.
_________________________________________ This then is the primary
breakdown of any justice system-that it acts on false reports, disciplines
before substantiation and fails to confront an accused with the report and
his accuser before any discipline is assigned, or which does not weigh the
value of a person in general against the alleged crime even when proven.
LRH: ldm.ei.rd L. RON HUBBARD Copyright c 1969 Founder by L. Ron
Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 7 DECEMBER 1969
Remimeo All Exec Hats HCO Area Hat I & R Hat
ETHICS, THE DESIGN OF
It is very easy for a staff member and even an Ethics Officer to
completely misunderstand Ethics and its functions. In a society run by SPs
and controlled by incompetent police the citizen almost engramically
identifies any justice action or symbol with oppression. Yet in the absence
of true Ethics no one can live with others and stats go down inevitably. So
a justice function must exist to protect producers and decent people. To
give you an example, when a little boy this life, the neighborhood a block
around and the road from home to school were unusable. A bully about five
years older than I named Leon Brown exerted a very bad influence over other
children. With extortion by violence and blackmail and with corruption he
made the area very dangerous. The road to school was blocked by the 5
O'Connell kids, ranging from 7 to 15 who stopped and beat up any smaller
child. One couldn't go to school safely and was hounded by the truant
officer, a hulking brute complete with star, if one didn't go to school.
When I was about six I got very tired of a bloody nose and spankings
because my clothes were torn and avidly learned "lumberjack fighting" a
crude form of judo from my grandfather. With this "superior tech" under my
belt I searched out and found alone the youngest O'Connell kid, a year
older than I, and pulverized him. Then I found alone and took on the next
in size and pulverized him. After that the O'Connell kids, all 5, fled each
time I showed up and the road to school was open and I convoyed other
little kids so it was safe. Then one day I got up on a 9 foot high board
fence and waited until the 12 year old bully passed by and leaped off on
him boots and all and after the dust settled that neighborhood was safe for
every kid in it. So I learned about justice. Kids would come from blocks
away to get help in their neighborhood. Finally for a mile around it was a
safe environment for kids. From this I learned two lessons: 1. Strength is
nothing without skill and tech and reversely, without skill and tech the
strength of brutes is a matter of contempt. 2. Strength has two sides, one
for good and one for evil. It is the intention that makes the difference.
_______________ On further living I found that only those who sought only
peace were ever butchered. The thousands of years of Jewish passivity
earned them nothing but slaughter. So things do not run right because one
is holy or good. Things run right because one makes them run right. Justice
is a necessary action to any successful society. Without it the brute
attacks the weak, the decent and the productive. There are people who
suppress. They are few. They often rise up to being in charge and then all
things decay. They are essentially psychopathic personalities. Such want
position in order to kill. Such as Ghenghiz Khan, Hitler, psychiatrists,
psychopathic criminals, want power only to destroy. Covertly or overtly
they pay only with death. They arrived where they arrived, in charge of
things, because nobody when they were on their way up said "No". They are
monuments to the cowards, the reasonable people who didn't put period to
them while they were still only small bullies and still vulnerable. Ethics
has to get there before tech can occur. So when it doesn't exist or goes
out then tech doesn't occur and suppression sets in and death follows. So
if someone doesn't hold the line, all become victims of oppression. TWO
SECTIONS The Ethics Section is in Department 3. This department is called
Inspection and Reports. In small orgs there is only one person in that
department. Primarily his duties consist of Inspecting and Reporting to his
divisional head and the Executive Council. That is the first section's
function. WHEN inspection reveals outness and reports (such as graphs or
direct info to the EC) do not result in correction THEN it is a matter for
the second section. The second section of Department 3 is Ethics. Now it is
an Ethics matter. If correctly reported outnesses that threaten the org are
NOT corrected then one assumes that suppression exists. Because he has
files of damage reports and chits and because he can see and investigate,
the Ethics Officer locates WHO is causing outnesses and suppressing the
org. By condition assignments, publication and Comm Evs he gets in Ethics.
It occasionally happens that it is someone high up in the org. It sometimes
happens his seniors or the EC scold him for daring to report on things or
to them. Then he knows the suppression is high up and he is delinquent in
duty if he does not report it to the next highest org and if no action
there right on up to the Sea Org. Anyone removing him for daring to report
the factual results of his inspections can be severely handled by upper
organizations. The Ethics Officer can only be in trouble if he fails to do
his job and keep in Ethics. Hitting people with conditions is such a small
part of Ethics that it is almost an abandonment of post. Letting people be
hit with wrong conditions is a Comm Ev offense. Letting an SP collapse
stats or an org is a shooting offense. An Ethics Officer uses Ethics to
protect Ethics upstats and keep the stats up and to smoke out crimes that
push people and stats down. It is a simple function. The basic duties of
Dept 3 are what it says. Inspection and Reports. These alone usually work.
When they don't and stats fall or people fall off the org board, one goes
into Ethics actions. You don't let incompetent and suppressive people on
staff in the first place and you crowd Ethics in on them if they're found
to be there. You DON'T confuse an executive's effort to get the stats up
with suppression. The E/0 is making the environment safe so that production
can occur and service can be given. He is making it unsafe for those who by
neglect or continual errors or suppression push stats down and get good
staff members to leave. If none of this is well understood and yet someone
is making it impossible to work, find a 9 foot high board fence..... The
E/0 must know his Ethics policy. He must understand why he is there. And
the rest of the people in the org should understand it too.
L. RON HUBBARD Founder
LRH:rs.ldm.rd Copyright c 1969 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 23 SEPTEMBER 1967
Remimeo Page 1 of Every Hat
NEW POST FORMULA THE CONDITIONS FORMULAS
Every new appointee to a post begins in non-existence. Whether
obtained by new appointment, promotion or demotion. He is normally under
the delusion that now he is "THE........." (new title). He tries to start
off in power condition as he is usually very aware of his new status or
even a former status. But in actual fact he is the only one aware of it.
All others except perhaps the personnel officer are utterly unaware of him
as having his new status. Therefore he begins in a state of non-existence.
And if he does not begin with the non-existence formula as his guide he
will be using the wrong condition and will have all kinds of trouble. The
Non-Existence Formula is 1. Find a comm line 2. Make yourself known 3.
Discover what is needed or wanted 4. Do, produce and/or present it. A new
appointee taking over a going concern often thinks he had better make
himself known by changing everything whereas he (a) is not well enough
known to do so and (b) hasn't any idea of what is needed or wanted yet. And
so he makes havoc. Sometimes he assumes he knows what is needed or wanted
when it is only a fixed idea with him and is only his idea and not true at
all and so he fails at his job. Sometimes he doesn't bother to find out
what is really needed or wanted and simply assumes it or thinks he knows
when he doesn't. He soon becomes "unsuccessful". Now and then a new
appointee is so "status happy" or so insecure or so shy that even when his
boss or his staff comes to him and tells him what is needed or wanted he
can't or doesn't even acknowledge and really does go into non-existence for
keeps. Sometimes he finds that what he is told is needed or wanted needs
reappraisal or further investigation. So it is always safest for him to
make his own survey of it and operate on it when he gets his own firm
reality on what is needed or wanted. If the formula is applied
intelligently the person can expect to get into a zone of by-pass where
people are still doing his job to fill the hole his predecessor may have
left. This is a Danger Condition-but it is the next one higher than non-
existence on the scale. If he defends his job and does his job and applies
the Danger Formula he will come through it. He can then expect to find
himself in Emergency Condition. In this he must follow the Emergency
Formula with his post and he will come through it. He can now expect to be
in Normal Operation and if he follows the formula of that, he will come to
Affluence. And if he follows that formula he will arrive at Power. And if
he applies the Power Formula he will stay there. So it is a long way from
Power that one starts his new appointment and if he doesn't go UP the scale
from where he really is at the start, he will of course fail. This applies
to groups, to organizations, to countries as well as individuals. It also
applies when a person fails at his job. He has to start again at non-
existence and he will build up the same way condition by condition. Most
failures on post are occasioned by failures to follow the Conditions and
recognize them and apply the formula of the condition one is in when one is
in it and cease to apply it when one is out of it and in another. This is
the secret of holding a post and being successful on a job or in life.
_________________ Here are the formulas of conditions given in order of
advance upward:
NON-EXISTENCE 1. Find a comm line 2. Make yourself known 3. Discover
what is needed or wanted 4. Do, produce and/or present it.
DANGER 1. By-pass (ignore the junior normally in charge of the
activity, handle it personally). 2. Handle the situation and any danger in
it. 3. Assign the area where it had to be handled a Danger Condition. 4.
Handle the personnel by Ethics Investigation and Comm Ev. 5. Reorganize the
activity so that the situation does not repeat. 6. Recommend any firm
policy that will hereafter detect and/or prevent the condition from
recurring. The senior executive present acts and acts according to the
formula above.
EMERGENCY 1. Promote, that applies to an organization. To an
individual you had better say produce. That's the first action regardless
of any other action, regardless of anything else, why that is the first
thing you have to put their attention on. The first broad big action which
you take is promote. Exactly what is promotion? Well, look it up in the
dictionary. It is making things known; it is getting things out; it is
getting one's self known, getting one's products out. 2. Change your
operating basis. If for instance you went into a condition of emergency and
then you didn't change after you had promoted, you didn't make any changes
in your operation, well you just head for another condition of emergency.
So that has to be part of it, you had better change your operating basis,
you had better do something to change the operating basis, because that
operating basis lead you into an emergency so you sure better change it. 3.
Economize. 4. Then prepare to deliver. 5. Part of the Condition of
Emergency contains this little line-you have got to stiffen discipline or
you have got to stiffen Ethics. Organizationally when a state of emergency
is assigned supposing the activity doesn't come out of that emergency,
regardless of what caused the emergency, supposing the activity just
doesn't come out of the emergency, in spite of the fact they have been
labelled a state of emergency, they have been directed to follow the
formula, they have been told to snap and pop and get that thing
straightened out, and they are still found to be goofing, the statistic is
going down and continues to go down, what do you do? There is only one
thing left to do and that is discipline because life itself is going to
discipline the individual. So the rule of the game is that if a state of
emergency is ignored and the steps are not taken successfully then you get
an announcement after a while that the condition has been continued and if
the condition is continued beyond a specified time, why that's it, it has
to walk forward into an Ethics matter.
NORMAL OPERATION 1. The way you maintain an increase is when you are
in a state of Normal Operation you don't change anything. 2. Ethics are
very mild, the justice factor is quite mild, there are no savage actions
taken particularly. 3. A statistic betters then look it over carefully and
find out what bettered it and then do that without abandoning what you were
doing before. 4. Every time a statistic worsens slightly, quickly find out
why and remedy it. And you just jockey those two factors, the statistic
bettering, the statistic worsening, repair the statistic worsening, and you
will find out inevitably some change has been made in that area where a
statistic worsens. Some change has been made, you had better get that
change off the lines in a hurry.
AFFLUENCE 1. Economize. Now the first thing you must do in Affluence
is economize and then make very very sure that you don't buy anything that
has any future commitment to it, don't buy anything with any future
commitments, don't hire anybody with any future commitments-nothing. That
is all part of that economy, clamp it down. 2. Pay every bill. Get every
bill that you can possibly scrape up from any place, every penny you owe
anywhere under the sun, moon and stars and pay them. 3. Invest the
remainder in service facilities, make it more possible to deliver. 4.
Discover what caused the Condition of Affluence and strengthen it. POWER 1.
The first law of a Condition of Power is don't disconnect. You can't just
deny your connections, what you have got to do is take ownership and
responsibility for your connections. 2. The first thing you have got to do
is make a record of all of its lines. And that is the only way you will
ever be able to disconnect. So on a Condition of Power the first thing you
have to do is write up your whole post. You have made it possible for the
next fellow in to assume the state of Power Change. If you don't write up
your whole post you are going to be stuck with a piece of that post since
time immemorial and a year or so later somebody will still be coming to you
asking you about that post which you occupied. 3. The responsibility is
write the thing up and get it into the hands of the guy who is going to
take care of it. 4. Do all you can to make the post occupiable.
POWER CHANGE There are only two circumstances which require
replacement, the very successful one or the very unsuccessful one. What a
song it is to inherit a successful pair of boots, there is nothing to it,
just step in the boots and don't bother to walk. If it was in a normal
state of operation, which it normally would have been in for anybody to
have been promoted out of it, you just don't change anything. So anybody
wants anything signed that your predecessor didn't sign, don't sign it.
Keep your eyes open, learn the ropes and, depending on how big the
organization is, after a certain time, why see how it is running and run it
as normal operating condition if it's not in anything but a normal
operating condition. Go through the exact same routine of every day that
your predecessor went through, sign nothing that he wouldn't sign, don't
change a single order, look through the papers that had been issued at that
period of time-these are the orders that are extant and get as busy as the
devil just enforcing those orders and your operation will increase and
increase. Now the fellow who walks into the boots of somebody who has left
in disgrace had better apply the state of emergency formula to it, which is
immediately promote.
_________________
WISHING YOU SUCCESS.
L. RON HUBBARD Founder
LRH:jp.rd Copyright c 1967 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 7 FEBRUARY 1970 (Adds to HCO Pol Ltr 23 Sept
1967, New Post Formula, The Conditions Formulas) Remimeo DANGER CONDITION
2nd Formula The Danger Condition for the person assigning the condition has
been long known and published. However, out of all the original formulas
conditions published, DANGER is the only condition which has not had a
formula for the person or activity to which it was assigned. There are
therefore TWO DANGER FORMULAS. One is for the person who assigns the
condition. This is (as originally released) 1. Bypass (ignore the junior
normally in charge of the area, handle it personally). 2. Handle the
situation and any danger in it. 3. Assign the area where it had to be
handled a Danger Condition. 4. Handle the personnel by Ethics Investigation
and Comm Ev. 5. Reorganize the activity so that the situation does not
repeat. 6. Recommend any firm policy that will hereafter detect and/or
prevent the situation from recurring. That formula, fully valid, is for a
senior. If he doesn't follow it, he will always be in trouble. BUT HOW
ABOUT THE PERSON, UNIT, ORG OR ACTIVITY TO WHICH THE DANGER CONDITION WAS
ASSIGNED? The one on the receiving end has not had a formula to follow. I
have worked out the SECOND DANGER FORMULA, meaning the formula applied by
the person, unit, org or activity which has been assigned a DANGER
CONDITION. A. List the consequences if the situation had remained
unhandled. B. Work out any conflicts of orders which prevent compliance and
production and get them adjusted. C. Work out any misunderstoods and get
them clarified. D. Survey and improve comm outflow and inflow. E.
Reorganize Mest (Matter Energy Space and Time) more efficiently. F. Work
out means of becoming more secure. G. Present the completed formula in
writing as above to the one who assigned the condition for permission to
upgrade. _________________ All these actions A to G apply to the subject
and area of the person, unit, org or activity, whichever has been assigned
the DANGER CONDITION. Above all, be sincere, courteous and honest in
applying the formula.
L. RON HUBBARD LRH:jz.rd Founder Copyright c 1970 by L. Ron Hubbard
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
[Cancelled by HCO P/L 9 AprU 1972, Correct Danger Condition Handling,
in the 1972 Year Book.] HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 5 JANUARY 1968
Remimeo ETHICS DEVT POL LTR #2 IN EVERY HAT CONDITIONS ORDERS
EXECUTIVE ETHICS
ANY EXECUTIVE MAY ASSIGN ANY CONDITION AND IMPROVE ANY CONDITION HE
ASSIGNS TO ANY PERSON IMMEDIATELY JUNIOR TO HIM ON HIS COMMAND CHANNEL OR
WITHIN HIS OWN OFFICE OR AREA. To assign or improve a Condition it is only
necessary to write the order and send it to Mimeo or the duplication unit
which duplicates it and sends the copies to Dir Comm for issue. The Ethics
Officer files these in the Ethics Files and a copy in the file of the
issuing executive. The E/0 must see that the order is complied with and the
formula followed. The issuing executive must also demand compliance. In
event of a down statistic of an executive's area of control, the absence of
personally issued Ethics Conditions Orders may constitute grounds for
removal on a charge of out-ethics in his area. An executive who tolerates
non-compliance, false reports or down stats in his control area without
taking personal ethics actions as above is not an executive. AN ORDER SO
ISSUED IS CALLED A "CONDITIONS ORDER" AND IS PUBLISHED ON THE DIVISIONAL
FLASH COLOUR PAPER NOT GOLDENROD. Where a Mimeo or duplication line jams,
an executive may post the order in his own handwriting on the staff notice
board, filing two copies with the E/0, all on his division's colour flash
paper, using carbon paper and clip board. No executive may be removed for
issuing Conditions Orders but may be removed for not issuing them in the
presence of non-compliance, false reports or down stats. An executive is
defined as anyone in charge of an org, part of an org, a division, a
department, a section or a unit. As Scientology now brings TOTAL freedom,
it must also have the power and authority to bring total discipline or it
will not survive. Heavy In-Baskets, inability to get things done, down
stats failures all stem from non-application of ethics. If Ethics is in one
can get in Tech. If Tech is in one can get in Admin. Fast flow depends on a
total flow without inspection. Therefore Ethics has to be very harsh when
errors occur otherwise the whole line stops. Students and pcs are also
subject to Conditions Orders from their supervisors and auditors.
L. RON HUBBARD Founder
LRH:jp.rd Copyright c 1968 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 30 APRIL 1965
Remimeo
EMERGENCY, STATE OF
When an org or portion of an org has consistently down statistics
(O.I.C.) or numerous non-compliances or offences, it is declared to be in a
STATE OF EMERGENCY. This can be assigned to a unit, sub-section, section,
department, division or the entire organization. It is not assigned to a
person. A small flag on a pin is placed on the org board at the end of the
org board name of the portion or organization. The flag is bright red. The
condition is assigned only by the Office of LRH. Flags are also used for
other conditions assigned. These too are assigned only by the Office of
LRH. Conditions including Emergency are ended when a new condition is
assigned or just ended. This is done only by the Office of LRH. To end an
Emergency condition the portion of Scientology to which it is assigned must
follow closely the Emergency Formula. On any condition assigned, its
formula must be followed scrupulously and the steps taken must be reported
one by one by the most senior person in the portion. In the case of an org
in Emergency the reports are made to the Office of LRH Saint Hill by the
HCO Executive Secretary or HCO Area Secretary in the absence of an HCO
Executive Secretary. In addition to following the Emergency formula
closely, the following policies apply to the portion in a State of
Emergency: ETHICS STIFFENED 1. A report of an error, misdemeanour or crime
on any staff member in that portion counts as five reports in other
conditions and is acted on by a Court of Ethics at once. CREDIT WORTHLESS
2. The credit of the portion is worthless and it may have only those bare
things necessary to carry out the Emergency formula so that it can promote
or deliver. NO NEW PERSONNEL 3. No personnel may be added to the portion in
a State of Emergency. No new people may be hired on for the portion in a
State of Emergency. No personnel may be transferred to a portion that is in
a State of Emergency unless an incumbent is transferred off, and in such a
way that the personnel of the portion does not increase in number. RIGHTS
4. Precedent and privilege are suspended for the officers and staff members
of a portion in a State of Emergency. STATUS 5. No staff status may be
increased in a portion in a State of Emergency. If the State of Emergency
is continued beyond the allotted time period, then these policies apply: 6.
Deputy, Acting and Provisional assignments and appointments are cancelled
throughout the portion. 7. The fact of having been part of a portion which
did not recover is filed in the personnel files of each staff member
present in that portion at the moment the State of Emergency was assigned,
and the statement is made on a red sheet of paper. 8. The executive
personnel will be ordered before a Committee of Evidence to the end of
removing them from the portion or demotion. In the case of an org this is
done by a senior org and in the case of Saint Hill by the Office of LRH.
___________________ The State of Emergency is a serious condition. For it
takes a series of serious blunders to reduce statistics or bring about
local infamy or a public or press smear campaign. The State is not idly
assigned and is assigned only after a steadily declining statistic or a
series of non - compliances or offences resulting in overwork for seniors
of the org or near catastrophe. ___________________ Persons newly
transferred into a portion in Emergency or promoted in it are governed by
these policies: 9. Persons newly transferred into a portion in Emergency
are only affected by the State if they succumb to their working conditions
and cease to do a normal job of work. 10. An executive newly transferred to
a portion in a State of Emergency is not personally liable to Ethics unless
he or she fails to submit Executive Reports on what is observed and new
offences found in the portion. 11. Taking charge of a post in an Emergency
portion by new assignment and bringing that post up to normal operation is
credited in the Office of LRH personnel records on a white sheet with blue
ink and counts heavily in new appointments from Saint Hill. 12. A person in
the portion to which the State of Emergency has been assigned at the time
it was assigned who is promoted, is only assigned temporarily, but if he or
she succeeds in restoring the post's statistics in a reasonable time
period, the fact is noted in the Office of LRH personnel records, but the
fact is also noted that the person was already in the portion at the time
of Emergency and must be cleared of any suspicion that the original
Emergency was not traceable to him or her before the assignment can become
an appointment. HOW TO PREVENT AN EMERGENCY 13. Don't accept illegal orders
from anyone that are contrary to policy. 14. Do not let the orders of a
higher superior be changed by one's immediate superior. Always follow the
higher superior's orders and request to see them in writing when in doubt.
15. Don't "cover up" for others. Report offences to Ethics in writing. 16.
Report any immediate superior's illegal orders or alter-is as an effort to
endanger one's job and statistics. 17. Do your post by the book. 18. When
you actually can't apply a policy report it at once to the Office of LRH
Policy Review Section with all data (not conclusions) so that it can be
reviewed intelligently and meanwhile apply it as best you can. 19. Handle
Dev-T (off-line, off-origin, off-policy) by sending it back to sender and
reporting it to Ethics. 20. If you see people standing about loafing when
they should be working report it to Ethics. 21. Report things that need
improving to your Secretary or to your Executive Secretary. 22. Don't let
technology slip for technology going out is the only basic circumstance in
your portion of an org or the org that can put it beyond rapid recovery.
Report all alter-is or technical omissions or offences to Ethics promptly.
23. Do your own job as well as you possibly can and aside from making
required reports let the rest of your portion or org get on with it. 24. If
you are not being permitted to do your assigned job by being pulled off it
or by being given off-policy orders or by letting an immediate superior
endanger your job with illegal orders or alter-is, report it to my office
at Saint Hill as well as to your own Ethics Section, even if you have to go
outside the org and off channels to get the report (with your home address
on it) to me; for there is no surer way to bring about or continue an
Emergency Condition than by failing to comply with the exact orders being
issued in an effort to end it. ___________________ We have the whole world
to handle now. We must set a high example of teamwork and dedication if we
are to bring it off. The scraggly militia usually go down before the
regulars in any campaign. The regular is not even better, man for man, than
the militia. The regulars know how to operate as a team. They have
confidence in one another. And even when numerically inferior they bring
off victory over a rabble by co-operation and discipline amongst
themselves. We are very very few in numbers compared to two and a half
billion wogs. We can easily make it technically the world around IF we are
a high precision team in a superiorly organized organization. At the moment
I write this policy letter, in the Case-Cracking Section at Saint Hill we
are handling every case from psychotic or neurotic to release in 8 to 35
hours. The technical impact of this alone is enough to tear Man's faulty
organizations to ribbons. To that fact (itself enough) add the actual
attainment of real clearing. Once more there goes Man as he has known it.
To that add the upper structure of OT and there goes an aberrated Universe.
And only if we ourselves are a highly functional precision team can we hope
to stand up. We are just at the end of our Dissemination Phase and just at
the beginning of our Organization Phase (the Third Phase as you can see on
the Org Board). Our militia days are over. We have no choice whatever
except to become the best organized precision team that has ever been
known. Therefore we must be able to recognize, assign and handle any
Emergency that arises in our midst.
L. RON HUBBARD Note: Man's organizations never recognized the need for
statistics and the recognition of Emergency or its signs. Therefore, for
instance, a government bureau, in a Condition of Emergency, is given the
right to buy anything it wants (thus breaking the government, as Emergency
type people always have to have before they can do) and is given the
solution of putting in personnel and more personnel "to get the work done"
when actually it was Dev-T of those already there that brought about their
Emergency. Thus one realizes one must never pour in more and more personnel
when a statistic goes down. One must change the situation, not multiply the
numbers of those involved. It tells us at once that Man is, therefore,
least efficient in his biggest bureaus! And that his least efficient
organization must be his largest organization-you have it-the government.
An organization should only increase in size as things get better and never
when things get worse.
LRH:wmc.rd Copyright c 1965 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 1 SEPTEMBER 1965
Issue III Gen Non-Remimeo
MAILING LIST POLICIES
(Preserved policy from former Policy Letters which have been
cancelled)
The elementary Emergency formula for a down org is: 1. Promote Promote
Promote. 2. Then change bad spots and re-organize. 3. Then economize, cut
off all Purchase Orders except postage, communications and rent. 4. Get
ready to Deliver to the people who will be coming in as a result of the
promotion and deliver. To promote you must have a full mailing list. Anyone
who failed to get his mailing list back off old invoices will probably make
about thirty or forty thousand pounds less between now and Christmas-which
is punishment enough for not following my late '64 orders where the job was
skimped. I see two orgs that are limping also have a very small mailing
list. Any connection? Rush the project ordered in '64 wherein you culled
your addresses back from old invoices and you'll have lots of people and
money again. Sciento legists never get truly lost. Then get onto Book
Promotion, put a return self-address card for "more info" in the back of
every book you sell and get your list up both from the book sale and the
card. Omitted that? Look over the earlier 1965 Policy Letters that define
promotion. That's all it is. But promotion is successful when you use books
to front for you and a flop when you don't. If you think promotion is
costly it's because the money isn't invested in getting books sold. Books
are your first line of promotion. Re-organize your book department if it
doesn't slam back a book at every orderer within 24 hours of the receipt of
the order. Why be poor all the time? 1. Place ads 2. Get mailing lists from
anywhere. 3. Get mailing lists by selling books. 4. Sell more books to
them. 5. Have good processing available for them and say so loudly. 6. Have
good training available for them and say so loudly. Do just those things
and do only those things and you'll be 10 times your size with a lot more
pay. It's very easy. Why keep doing it the hard way? I'm interested in
review that only those orgs are poor which haven't been following my direct
orders. Well, anybody has a right to be poor, I suppose, if he has an
appetite for it. Personally I don't care for it. It must be a carefully
acquired taste. As a brand new idea in those orgs that are struggling, why
not get rich by doing what Ron says?
HANDLING NEW ADDRESSES IN CENTRAL ORGS AND OFFICES Starting right
away, this is the drill for new book buyers. This drill also will be kept
in and followed. 1. A person buys a book personally or by mail./w the first
time. 2. The invoice is made out with the name and address bright and clear
on all copies. 3. One copy goes to shipping or books whether mailed or just
handed out. 4. One copy goes to own Address. (This is true of all orgs
including City Offices. Whatever is done with remaining invoice copies is
according to standard accounts procedure.) 5. Address cuts a plate or
stencil and puts a date on it and a designation like BB 3/3/65, meaning the
person bought a book on 3/3/65. 6. This plate is put in File A and receives
whatever goes out to File A for six months. 7. Any new invoice, indeed all
invoices, go to Address. If a BB in File A buys more books or training or
processing Address obliterates the BB 3/3/65 on the plate or stencil either
by just flattening it on a metal plate or cutting a new stencil in case of
less durable stencils, and puts it in the regular active files. 8. The
Distribution Secretary must not place whole lists in the hands of Field
Staff Members but may send prospects to Field Staff Members of proven value
to the org. CITY OFFICES City Offices must send a copy of the invoice of
all memberships it sells or issues free to the Continental Office that
issues the Continental Magazine. It must also send a copy of all other
invoices for whatever service, including book sales, to the Continental
Office, so that these people can get the minor issues of the Continental
Magazine, plus any other promotional mailings that go out from the
Continental Office. As the City Office has collected the membership money
for the memberships that the Continental Office is servicing with
magazines, and as the Continental Office does promotion for the City
Offices, the senior org draws on the junior org's Book Acct for promotion
in the junior org's area. A City Office must maintain some sort of an
Address unit, and Central Files. Until it has funds for buying addressing
equipment, it keeps a card file for each name in its Central Files which is
anyone who has bought service (includes PE) or bought books, with
appropriate abbreviations on the card to match tabbing of a full Central
Org Addressograph. Of course, in such a case, when a mailing is to be done
by the City Office, then it will be necessary for someone to type
duplistickers from this card file-but that is still an address unit
functioning. As it can accumulate funds for equipment, it can get an
Elliott addressing machine or some other piece of inexpensive equipment for
addressing. It is not conceived that an Addressograph would be secured
until the City Office had reached full Central Org size. The silk screen
Elliott Addressograph is probably cheaper and easier to use than
duplistickers even as one can write one as fast as a duplisticker. The
names and addresses of City Offices must be carried in each issue of every
magazine mailed by the Continental Office, and other broad promotional
pieces.
L. RON HUBBARD
LRH:ml.rd Copyright c 1965 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 30 SEPTEMBER 1965
Remimeo Advisory Councils Advisory Committees
A11 Divisions STATISTICS FOR DIVISIONS (Note: We will call the
Advisory Council the Ad Council, never AdCoun, to avoid any errors in
confusing it with AdCornm)
Each whole division has a statistic on which it is judged as to
condition. While this gross divisional statistic does not cover all the
statistics of the division, it is the primary divisional statistic. An
ADVISORY COUNCIL meeting can be very brief if it has these statistics
tallied by AdComms and plotted and submitted by OIC. Then when a gross
divisional statistic is up the Ad Council can find out why and reinforce
what caused the rise. And when a gross divisional statistic is down, the Ad
Council can go through all the remaining statistics of that division and
take action accordingly. Thus the Ad Council need not cover all the
statistics of an org at its meeting. Only the gross divisional statistics
and take action only when these vary widely up or down. The Advisory
Committees of the Divisions record all statistics but headline in their
report their gross divisional statistic for quick reference. They include
all their statistics, headline their gross divisional statistic. The gross
divisional statistics are: Exec Division 7 - Gross Income of the Org. This
of course reflects best the total Org operation and is what the Exec
Division is promoted or demoted for so it is the Division 7 Gross
Statistic. HCO Division 1 - Total Org Letters In - Total Org Letters Out.
As HCO has personnel, Ethics and such matters, if they do their job there
is a heavy outflow in of all mail types for HCO and the Org and a heavy
outflow out from all divisions. If the Personnel Officer gets hard workers
and puts their hats on and if Insp & Rpts and Ethics are quick off the mark
and if the HCO Area Sec runs a good division and handles all about, the
Letter In-Letter Out will tell the tale. HCO sees to it, Org pours out
letters and mailing pieces. HCO Dissem Division 2 - Number of new
Enrollments of Students and Pcs for the week, and gross Book Sales.
Although this division has Registration, magazines, etc, etc, all these add
up to enrollments, which of course is the final result of all magazines,
letters, promotion and advance enrollment. Book sales are our oldest index
of future business. Org Division 3 - Credit collections vs Bills paid. It
will be seen that gross income is established by many in the Org but
collections as a special income is purely the Org Division's. Bills paid
require gross money in, so reflect the gross-no money in, no bills paid.
This is a dual statistic which shows the industry of the division in
general. It even touches materiel as no bills paid equals no supplies.
Monies paid into Reserve Payment do not count as Bills Paid. Tech Division
4 - Number of Students and Pcs completed in the week. The number enrolled
is really only partly the Tech Division's as if they give good service they
will get enrollments. However, the completions are the real index of a Tech
Division and show up any weakness of the division. So their statistic is
only total completions of courses and auditing. This of course includes
graduations from any course and completion of any result for the pc that
brings a Grade Cert or just ends intensives. Completed of course means only
certified or classed or graded. However completion of a 25 hour intensive
which satisfied the pc (no review at end even if one occurred before the
end) counts as a pc completed. Five hour rehabs which did not result in a
Grade are not completions. Five hour assists bought as assists are done of
course in Qual and so are not a Tech statistic. Qual Division 5 - Cash
Collected by reason of the Division for the week. This division's certs and
grades and awards are all really the Tech Division's work. But we early
found that a Qual Division's various services were paid for when good and
not when bad. So this division's gross statistic is how much cash was paid-
not later collected, for Qual Division services. Dist Division 6 - Number
of field staff member commissions paid/ number of new addresses added to CF
both for the week. This dual statistic reflects a healthy Dist Div. The
number of new addresses added to CF means of course new people buying
things from the org. Therefore its advertising quality and basic services
can be judged even though assisted by other divisions as well. The number
of field staff commissions paid reflects its leadership of field staff
members. New people is the business of the Dist Div. SUMMARY There are many
other statistics, many even more important than these. But these gross
statistics tell one at once if the Division Secretary is alive and has his
division functioning. Thus they provide indicators by which management can
be done. The AdComms of course handle all their statistics. The Ad Council
handles the gross divisional statistics looking for steep ups (to assign
affluence) or steep downs (to assign emergency). Gross Income only
hereafter influences the Exec Division and is assigned from Saint Hill. All
other divisions are assigned conditions by the Ad Council in accordance
with the gross divisional statistics.
L. RON HUBBARD LRH:ml.rd Copyright c 1965 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS
RESERVED
[Note: The last sentence under HCO Div I has been added per HCO P/L 15
December 1965.]
[Considerable evolution of the Statistics for Divisions has occurred
since this policy was first written by LRH. As of August 1973, the
following P/Ls have amended the above issue:
27/4/67 Tech Division Statistic, 1-345, 4-10 18/9/71 AOLA Division 6
Defined, 1971 Year Book 22/9/69 HGC Statistic, 1-357, 4-12 5/12/71
Statistics-Dissem Division, 1971 Year Book 29/3/70 TechandQualStatsRevised,
1970 YearBook 10/2/72 III & revised reissue of 12/6/73 17/6/70 II OIC
Change-Cable Change, 1-359 Higher Org-New Name to C/F Definitions, 5/2/71
III FEBC Executive Director Org GDSes, 1972 & 1973 Year Books 1971 Year
Book 7/6/72 AO and AOSH Money forTraining-GDS 5/2/71 V Org Gross
DivisionalStatistics Revised, forQuals, 1972 Year Book 1971 Year Book
5/4/73 All Orgs-Two Additional HCO GDSes - 12/3/71 II Treasury
DivisionsGDSes - AllOrgs, 3-5 Tech/AdminRatioandPersonnelPointsStats,
2/8/71 III HattingPointsGDS Change, 1971 YearBook 1973 Year Book] HUBBARD
COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 15 JANUARY 1966
Remimeo Exec Sec Hats Secretary Hats
HOLD THE FORM OF THE ORG DON'T BRING ABOUT DANGER CONDITIONS
As long as executives fail to hold firm the form and channels of the
org, their own posts and the org will be a confusion. Worse, it will cease
to exist. Executives must insist upon the privileges and responsibilities
of their posts and not permit by-pass and misrouting. The whole org is run
on statistics. It is not run on rumours. The more you follow statistics and
the less you listen to rumour the better off you will be. Orders are issued
to form the org and better statistics and that's all. There are no other
reasons for orders, chits and upsets. Actions which don't increase
statistics should be eliminated. Irrelevant orders and chits having nothing
to do with statistics should never be issued. To hold the form of the org
it is vital that: 1. The AdCouncil minutes only order Secretaries and only
on Gross Divisional Statistics as they appear. 2. Executive Secretaries
order and chit only Secretaries. 3. That Secretaries order and chit only
Directors. 4. That Directors only order and chit Section Officers. 5. That
Section Officers only order and chit persons In Charge or, if there are
none, the staff directly under them. 6. Exec Sees and Secretaries can cross
chit. 7. Directors can request and chit only via Secretaries when they
cross divisions. 8. Anyone can file a Job Endangerment Chit with Ethics on
anyone. This however is normally filed on a direct senior and only when
explicit policy has been violated by an order or chit on one's own post and
only when the order or chit might worsen a statistic. 9. If all else fails,
petition the Office of LRH. SEC EDS Sec Eds issued by the Adcouncil may
only change Secretaries as personnel. They can advise the Secretary on
personnel but may not demote, transfer or dismiss a Secretary's personnel
(exception, when sweeping an org of temporaries, staff that hasn't passed
Review for Staff Status 1). An AdComm's orders forwarded to the Office.of
LRH for a Sec Ed always go via the Adcouncil. But again an AdComm may only
order Directors and may not demote, transfer or dismiss a Director's
personnel. A Director should order Officers. Officers should order In-
Charges. When personnel is assigned directly to an Executive such as a
personal secretary, one may of course order or chit that person directly as
there is no command echelon.
REASON Danger Conditions are handled on By-Pass. Where a Danger
Condition is assigned, the senior can by-pass anyone to get the job done
and does. The Conditions in sequence are: 6. Power 5. Power Change 4.
Affluence 3. Normal Operation 2. Emergency 1. Danger 0. Non-Existence. By-
pass creates a Danger Condition which drops into Non-Existence from any
level. It is true of all Conditions that if you use one lower than you are
in you will bring the next lower one about. If you use the Normal Operating
Formula when you are in Affluence you will certainly descend into
Emergency. Therefore if you are in Normal or Emergency Condition and start
by-passing you will quickly descend into Danger Condition (statistics will
drop steeply) and achieve the only Condition below Danger which is Non-
Existence. Thus if you by-pass you infer the Condition is Danger when it
isn't. And you drop the org or any portion of it into Non-Existence. So
don't by-pass unless you are in Danger Condition. A Danger Condition exists
where statistics show continuing emergency or a steep steep fall. If a
Danger Condition exists, you handle the situation, by-pass anyone at all
and then the personnel who ignored it. So if you by-pass all the time (Exec
Sees issuing orders to Directors, Secretaries ordering Officers, Directors
ordering general staff members) you will infer a Danger Condition and get
non-existence of the Section, Department, Division or the whole activity.
Moral: Only when a Danger Condition exists should a senior by-pass the
command chain, so if you are only in Emergency or only in Normal Operation
or even Affluence DON'T BY-PASS or you will crush statistics. SUMMARY Learn
your Org Board. Make your staff learn it. Handle the org by statistics
only. Order only your immediate juniors. Don't by-pass (except in Danger
Condition). Don't infer a Danger Condition that doesn't show on a grapn.
Hold the org firm by holding its lines and chain of command firm. And you
will prosper and expand.
L. RON HUBBARD LRH:ml.rd Copyright c 1966 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS
RESERVED
[Note: The sequence of Conditions listed above has been amended to
include Emergency, and the paragraph immediately following this list has
been added, per HCO P/L 8 February 1966, Issue II.] HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS
OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 16 JANUARY 1966
Remimeo Executive Hats
DANGER CONDITION
The Conditions of Operation are (6) Power, (5) Power Change, (4)
Affluence, (3) Normal, (2) Emergency, (1) Danger and (0) Non Existence. The
formula of a Danger Condition is: 1. By-pass (ignore the junior or juniors
normally in charge of the activity and handle it personally). 2. Handle the
situation and any danger in it. 3. Assign the area where it had to be
handled a Danger Condition. 4. Handle the personnel by Ethics Investigation
and Comm Ev. 5. Reorganize the activity so that the situation does not
repeat. 6. Recommend any firm policy that will hereafter detect and/or
prevent the condition from recurring. The senior executive present acts and
acts according to the formula above. A Danger Condition is normally
assigned when: 1. An emergency condition has continued too long. 2. A
statistic plunges downward very steeply. 3. A senior executive suddenly
finds himself or herself wearing the hat of the activity because it is in
trouble. PERSONNEL In Step 4 of the Danger Formula one has to call in
Ethics to investigate and must order a hearing and also a Comm Ev as
indicated on any person or persons whose negligence or non-compliance
brought the situation about. EXAMPLES Example 1 The AdComm of the
Distribution Division never orders or takes effective action to remedy the
gross divisional statistic which has been at continuing emergency level for
some time. The Org Exec Sec is being pulled in to handle the situation as
the statistic's continuous low will swamp the org eventually and no
reasonable advices from the Org Exec Sec have been accepted or used despite
the continuing danger to the org from that Division. The Org Exec Sec
therefore acts personally with personal work and (1) By - passes the
Secretary, (2) Gets the FSM programme going and ads placed and a Congress
scheduled and advertised all on an urgent basis, all on a by-pass of
existing channels, (3) Has the Division assigned a Danger Condition, (4)
Orders an Ethics investigation of all personnel in the Division and brings
any persons whose non-compliances or crimes were responsible before a
Committee of Evidence including the Secretary, (5) Appoints personnel and
reorganizes the Distribution Division, (6) From the Ethics Investigation
and Comm Ev, sifts out any needful policy or change and forwards it to the
Office of LRH for consideration for issue. Example 2 The Letters in-Letters
out statistic takes a very steep dive (perhaps only I /5th the former
number). The HCO Area Sec instantly acts to (1) By-pass all lines, (2) Get
mailings out urgently, put expediters on writing letters, get a magazine in
the mails, all off her own bat, using anyone to hand, (3) Demand the
Dissern and Dist Divs be put in Danger Condition and if refused cables LRH,
(4) Order an Executive Ethics investigation of all areas of outflow that
would be responsible for org outflow and demands of the HCO Exec Sec a Comm
Ev on any personnel found by investigation to have been negligent or non-
compliant with policy concerning letters and any kind of mailing out, and
failing to get such assignment cables LRH, (5) Demand new personnel on key
outflow posts, (6) Recommend any firm policy outgrowing from the
investigation and Comm Ev to the Office of LRH. Example 3 The Tech Sec
suddenly discovers he or she is totally wearing the D of T hat and
statistics are falling in that Dept although there is a D of T. The Tech
Sec has already attempted to get the D of T's hat on many times. The Tech
Sec then: (1) By-passes the D of T, (2) Immediately handles the Academy on
a personal full time basis to sort out the students, establish precise
schedules, get in proper check sheets and routes slow students to Cramming
and nattery ones to Ethics and gets completions going, (3) Gets the
Department assigned a Danger Condition, (4) Demands an Ethics investigation
and a Comm Ev on personnel on whom non-compliance or crimes are discovered,
(5) Gets a new D of T and/or Supervisors, (6) Recommends any firm policy
found required in the Ethics Investigation or Comm Ev.
EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR When I find a hat forced upon me despite all
efforts of mine to handle it previously and which I have then to handle, I
follow the Emergency formula. When an org is in general danger or a
dangerous situation has arisen, I follow the Danger Condition Formula. By
the time anything gets to a point where I have to wear the hat, statistics
on it must have been bad for some time and I find by experience that non-
compliance will be discovered inevitably, which is why the situation rolled
all the way up the lines to me. As Danger Condition is handled by a by-pass
of those who were supposed to handle it, then I also by-pass in assigning a
Danger Condition, which is to say, the Condition is assigned not by chain
of command but by direct Sec Ed.
SUMMARY Emergencies when they continue are usually caused by crimes or
negligence and are always accompanied by non - compliance. A continued
emergency inevitably results in real catastrophe for higher executives. It
causes them heavy overwork at the very least. Sometimes a danger condition
threatens finally the whole org unless handled. In the current society the
manager or executive has no recourse to law or the culture. Errors can be
made or omissions can occur unknown to him, which actually can threaten not
only his job but his person. The usual action in our organizations is to
let things run as long as they run well. When they begin to show poorer
statistics an Emergency Condition is assigned and we usually talk it over
with the person who is head of that activity, and try to help. If the
condition continues we warn. And if the statistics still go down, we
usually transfer and find somebody else. At the point where a senior
executive finds he is being made to look bad by continued emergency on a
lower echelon, he has no choice but to assign a Danger Condition. The head
of the activity is not always removed but certainly must be investigated.
If permanent, it takes a Comm Ev to remove or transfer. It will always be
found that non-compliance with policy and orders has for some time existed.
It will sometimes be found that lies and false reports also existed. And
one always finds negligence and idleness and inattention where statistics
continue to go down. It is very bad to assign a Danger Condition or to By-
Pass unless the statistics are continuing to go down or have continued at a
dangerous level for some time without real improvement. A senior executive
is soft in the head if he thinks statistics just stay down. They are always
held down hard. Emergencies don't just happen because someone is idle.
Emergencies are made actively. It takes a lot of counter-effort to jam an
org's flows-if you don't believe it then measure it by the effort you exert
trying to get things going. What's pushing back so hard? Emergencies are
made. They don't just happen. And any hearing in an area where statistics
just won't come up will reveal not mere negligence but actual crimes as
well. The senior executive's only protection is to handle the bad situation
and follow the Danger Condition formula. If that seems ruthless, it still
is necessary if one is to be at all successful.
ASSIGNMENT Only the Adcouncil, an Executive Secretary or Secretary may
assign a Danger Condition. A Director or Officer may request one on their
sections or personnel. If one was incorrectly assigned and statistics were
in fact up it will of course come out in the hearing.
L. RON HUBBARD
LRH:ml.rd Copyright c 1966 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
[Note: The original mimeo issue of this Policy Letter omitted
Emergency from the Conditions of Operation in the first paragraph.
Emergency has been included here per amending HCO P/L 8 February 1966,
Issue III.] HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 19 JANUARY 1966
Remimeo Staff Hat
DANGER CONDITION, WARNING THE JUNIOR WHO ACCEPTS ORDERS FROM EVERYONE
It has been found in the hearings on personnel after a Danger
Condition was assigned that: A PERSONNEL UNDER YOU WHO ACCEPTS ORDERS FROM
ANYONE WHO COMES ALONG WHO HAS ANY RANK WILL PUT YOUR SECTION, DEPARTMENT
OR DIVISION AND YOU INTO A DANGER CONDITION AUTOMATICALLY. This operates as
a permanent by-pass. If you allow it or don't catch it in time, your
statistics will fall like a shot duck. Therefore if you find a junior going
off lines for his orders and not refusing all orders from others you must
put him in a Danger Condition. For if you don't you will soon be in one
yourself. Danger Condition is a very funny thing. It actually exists as a
natural phenomenon in organizations, hitherto undetected. If by-pass of
command channels occurs, the exact formula will begin to operate whether
anyone says so or not. And the only cure for this plague is to follow the
formula itself. That works. Nothing else does. Be careful of that junior
who accepts anyone's orders. He or she is like a charge of dynamite under
an executive. Someday it will all blow up. Juniors must follow the orders
of their own seniors or Danger Condition results.
L. RON HUBBARD
LRH:ml.rd Copyright c 1966 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF I FEBRUARY 1966
Issue II
Gen Non-Remimeo Exec Sec Hats LRH Comm Hat
Exec Div
DANGER CONDITIONS INSPECTIONS BY EXECUTIVE SECRETARIES, HOW TO DO THEM
An Executive Secretary who does not get around his or her divisions
now and then and see what is going on can make a lot of mistakes.
Inspections are desirable. But when an Executive Secretary makes one he or
she commonly issues an order or two, and if this is done without that
division's secretary being present it is a by-pass and willy-nilly begins
the formula of the Danger Condition and can unmock a section or department
or even that Division. A senior can inspect, chat, advise, but must never
issue an order on a by-pass unless he or she means to handle a dangerous
situation and start the formula. For the formula will run, regardless, if a
by-pass begins. The way to inspect, then, is to collect the seniors and go
around, and issue orders only to the next senior on the command channel,
never to his or her staff. Example: HCO Exec Sec wants to see if books are
stored safely. The HCO Exec Sec can nip out and look on his or her lonesome
providing no orders are issued. Or the HCO Exec Sec grabs the Dissern Sec
and the Dir Pubs and the head of the books section and goes out and looks.
And if the HCO Exec Sec wants a change in it all, the order is issued to
the Dissern Sec only. It is a great temptation to tell Books-in-Charge how
and where to put what, for an HCO Exec Sec is one normally because he or
she is smarter and more knowledgeable about orgs. But if one is to advise
Books-in-Charge, one had better have the rest of the command chain right
there and talk to the next senior below HCO Exec Sec. You would be
surprised how many random currents a senior type senior like an Exec Sec
can set up with a few comments that skip the command channels and what a
mess it can make for a Secretary or Director, no matter how wise the
comments. Secretaries who order a director's officers in the absence of the
director or, much worse, section staff without Director or Section Officer
thereby court and make trouble. You can unmock a section or a whole
department by sloppy command lines. It is not merely the "correct" thing.
It's the vital thing to follow command channels as nobody can hold his job
if he is being by-passed by a senior. He feels unmocked, and the Danger
Condition formula begins to unroll. The correct way to route an order to a
person two or three steps down the command channel is to tell the next one
below you to order the next, and so on. If you have to tell the Director of
Tech Services to have his Housing Officer post a list of houses on the
bulletin board, you really don't have a Director of Tech Services anyway as
he would have done it as the natural thing. So an order in such an obvious
case is not the right comm. The right comm is an Ethics chit on the Dir of
Tech Services for not posting the available houses on the bulletin board. A
smart senior is a senior because he is smarter. But when this is not true
and the junior is smarter, you get an intolerable situation where the
senior interferes. If a dull senior interferes continually on a by-pass,
it's a sure way to start a mutiny. And a senior who doesn't inspect or get
inspections done does not know and so looks dull to his juniors who have
looked. The safe way in all cases is to issue orders that are very standard
on policy and obvious and to issue them to the next one on the command
channel and then in the future inspect or get an inspection. If on the
inspection one finds non-compliance with a standard on-policy order, one
promptly calls for a hearing on the next one down the line who received the
order. Here's a terribly simple example: Org Exec Sec sees statistic for
Tech Div down. Issue order to Tech Sec, "Get the gross divisional statistic
up at once." Now nothing could be plainer or more standard. In two weeks
the Org Exec Sec looks at the statistic, sees it is even further down and
calls for a hearing on the Tech Sec for non-compliance or a Comm Ev to get
all the evidence in about the matter. This is about as basic as you can get
with an inspection, an order and a further action all by a senior, the
inspection being done by QIC and reported by graph. Life in actual fact is
very simple and an org is today a very elementary mechanism. It is easy to
run an organization providing one makes it run and handles things in it
that refuse to run. Where an Exec Sec is baffled on occasion is the
apparent unwillingness of a section to function. Now this is so far down
the command channel that info on it does not easily arrive back at the top.
The thing to do where possible is personally inspect. Or get it inspected.
One often finds the silliest things. Example: Book Shipping statistic is
really down, man, down. One orders and harangues and argues trying to get
books shipped. One gets the quantity of books looked into. It's okay. One
gets shipping materials looked into. They're okay. A Shipping clerk is on
the Org Board. But orders to the Dissern Sec just never get books shipped.
So finally one gathers up the Dissern Sec, Dir Pubs and Books-in-Charge and
goes down to Book Shipping-Lo! They have been building a machine that wraps
books tightly when a rock is rolled off a bench! (This actually happened in
DC in about 1958.) It has taken a month to build it and will require
another to finish it and one and all in that Division are convinced this is
the answer. The order? "Break that machine up and start wrapping books by
hand and I want that backlog gone in one week." To the Dissern Sec, of
course, in front of everyone for his soul's sake. And publish the order in
writing as soon as possible. So you see, you have to inspect because what
seems logical and okay to juniors may be completely silly. Remember, that
is why they are juniors and have seniors. Frankly you can never guess at
what holds some things up. You have to look. Often you can solve it for
them. But solve it with their agreement and on command channel if you want
it done. You can't always sit in an ivory tower and issue orders. You have
to know the ground and the business. Over a period of fifteen years of
active management of these organizations I have a pretty good idea of what
can happen in one. And to one. I try to be right more often than wrong. I
don't try to be perfect as one's best plans are often goofed. I try to get
done what can be gotten done. And I carry a little more pressure on the org
that it can really accomplish. I inspect. You would be surprised at how
often I do and what I find out. It sometimes looks to people that I use a
crystal ball in taking the actions I take because they see no possible
route by which the data could have reached me. They forget how many lines I
keep in operation. And also, I do operate on a "sixth sense". For instance
all accounting summaries today are done for governments, not for
management. A manager has to develop a sixth sense concerning financial
status of the org. One has to be able to know when the bills are up, the
income inadequate and to know when to promote hard and stall creditors even
with no data from accounts or contrary data that proved false. Today with
OIC this is easy. But I ran orgs successfully with no OIC for years just by
sensing the financial situation. In theory accounts keeps one fully posted.
In actual fact they often goof in filing bills owed and even in depositing
money. There are many things one can sense, OIC or no OIC. The thing to do
is to inspect or to get the area you sense is wrong inspected. I have today
LRH Communicators. They are pushing projects home. They also can tell me
why projects won't push home because they have looked. An Exec Sec or a
Secretary has HCO's Inspection and Reports and a Time Machine to check
compliance. And this is how it should be. But nothing will substitute for
inspection by one or for one. And the Exec Sec who thinks it's a desk job
is being very naive. The org would run better if Exec Sees had no in
baskets. If an Exec Sec watched statistics like a hungry cat at a mousehole
and inspected like fury every time one went down or stayed down, the org
would expand and prosper. Providing Inspection was done.
L. RON HUBBARD
LRH:ml.rd Copyright c 1966 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 19 JANUARY 1966
Issue III
Remimeo Executive Hats
DANGER CONDITION RESPONSIBILITIES OF DECLARING
BY-PASS = Jumping the proper terminal in a chain of command. If you
declare a Danger Condition, you of course must do the work necessary to
handle the situation that is dangerous. This is also true backwards. If you
start doing the work of a post on a by-pass you will of course unwittingly
bring about a Danger Condition. Why? Because you unmock the people who
should be doing the work. Further, if you habitually do the work of others
on a by-pass you will of course inherit all the work. This is the answer to
the overworked executive. He or she by-passes. It's as simple as that. If
an executive habitually by-passes he or she will then become overworked.
Also the Condition of Non-Existence will occur. So the more an executive by-
passes, the harder he works. The harder he works on a by-pass, the more the
section he is working on will disappear. So purposely or unwittingly
working on a by-pass, the result is always the same-Danger Condition. If
you have to do the work on a by-pass you must get the Condition Declared
and follow the formula. If you Declare the Condition, you must also do the
work. You must get the work being competently done, by new appointment or
transfer or training or case review. And the condition is not over when the
hearings are over. It is over when that portion of the org has visibly
statistically recovered. So there are great responsibilities in declaring a
Danger Condition. These are outweighed in burdensomeness by the fact that
if you DON'T declare one on functions handled by those under you which go
bad, it will very soon catch up with you yourself, willy-nilly and declared
or not you will go into a Danger Condition personally. There's the frying
pan-there's the fire. The cheerful note about it is that if the formula is
applied you have a good chance of not only rising again but also of being
bigger and better than ever. And that's the first time that ever happened
to an executive who started down the long slide. There's hope!
___________________
There is one further footnote on a Danger Condition. I have carefully
studied whether or not HCOBs and Policy Letters and actions by me were by-
passes. And a search of statistics refutes it as when I give the most
attention to all echelons of an org wherever the org is, its statistics
rise and when I don't they fall. Therefore we must assume that advice is
not a by-pass, nor is a general order by me. Where there is disagreement on
a command channel I am trying to forward then a by-pass occurs. So we can
assume correctly on experience and statistics that danger conditions occur
only when there are fundamental disagreements on a command channel. If you
yourself then ferret out the disagreement ones of those under your orders
you will clear your command lines. Review can always find disagreements
when they exist with a meter. Where Danger Conditions are declared, the
declaring executive should make an effort to find the disagreement with
himself, policy, the org or Scientology as a basic Review action on persons
found responsible for a Danger Condition. The only errors are not to look
for them and not to find all the disagreements the person has on the
subject of his superiors and post, policy, technology or orders. " This is
why a low leadership survey grade person can be counted on to put wherever
he is in danger. His disagreements are too many and he doesn't execute and
thereby secretly puts his superior into by-passing and a danger condition
inevitably occurs. It needn't occur. We have the data, now.
L. RON HUBBARD
LRH:ml.rd Copyright c 1966 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF I FEBRUARY 1966
Issue IV
Remimeo
STATISTICS, ACTIONS TO TAKE STATISTIC CHANGES
When statistics change radically for better or for worse look for the
last major alteration or broad general action just before it and it is
usually the reason. Example: Letter out statistic falls and falls. In
investigating look for the last major change in that area and if possible
cancel it and the statistic will then rise. Let us say that just at the top
of the down drop, the 3rd week in November, the Dept of Registration was
given new dictation equipment. Take it away and restore the old arrangement
and routing pattern that was in use with it and sit back and see what
happens. The statistic will probably recover. Example: The Field Staff
Member Commission statistic has been very low and suddenly leaps to
affluence. You want to reinforce it so you study what happened just before
it. As it takes a bit of time on a statistic that has longer comm lines,
you look a bit earlier. You find the Dir Clearing began to send FSMs big
info packets they could give people. So you okay lots of such info packets
to be given out and the affluence of the statistic continues. And you write
LRH what made it do that so a Pol Ltr can be written. I learned this while
researching the life force of plants. Everytime I saw a research bed of
plants worsen, I queried what routine had been varied and found invariably
some big change had been made that wasn't usual. It is change that changes
things for better or for worse. That's the simplicity of the natural law.
If you want to hold a constant condition, don't change anything. If you are
trying to improve something make changes cautiously and keep a record of
what is changed (like all orders must be by SEC EDs). Then you watch
statistics and if they decline you hastily wipe out the last change. And if
they improve you reinforce the change that began it. For instance we know
the 7 Division System pattern works for the better it's gotten in in an org
the more its graphs go up. The Org Board of summer 1964 also works for a
small org because it started their statistics up. But it was not good
enough to maintain height of statistic when a certain size was reached. So
we got the 7 Division pattern of 1965. It is of course obvious that if Joe
as Org Sec did okay and if replaced with Bill who is only 15 the Org
Division will falter. But frankly it is not just a personnel question by
far. Personnel equates against case gain more than personality. In December
1965 at Saint Hill, the gross divisional statistics very closely matched
the case progress of the Secretaries of each division. You can almost
assign a post by: 1. Grade of Release, and 2. Leadership Survey, plus 3.
Experience in org. Those 3 factors take into no account personality or
aptitude much contrary to all the tests the 19th Century psychologist or
18th Century phrenologist would have made and used. So while personnel
changes are always a possible reason for radical shifts in statistics, they
are by no means the major ones. Shifts of comm lines, functions, policies,
equipment, duties, locations are quite often far more responsible for graph
shifts. Personnel comes into it this way: When you make a bad rearrangement
and you have an incompetent personnel also you have disaster! If you make a
bad rearrangement and the personnel are good the statistic drop may be only
a small one as they cope. So even small drops should be investigated,
particularly around good personnel. The morals are these: If you have a
disaster (big Danger Condition) find the big change which preceded it or
the missed order and get that fixed and also shift personnel. If you see a
person who has a good record coping like mad, inspect the area of that post
to find what needs fixing up, what changes were made that overpressured
that post and get it right. THE PAUSED STATISTIC During expansion, one has
areas where statistics become level. Here statistics pause because lines
jam. People get overworked and confused. The traffic is just too heavy. And
where do you really repair in such a case? More clerks? No! Always look to
the lines of the highest post in the overloaded area and get them eased. In
expansion the person who never notices is the man in charge. And his lines
are the most crippling to the org if jammed. Example: Org Sec and Org
Division stacked up and coping frantically. Org Exec Sec wonders what to
do. Their statistics are paused (in a level line). They are overworked.
Hire more clerks? No. Sort out the Org Sec and be sure more help is
furnished on that post. Then the Org Sec (with a personal Secretary to sort
her mail, etc.) looks up and starts sorting out the Division. The old trick
I used to use was to tell an overworked director "Draw me up a list of all
the hats you are wearing". And he or she would finally bring one in, round-
eyed. "35 hats!" I recall one saying. I would take the one nearest the
director in duties and fill it with a staff member and the department would
ease off. Somebody like the Div 7 Sec or the LRH Communicator can do this
to Exec Sees. If they are slaving, make them put on somebody to unjam their
lines. They'll straighten the rest out. So a paused statistic comes from
the jammed lines of the topmost executives and is best remedied by easing
them.
_________________
An org today is not run on personalities. It's run on statistics. All
orders are based on statistics. The old personality system used by the
business world and military is as yesterday as the rack and almost as
cruel. Go modern. Use statistics only.
L. RON HUBBARD
LRH:ml.rd Copyright c 1966 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 23 FEBRUARY 1966
Remimeo Executive Hats
APPOINTMENTS AND PROMOTIONS
When a staff member is promoted, the principle will be solidly held
that if the post just vacated by him or her goes into Emergency or Danger
Condition within 90 days the promotion is to be suspended and the staff
member is to resume his or her former post. It is obvious that a post which
is not well organized or is held up by personality alone will slump if
changed. A staff member being promoted may therefore object to the
personnel officer concerning a successor he does not believe capable. The
staff member being promoted has a dual responsibility-to learn his new post
and to write up his old hat and break in his successor properly. In
expanding organizations our greatest liability is promotion. It is vital
and necessary, but it tends to lose lines and leave a messy lower strata in
the orgs which can swamp them. This follows as well Policy on undoing
changes which occurred just before a slumped statistic. The Advisory
Council and AdComms must always look at this factor of persons promoted off
a post just before a slump as the probable best reason for the slump.
Similarly a person taking over a new post is in a Power Change Condition
and must not alter anything or do anything rash until enough time passes
for him to appreciate what the new post is all about. Most slumps following
after a promotion occur because the new occupant of the old post has either
lost the post's lines or has made some brand new order that applies to
nothing real. There is no majesty and innocence like ignorance. The first
day of a yacht under a new owner is the hardest day of its life as he
throws all the bits overboard that propped open the hatches thinking they
were kindling wood, tries to hoist the sails with a can opener and runs the
engine on the galley fuel. A staff member is rarely promoted unless his
statistic is good. That means the old post he leaves is in good shape. If
the old post slumps under a new appointee then that new appointee must have
thrown away the lines and ordered the main cabin turned into the sail
locker and the engine into the anchor. It will take the old holder of the
post weeks to get it running again and he is obviously the only one that
can. Further, he goofed in letting an incapable or fast change artist fill
his former shoes and he didn't yell when he noticed next day that the keel
had been hoisted as the mainsail as soon as he, promoted, left his old
post. New brooms love to sweep clean. Especially the competent orders of
old brooms. Taking over a post in danger or emergency is a feather in one's
cap when it rises to normal under new management. Taking over a post in
normal operation and getting it into emergency or danger requires a lot of
stupid changes or no work at all and should be the subject of an Ethics
hearing. But also, the old holder of the post must be returned to it
regardless of holes left at the top for otherwise a hole exists below and
the org will sink into it. I speak from long, hard experience. Time and
again I have had to resume a post I had left because it collapsed. So I
have become very careful of who succeeds me on a post. Very careful indeed.
And I train them individually and heavily no matter what new post I now
hold. The bigger we get the more I get promoted so I have to keep it up.
L. RON HUBBARD LRH:ml.rd Copyright c 1966 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS
RESERVED HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 28 FEBRUARY 1966 Remimeo Exec Sec Hats Sec Hats
LRH Comm Hat Director Hats DANGER CONDITION DATA WHY ORGANIZATIONS STAY
SMALL The size of an organization depends upon this law: A LARGE
ORGANIZATION IS COMPOSED OF GROUPS. A SMALL ORGANIZATION IS COMPOSED OF
INDIVIDUALS. If you really understand this principle and use it properly
you will be able to have a large organization. There are other factors such
as (1) the desirability and quality of one's commodity, (2) the able
promotion of it, (3) the ability of the heads of groups in the organization
to catch dropped balls and (4) the close following and comprehension of the
policies of the organization and its groups. But the gross monitoring law
is as above. When one does not know this and apply it one has a small,
semi - bankrupt organization that overworks everyone and underpays. This
rule applies to a planet or a nation and is most readily seen in these
gross terms. A planet with nations will be far more prosperous than a
planet with one central government governing the individuals of a planet.
Socialism fails (and it always fails) because of two factors: (a) The
government seeks to run the individual, and (b) Socialism unmocks
companies. At this writing the prosperity difference (and there is one,
Russia currently starving) between the democracy of the US and England and
the Super Socialism of Russia is that the "West" still has companies and
the "East" (Russia and China) have abolished them. Russia seeks to run the
individual. It has collective farms, etc., but they won't leave a manager
alone-to manage-they govern his workers. To the degree that England and the
US tax the individual and seek to govern him they will dwindle in size.
England at this writing is undergoing one unmock of the whole empire solely
because it is by-passing the manager and the governor and directly seeking
to govern individuals through income tax, "benefits", etc. The US is about
to come to pieces. Like all big countries on the way out it never looks so
good as when it is already about to fall apart. The US is by-passing the
states and US companies and is therefore putting the governors, managers
and the states and companies in Danger Condition. This, unrepaired, will
unmock states and companies and collapse the sub-group on which the big
group called the US depends for an organization is composed of groups. Non -
Existence is the Condition just below Danger. A Danger Condition carried
on too long drops down scale to non - existence. A large group made up of
non-existences is of course non-existent itself. Thus by-pass by the heads
of a big organization of the heads of its internal small organizations
works toward non-existence. It is really quite simple. To make an
organization get smaller all one has to do is by-pass the sub-groups and
run the individuals only and the org will collapse or struggle along at
near-collapse NO MATTER HOW BRIGHT ITS MANAGER MAY BE OR HOW HARD HE OR SHE
WORKS OR HOW BRIGHT THE STAFF IS, OR HOW GOOD THE PRODUCT, the violation of
the law in the second paragraph will decay. Fantastic, isn't it? All one
has to do to make an organization grow is apply the law that a large
organization is composed of groups. It is NOT composed of individuals. In
absolute proof of this, in a tiny org it is always observed that everyone
there wears each one all the hats. It is a madhouse of individual cross-
endeavour. Show me an org that stays small and I will show you an org where
every staff member is wearing all the hats in the place. They can't grow
because they violate the law that a large organization is composed of
groups. Russia, just yesterday sweeping the world has begun to lose ground
and her empire withdraws. Russia won't allow companies. She never says to
the head of Georgia "Get your statistics up, bub" and leaves him to it.
Instead she governs the Georgian individual with spies, secret police and
even income tax and is more apt to shoot the head of Georgia if his
statistics do rise as he is then looked on by a paranoid central government
as capable enough to be a menace. Russia once governed via cells and did so
as long as she was expanding. Now she has Income tax! Russia expanded
despite bad management solely because she was composed of cells and
collectives-but she went too far and erased the individual entirely, so,
though growing she starves. Her groups were mainly dedicated to politics,
not production, which is a frailty of governments anyway. But the basic
group is composed of individuals. (For heaven's sakes don't tell Russia as
we don't want her growing-tell her she must govern her individuals
individually and she'll vanish. You can tell the US, if you like, but only
because no president yet ever listened to anything except his popularity
poll and with only a four year career, isn't likely to. In the US, the
government itself vanishes regularly and only the companies, with plenty of
interference, keep the civilization going.) England's sad old empire was
great as long as India was run by the East India Company, etc. etc. Its
colonies and dominions did fine right up to the moment the government in
Westminster and Whitehall started to run the natives as individuals, by-
passing the company controlled colonies. Then the "Empire" started to go
broke because it never was a political empire but a commercial one. As a
political empire it uniformly failed until about 350 years ago it began to
charter companies to rule and govern foreign lands. Then it got an
"empire". When it began to by-pass its company heads and set up crown
controlled governors and then by-pass these it ceased to be an English
Empire and it looks today that soon there won't even be an England. It
could not control even one colony the moment it started to govern
individual colonial citizens on a by-pass of the colonial companies. You
can use the same argument they use. That "concentrating only on groups is
hell on the individual". Marx used that line. Well it isn't true. When you
get too big a group the individual in it, suffering the whole pressure of
the state suffers. The reverse is true-"by concentrating only on groups the
individual is protected and prospers". Now we get to the philosophic
question in the law, how large is large, how small is small. Oddly tins is
easily answered, unlike most philosophic conundrums. You have to have the
answer to "how big should a group be in order for the individuals in it to
be effectively managed without oppression in order to get the job done".
That asks and answers it. A correct group size is one where the individuals
in it are not made too small by the group being too large. This is a ratio
question. The Government of England! and the individual Englishman are of
incomparable magnitude. What the hell can Joe Cockney a citizen do against
the Government of England! Nothing! So Joe Cockney goes to pieces. You
can't have a comm line between a Billion horsepower motor and one
grasshopper! Something is going to explode and it isn't the Billion h.p.
motor. It's the grasshopper. Therefore when the management unit is too big
the individual (despite all the protection laws in the world) becomes
apathetic and can't work or doesn't see himself as important enough to
bother about. So what is a proper sized basic group? A GROUP IS A PROPER
SIZE WHEN THE INDIVIDUALS IN IT CAN EASILY APPROACH THE MANAGER OF THAT
GROUP ON A FAMILIAR FRIENDLY BASIS AND BE SURE HE KNOWS WHAT THEY'RE DOING
AND WHY AND IF THEY'RE DOING IT. The individual in that group is not
oppressed. His charm counts. He feels up to arguing with that manager. The
executive (with a deputy on his side) feels up to confronting the rest of
the group. His own personality counts. The only reason you have strikes and
labour unions is that this group law has been violated. Too many
individuals in the group for them to know intimately their manager on
afriendly co-operative basis. This is all Marx is about. Marx is really a
protest against too big a group solved by creating a protective state (an
overwhelmingly large group) that "rescues" the individual! So Communism is
a mess. For by making a state group one overwhelmed the individual and sure
enough the only criticism of Communism that a Communist will tolerate is
that it has too big a "bureaucracy" by which he means too big a government
for an individual to confront. Communism goes even further. It abolishes
the individual utterly! It forces him to be a group. And that is very bad
for individuals are the building block of the small group. So Marx neither
knew nor solved the basic problem of government. He didn't know the above 2
laws about organizations and groups so Communism, supposed to solve
individual oppression, is the most individually oppressive form of
Government on this planet. How many individuals can effectively compose a
group? It depends on the ability of the manager to handle men on an
individual basis. This varies. But such men or women as can handle a large
number are very, very rare. So we take a safe answer. A fairly safe answer
is six-the manager of the group plus five individuals, one a deputy
manager. This is determined by the answer to this question: How many
subordinates are you willing to work with on the job? Five others is about
all you'd care to stretch it. Two others would be too comfortable-even too
dull. But you can stretch it up to five. Thus we could stretch out an org
composed of groups of six persons-a manager, a deputy and four-making 6
maximum in each group. And you now have the size of the largest building
blocks it takes to make a big org. Six persons in each. If we pyramid this
we have (each maximum): 5 staff members and their In-Charge as a unit; 5
units and the section executive in a section; 5 sections plus the
department's director in a department; 3 departments and the secretary, a
deputy and a communicator in a division; 4 divisions in a portion and the
Org Exec Sec and a deputy and a personal sec; 3 divisions and the HCO Exec
Sec plus her deputy and a personal sec in the HCO portion. Or with a full
Exec Division set up: 4 ES Comms in an Office for the Org Exec Sec and a
personal sec; 3 ES Comms in an Office for the HCO Exec Sec and her personal
sec. But we build downwards by groups of six if we expand further, rarely
exceeding 5 and an Executive. You see then that the moment the HCO Exec Sec
starts handling Address in Charge, the jump is too great as it puts Address
in Charge up against the equivalent of the total executives of units and
sections of HCO! It makes his group too big. It makes him too small (being
such a small part). He gets rattled, feels oppressed, tends to snarl
because he is overwhelmed-his group is too big so he is too small. Simple
as that. So long as an Executive only handles 2,3,4,5 people he can handle
his job because they know him. The people under him can handle their sub-
groups so long as they contact only 2,3,4,5 people and themselves. For
instance, so long as there are only 5 Continental Orgs, Exec Sec
Communicators will feel comfortable, providing the Continental orgs have
each 2, 3, 4, 5 orgs under them and have in their turn ES Communicators. So
proper organization for expansion builds in blocks of 6 maximum-5 + an
executive. That can be 5 groups plus an Executive as you go up or 5 staff
members plus an executive as you go to the bottom. Wherever this is
violated the organization (whether a nation or a company or us) will
dwindle. Where it is kept, the organization will grow. I warn you that 5
plus an executive sized groups is hard work, even a strain at times, but it
can be done. 6 or 7 + an executive is quite too much. And a Government vs
Joe Doakes is a complete smash as Joe is only maybe l/70,000,000th as big
as the Government! So never by-pass. Completely aside from the true
mechanics of the Danger Formula where by-pass results in non - existence,
it is hell on the Executive and every member of the organization to have
continual violation of the maximum groups size. If an executive feels
overworked, even with all Dev-T cared for and policed, then that executive
has below him violations of group size and is by-passing some point that
should have an executive below him, with a group under that executive. The
overworked executive is trying to handle more than five other people
directly. (Five staff members or five group executives.) It's like boxes in
boxes in boxes. But in this case 6 boxes at the most fit comfortably. If a
department has 8 sections under its director, then we have to group the
sections by giving the Director 2 who each control 4 sections. This is a
very comfortable director for he has a group of 2 + the director. He can
loaf. But his assistants will sweat. So add I assistant and divide the
department's sections into 3 groups, 3, 3 and 2 and you will have a more
efficient department. That's the way you juggle it about to prevent
overwork by Executives and overwhelm of individuals. If you want to
increase efficiency on a 5+ executive group, always make one of the 5 a
deputy and slightly senior to the other 4. The four can then approach the
deputy to see if they should approach the executive on matters they feel
uneasy about. This adds a gradient. There are various ways to juggle this
about. An executive with 7 sections can take 3 himself and give a deputy 4,
etc. Lots of ways to do it but just stay at or below 1 + 5 if you can. The
senior to the group exec is not counted as a member of the group. Here and
there we violate this. A Comm Ev is not as acceptable as a Hearing because
one person faces more people. Jury trials are a horrible strain and a
cruelty because one has to face about 14 people! (Judge, prosecutor, jury.)
Too many!
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So those are the laws which underlie organization. But you can have it
all on the org board and not practise it and collapse. If an Exec Sec is
approaching 15 staff members past their executives, it can wreck the place
as the staff members go into apathy, the secretaries go into non -
existence and bang! no org. So completely aside from Danger Condition,
violations of following proper group organization will bring any
organization, a planet, a state, an org, into a mess. This is what
underlies the decline and fall of civilizations: the state begins to govern
the individual! An organization is composed of groups not individuals. And
that truth followed and practised in the flesh as well as on paper will
bring about a happy civilization, a happy nation and a flourishing org.
_________________ SUMMARY A LARGE ORGANIZATION IS COMPOSED OF GROUPS,
A SMALL ONE IS COMPOSED OF INDIVIDUALS. The primary difference between the
opulent West and the starving East is that the West still permits
companies. This means to some extent the Western nations are composed of
groups so they are still somewhat successful. A GROUP IS A PROPER SIZE WHEN
THE INDIVIDUALS IN IT CAN EASILY APPROACH THE MANAGER OF THAT GROUP ON A
FRIENDLY BASIS AND BE SURE HE KNOWS WHAT THEY ARE DOING AND WHY AND IF THEY
ARE DOING IT. More than 5 persons plus their executive tends to be too
large a group. The persons under an executive can of course be executives
of groups. And the five persons below each of those executives can be
executives of groups. If things aren't organized this way the individual is
crushed. The executive is crushed by overwork and the persons under him are
overwhelmed. By-pass of an executive, aside from putting him in danger,
overwhelms the members of his group and makes them do less and makes them
feel attacked and lessens their sense of their own power. 2 + an executive
is also a group but the executive is not really working to capacity. With
all Dev-T cared for an executive will be overworked if he is over more than
four subordinates. The principal reason orgs stay small is no matter how
fancy their org boards they do not actually practise what is on the board
but by-pass or pay no real attention to command lines and so in actual
practice are only one or two oversized groups-which results in them staying
small and being overworked and also underpaid as their system in actual
practice is inefficient. The moral is, practise proper grouping as provided
by the org pattern, never by-pass and so expand and have a happy staff. L.
RON HUBBARD LRH:ml.rd Copyright c 1966 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS
RESERVED HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 6 NOVEMBER 1966
Issue I
Remimeo
ADMIN KNOW-HOW STATISTIC INTERPRETATIVE STATISTIC ANALYSIS
The subject of making up statistics is probably well known. How one
draws one. But the subject of what they mean after they are drawn is
another subject and one which executives should know well. Things are not
always what they seem in statistics. BACK LOGS A backlog caught up gives
one a high soaring statistic which promptly slumps. To call the soar
affluence and the slump emergency is an executive error. When you see a
leaping and diving pattern on something that can be backlogged you can be
very sure it has been. This activity is working in fits and starts, usually
only occasionally manned. For a long time, nothing is done or counted, then
suddenly a month's worth is all counted in one week. So when you see one of
these draw a line halfway between peaks and depressions, more or less the
same distance from each and you can then read the statistic as rising or
falling. CAUSATIVE STATISTICS In any set of statistics of several kinds or
activities, you can always find one or more that are not "by luck" but can
be directly caused by the org or a part of it. An example is the "Letters
Out" and "Completions". Gross Divisional Statistics. Whatever else is
happening, the org itself can improve these as they depend only on the org,
not on "fate". So if you see the gross divisional statistics generally down
or going down for the last couple or three weeks and yet see no beginning
upsurge in the current week in "Letters Out" and "Completions", you know
that the org's management is probably inactive and asking to be removed.
For if they saw all stats going down they should have piled in on "Letters
Out" and "Completions" amongst other things as the least they could do.
They can push those up. So amongst any set of statistics are those which
can be pushed up regardless of the rest and if these aren't, then you know
the worst-no management. ENROLLMENT vs COMPLETIONS If you see a statistic
going up in "Completions" and see a falling "Enrollment" statistic you know
at once the body repeat sign-up line is out. People who graduate are not
being handed their Certs and Awards by a Registrar but are being given them
by Certs and Awards or in mass meetings, or in some way repeat sign-up is
not being procured. Thus the 40% to 60% repeat sign-up business is being
lost. This also means, if continued over a long period of time, that bad
technology is present as poor word-of-mouth advertising is going around.
Look in such a case at a third statistic, Qual Collections. If this is poor
or very, very high, you can be sure that lack of enrollments is caused by
bad tech. A very high Qual Collections statistic and a low enrollment
statistic is a terrible condemnation of the Tech Division. Gross income
will soon after collapse as tech service just isn't good.
COMPARING STATISTICS Thus you get the idea. Statistics are read
against each other. A statistic is a difference between two or more periods
in time so is always comparative. Also two different statistics are
comparative such as in examples above.
PREDICTION You can predict what is going to happen far in advance of
the occurrence, using statistics. High book sales mean eventual prosperity.
Low book sales mean eventual emergency all along the line. High gross
income and low completions mean eventual trouble as the org isn't
delivering but is "backlogging" students and pcs simply by not getting
results. Carried on long enough this means eventual civic and legal
trouble. Low FSM commissions may only mean no FSM programme. But if there
is an FSM programme, then it may mean bad tech. So a low Completion and low
Qual will mean an eventual collapsed FSM statistic also as the FSM's own
area is being muddied up by failed cases. High book sales, high letters
out, high Tech and high Qual statistics mean the gross income statistic
will soon rise. If these are low then gross income will fall. Bills owed
and cash in hand are read by the distance between the two lines. If it is
narrowing, things are improving; if widening, things are getting worse. If
they are far apart and have not closed for a long while, with the cash
graph below, the management is dangerous and not at all alert.
THE DANGEROUS GRAPH All statistics on one set of graphs giving a
sinking trend line is a dangerous situation. One draws a trend line by
choosing the mid-way point between highs and lows and drawing a line. If
all these lines or most of them are down, the management is inactive.
FALSE COMBINATIONS When a Continental Org includes its own org on its
combined graphs for area orgs it can have a very false picture. Its own
org's stats obscure those of the area orgs which may be dying. Thus if you
include a big function with a lot of small ones on a combined graph you can
get a very false idea. Thus, graph big functions as themselves and keep
them out of small functions of the same kind. The Continental Org should
not be part of a Continental Exec Div's statistics. Similarly SH stats
should not be part of WW's. A combined statistic is of course where you
take the same stats from several functions and add them up to one line. A
very large function added into a combined graph can therefore obscure bad
situations. It can also obscure a totally inactive senior management as the
big function under its own management may be wholly alert and competent but
the senior management is masked from view by this one going concern,
whereas all its other points except the big one may be collapsing.
THE BIGGEST MISTAKE The one big godawful mistake an executive can make
in reading and managing by graph is being reasonable about graphs. This is
called JUSTIFYING A STATISTIC. This is the single biggest error in graph
interpretation by executives and the one thing that will clobber an org.
One sees a graph down and says "Oh well, of course, that's........." and at
that moment you've had it. I have seen a whole org tolerate a collapsed
Completions graph for literally months because they all "knew the new type
process wasn't working well." The Tech Sec had JUSTIFIED his graph. The org
bought it. None thought to question it. When it was pointed out that with
the same processes the preceding Tech Sec had a continual high graph and a
suppressive was looked for it turned out to be the Tech Sec! Never JUSTIFY
why a graph continues to be down and never be reasonable about it. A down
graph is simply a down graph and somebody is goofing. The only explanation
that is valid at all is "What was changed just before it fell? Good.
Unchange it fast!" If a graph is down it can and must go up. How it is
going to go up is the only interest. "What did we do each time the last few
times just before it went up? Good. Do it!" Justifying a graph is saying,
"Well, graphs are always down in December due to Christmas." That doesn't
get it up or even really say why it's down! And don't think you know why a
graph is up or down without thorough investigation. If it doesn't stay up
or continues down then one didn't know. It takes very close study on the
ground where the work is done to find why a graph suddenly rose or why it
fell. This pretended knowledge can be very dangerous. "The graph stays high
because we send out the XY Info Packet" as a snap judgment may result in
changing the Dissern Sec who was the real reason with his questionnaires.
And the graphs fall suddenly even though no Info Packet change occurred.
GROSS REASONS Graphs don't fall or rise for tiny, obscure, hard to
find reasons. As in auditing, the errors are always BIG. Book sales fall.
People design new flyers for books, appropriate display money, go mad
trying to get it up. And then at long last one discovers the real reason.
The book store is always shut. A big reason graphs fall is there's nobody
there. Either the executive is double hatted and is too busy on the other
hat, or he just doesn't come to work.
STICKY GRAPHS Bad graphs which resist all efforts to improve them are
made. They don't just happen. A sticky graph is one that won't rise no
matter what one does. Such a graph is made. It is not a matter of omission.
It is a matter of action. If one is putting heavy effort into pushing a
graph up and it won't go up then there must be a hidden counter-effort to
keep it down. You can normally find this counter-effort by locating your
biggest area of non-compliance with orders. That person is working hard to
keep graphs down. In this case it isn't laziness that's at fault. It's
counter-action. I have never seen an org or a division or a section that
had a sticky graph that was not actively pushing the graph down. Such areas
are not idle. They are not doing their jobs. They are always doing
something else. And that something else may suddenly hit you in the teeth.
So beware of a sticky graph. Find the area of non-compliance and reorganize
the personnel or you, as an executive, will soon be in real hot water from
that quarter. Those things which suddenly reared up out of your In basket,
all claws, happened after a long period of sticky graphs in that area.
Today's grief was visible months ago on your stats.
SUMMARY The simple ups and downs of graphs mean little when not
watched over a period of time or compared to other graphs in the same
activity. One should know how to read stats and what they mean and why they
behave that way so that one can take action in ample time. Never get
reasonable about a graph. The only reason it or its trend is down is that
it is down. The thing to do is get it up.
L. RON HUBBARD Founder
LRH:jp.rd Copyright c 1966 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 12 FEBRUARY 1967
Org Exec Course
ADMIN KNOW-HOW THE RESPONSIBILITIES OF LEADERS
A few comments on POWER, being or working close to or under a Power,
which is to say a leader or one who exerts wide primary influence on the
affairs of men. I have written it this way, using two actual people to give
an example of magnitude enough to interest and to furnish some pleasant
reading. And I used a military sphere so it could be seen clearly without
restimulation of admin problems. The book referenced is a fantastically
able book by the way.
THE MISTAKES OF SIMON BOLIVAR AND MANUELA SAENZ Reference: The Book
Entitled: The Four Seasons of Manuela by Victor W. von Hagen, a biography.
A Mayflower Dell Paperback, 0ct l966. 6/ - Simon Bolivar was the Liberator
of South America from the yoke of Spain. Manuela Saenz was the Liberatress
and Consort. Their acts and fates are well recorded in this moving
biography. But aside from any purely dramatic value the book lays bare and
motivates various actions of great interest to those who lead, who support
or are near leaders. Simon Bolivar was a very strong character. He was one
of the richest men in South America. He had real personal ability given to
only a handful on the planet. He was a military commander without peer in
history. Why he would fail and die an exile to be later deified is thus of
great interest. What mistakes did he make? Manuela Saenz was a brilliant,
beautiful and able woman. She was loyal, devoted, quite comparable to
Bolivar, far above the cut of average humanoids. Why then did she live a
vilified outcast, receive such violent social rejection and die of poverty
and remain unknown to history. What mistakes did she make?
BOLIVAR'S ERRORS The freeing of things is the reverse unstated
dramatization (the opposite side of the coin) to the slavery enjoined by
the mechanisms of the mind. Unless there is something to free men into, the
act of freeing is simply a protest of slavery. And as no humanoid is free
while aberrated in the body cycle, it is of course a gesture to free him
politically as it frees him only into the anarchy of dramatizing his
aberrations with NO control whatever and without something to fight
exterior and with no exteriorization of his interest he simply goes mad
noisily or quietly. Once as great a wrong as depraving beings has been done
there is of course no freedom short of freeing one from the depravity
itself or at least from its most obvious influences in the society. In
short one would have to de-aberrate a man before his whole social structure
could be de-aberrated. If one lacked the whole ability to free man wholly
from his reactive patterns, then one could free man from their
restimulators in the society at least. If one had the whole of the data
(but lacked the Scientology tech), one would simply use reactive patterns
to blow the old society apart and then pick up the pieces neatly in a new
pattern. If one had no inkling of how reactive one can get (and Bolivar of
course had no knowledge whatever in that field), there yet remained a
workable formula used "instinctively" by most successful practical
political leaders. If you free a society from those things you see wrong
with it and use force to demand it do what is right, and if you carry
forward with decision and thoroughness, and without continual temporizing
you can, in the applications of your charm and gifts, bring about a great
political reform or improve a failing country. So Bolivar's first error,
most consistent it was, too, was contained in the vital words "you see" in
the above paragraph. He didn't look and he didn't even listen to sound
intelligence reports. He was so sure he could glow things right or fight
things right or charm things right that he never looked for anything wrong
to correct until it was too late. This is the ne-plus-ultra of personal
confidence, amounting to supreme vanity. "When he appeared it would all
come right" was not only his belief but his basic philosophy. So the first
time it didn't work, he collapsed. All his skills and charm were channeled
into this one test. Only that could he observe. Not to compare with Bolivar
but to show my understanding of this: I once had a similar one. "I would
keep going as long as I could and when I was stopped I would then die."
This was a solution mild enough to state and really hard to understand
until you had an inkling of what I meant by keeping going. Meteors keep
going-very, very fast. And so did 1. Then one day ages back I finally was
stopped after countless little stoppings by social contacts and family to
prepare me culminating in a navy more devoted to braid than dead enemies
and literally I quit. For a while I couldn't get a clue of what was wrong
with me. Life went completely unlivable until I found a new solution. So I
know the frailty of these single solutions. Not to compare myself but just
to show it happens to us all, not just Bolivars. Bolivar had no personal
insight at all. He could only "outsight" and even then he did not look or
listen. He glowed things right. Pitifully it was his undoing that he could.
Until he no longer could. When he couldn't glow he roared and when he
couldn't roar he fought a battle. Then civic enemies were not military
enemies so he had no solution left at all. It never occurred to him to do
more than personally magnetize things into being right and victorious. His
downfall was that he made far too heavy use of a skill simply because it
was easy. He was too good at this one thing. So he never looked to any
other skill and he never even dreamed there was any other way. He had no
view of any situation and no idea of the organizational or preparatory
steps necessary to political and personal victory. He only knew military
organization which is where his organizational insight ceased. He was
taught on the high wine of French revolt, notorious in its organizational
inability to form cultures, and that fatally by a childhood teacher who was
intensely impractical in his own private life (Simon Rodriguez, an
unfrocked priest turned tutor). Bolivar had no personal financial skill. He
started wealthy and wound up a pauper, a statistic descending from one of
the if not the richest man in South America down to a borrowed nightshirt
to be buried in as an exile. And this while the property of Royalists was
wide open, the greatest land and mine valuables of South America wide open
to his hand and that's not believable! But true. He never collected his own
debt of loans to governments even when the head of those governments. So it
is no wonder we find two more very real errors leading to his downfall. He
did not get his troops or officers rewarded and he did not aim for any
solvency of the states he controlled. It was all right if there were long
years of battle ahead for them to be unpaid as no real riches were yet won,
but not to reward them when the whole place was at his disposal! Well! The
limit of his ability consisted of demanding a bit of cash for current pay
from Churches-which were not actively against him at first but which
annoyed them no end-and a few household expenses. He could have (and should
have) set aside all Royalist property and estates for division amongst his
officers, their men and his supporters. It had no owners now. And this
failure cost the economy of the country the tax loss of all those
productive estates (the whole wealth of the land). So it is no wonder his
government, its taxable estates now inoperative or at best lorded by a
profiteer or looted by Indians, was insolvent. Also, by failing to do such
an obvious act he delivered property into the hands of more provident
enemies and left his officers and men penniless to finance any support for
their own stability in the new society and so for his own. As for state
finance the great mines of South America, suddenly ownerless, were
overlooked and were then grabbed and worked by foreign adventurers who
simply came in and took them without payment. Spain had run the country on
the finance of mine tithes and general taxes. Bolivar not only didn't
collect the tithes, he let the land become so worthless as to be untaxable.
He should have gotten the estates going by any shifts and should have state
operated all Royalist mines once he had them. To not do these things was
complete, but typically humanoid, folly. In doing this property division he
should have left it all up to officers' committees operating as courts of
claim without staining his own hands in the natural corruption. He was left
doubly open as he not only did not attend to it, he also got the name of
corruption when anybody did grab something. He failed as well to recognize
the distant widespread nature of his countries despite all his riding and
fighting over them and so sought tightly centralized government, not only
centralizing states but also centralizing the various nations into a
Federal state. And this over a huge land mass full of insurmountable
ranges, impassable jungles and deserts and without mail, telegraph, relay
stages, roads, railroads, river vessels or even foot bridges repaired after
a war of attrition. A step echelon from a pueblo (village) to a state, from
a state to a country and a country to a Federal state was only possible in
such huge spaces of country where candidates could never be known
personally over any wide area and whose opinions could not even be
circulated more than a few miles of burro trail, where only the pueblo was
democratic and the rest all appointive from Pueblo on up, himself the
ratifier of titles if he even needed that. With his own officers and armies
controlling the land as owners of all wrested from Royalists and the crown
of Spain, he would have had no revolts. There would have been little civil
wars of course but a court to settle their final claims could have existed
at Federal level and kept them traveling so much over those vast distances
it would have crippled their enthusiasm for litigation on the one hand and
on the other, by dog eat dog settlements, would have given him the
strongest rulers-if he took neither side. He did not step out and abdicate
a dictatorial position. He mistook military acclaim and ability for the
tool of peace. War only brings anarchy, so he had anarchy. Peace is more
than a "command for unity", his favorite phrase. A productive peace is
getting men busy and giving them something to make something of that they
want to make something of and telling them to get on with it. He never
began to recognize a suppressive and never considered anyone needed killing
except on a battlefield. There it was glorious. But somebody destroying his
very name and soul, and the security of every supporter and friend, the SP
Santander, his vice-president, who could have been arrested and executed by
a corporal's guard on one one - hundredth of available evidence, could
suborn the whole treasury and population against him, without Bolivar,
continually warned, loaded with evidence, ever even reprimanding him. And
this brought about his loss of popularity and his eventual exile. He also
failed in the same way to protect his military family or Manuela Saenz from
other enemies. So he weakened his friends and ignored his enemies just by
oversight. His greatest error lay in that while dismissing Spain he did not
dismiss that nation's most powerful minion, the Church, and did not even
localize it or reward a South American separate branch to loyalty or do
anything at all (except extort money from it) to an organization which
continually worked for Spain as only it could work-on every person in the
land in a direct anti-Bolivar reign of terror behind the scenes. You either
suborn such a group or you take them out when they cease to be universal
and become or are an enemy's partner. As the Church held huge properties
and as Bolivar's troops and supporters went unpaid, even of the penny
soldiers' pay, if one was going to overlook the Royalist estates, one could
at least have seized the Church property and given it to the soldiers.
General Vallejo did this in 1835 in California, a nearly contemporary act,
with no catastrophe from Rome. Or the penniless countries could have taken
them over. You don't leave an enemy financed and solvent while you let your
friends starve in a game like South American politics. Oh no. He wasted his
enemies. He exported the "godos" or defeated Royalist soldiers. They mostly
had no homes but South America. He issued no amnesties they could count on.
They were shipped off or left to die in the "ditch"-the best artisan in the
country among them. When one (General Rodil) would not surrender Calloa
fortress after Peru was won. Bolivar after great gestures of amnesty failed
to obtain surrender and then fought the fort. Four thousand political
refugees and four thousand Royalist troops died over many months in full
sight of Lima, fought heavily by Bolivar only because the fort was
fighting. But Bolivar had to straighten up Peru urgently not fight a
defeated enemy. The right answer to such a foolish commander as Rodil as
Bolivar did have the troops to do it, was to cover the roads with cannon
enfilade potential to discourage any sortie from the fort, put a larger
number of his own troops in a distant position of offense but ease and
comfort and say, "We're not going to fight. The war's over, silly man. Look
at the silly fellows in there, living on rats when they can just walk out
and sleep home nights or go to Spain or enlist with me or just go camping,"
and let anybody walk in and out who pleased, making the fort Commander
(Rodil) the prey of every pleading wife and mother without and would-be
deserter or mutineer within until he did indeed sheepishly give up the
pretense-a man cannot fight alone. But battle was glory to Bolivar. And he
became intensely disliked because the incessant cannonade which got nowhere
was annoying. Honors meant a great deal to Bolivar. To be liked was his
life. And it probably meant more to him than to see things really right. He
never compromised his principles but he lived on admiration, a rather
sickening diet since it demands in turn continuous "theatre". One is what
one is, not what one is admired or hated for. To judge oneself by one's
successes is simply to observe that one's postulates worked and breeds
confidence in one's ability. To have to be told it worked only criticizes
one's own eyesight and hands a spear to the enemy to make his wound of
vanity at his will. Applause is nice. It's great to be thanked and admired.
But to work only for that? And his craving for that, his addiction to the
most unstable drug in history-fame-killed Bolivar. That self offered spear.
He told the world continually how to kill him-reduce its esteem. So as
money and land can buy any quantity of cabals, he could be killed by
curdling the esteem, the easiest thing you can get a mob to do. He had all
the power. He did not use it for good or evil. One cannot hold power and
not use it. It violates the power formula. For it then prevents others from
doing things if they had some of the power so they then see as their only
solution the destruction of the holder of the power as he, not using power
or delegating it, is the unwitting block to all their plans. So even many
of his friends and armies finally agreed he had to go. They were not able
men. They were in a mess. But bad or good they had to do something. Things
were desperate, broken down and starving after 14 years of civil war.
Therefore they either had to have some of that absolute power or else
nothing could be done at all. They were not great minds. He did not need
any "great minds", he thought, even though he invited them verbally. He saw
their petty, often murderous solutions and he rebuked them. And so held the
power and didn't use it. He could not stand another personality threat. The
trouble in Peru came when he bested its real conqueror (from the
Argentine), La Mar, in a petty triumph over adding Guayaquil to Colombia.
Bolivar wished to look triumphant again and didn't notice it really cost
him the support and Peru the support of La Mar-who understandably resigned
and went home, leaving Bolivar Peru to conquer. Unfortunately, it had
already been in his hands. La Mar needed some troops to clean up a small
Royalist army that was all. La Mar didn't need Peru's loss of Guayaquil-
which never did anybody any real good anyway! Bolivar would become inactive
when faced with two areas' worth of problems-he did not know which way to
go. So he did nothing. Brave beyond any general in history on the
battlefield, the Andes or in torrential rivers, he did not really have the
bravery needed to trust inferior minds and stand by their often shocking
blunders. He feared their blunders. So he did not dare unleash his many
willing hounds. He could lead men, make men feel wonderful, make men fight
and lay down their lives after hardships no army elsewhere in the world has
ever faced before or since. But he could not use men even when they were
begging to be used. It is a frightening level of bravery to use men you
know can be cruel, vicious, and incompetent. He had no fear of their
turning on him ever. When they finally did only then he was shocked. But he
protected "the people" from authority given to questionably competent men.
So he really never used but three or four generals of mild disposition and
enormously outstanding ability. And to the rest he denied power. Very
thoughtful of the nebulous "people" but very bad indeed for the general
good. And it really caused his death. No. Bolivar was theatre. It was all
theatre. One cannot make such errors and still pretend that one thinks of
life as life, red-blooded and factual. Real men and real life are full of
dangerous, violent, live situations and wounds hurt and starvation is
desperation itself especially when you see it in one you love. This mighty
actor, backed up with fantastic personal potential, made the mistake of
thinking the theme of liberty and his own great role upon the stage was
enough to interest all the working, suffering hours of men, buy their
bread, pay their whores, shoot their wives' lovers and bind their wounds or
even put enough drama into very hard pressed lives to make them want to
live it. No, Bolivar was unfortunately the only actor on the stage and no
other man in the world was real to him. And so he died. They loved him. But
they were also on the stage too, where they were dying in his script or
Rousseau's script for liberty but no script for living their very real
lives. He was the greatest military general in any history measured against
his obstacles, the people and the land across which he fought. And he was a
complete failure to himself and his friends. While being one of the
greatest men alive at that. So we see how truly shabby others in leaders'
boots amongst men must be.
MANUELA SAENZ The tragedy of Manuela Saenz as Bolivar's mistress was
that she was never used, never really had a share and was neither protected
nor honored by Bolivar. Here was a clever, spectacular woman of fantastic
fidelity and skill, with an enormous "flaire", capable of giving great
satisfaction and service. And only her satisfaction ability was taken and
that not consistently nor even honestly. In the first place, Bolivar never
married her. He never married anybody. This opened up a fantastic breach in
any defense she could ever make against her or his enemies who were legion.
So her first mistake was in not in some way contriving a marriage. That she
had an estranged husband she had been more or less sold to was permitted by
her to wreck her life obliquely. She was too selfless to be real in all her
very able plotting. For this marriage problem she could have engineered any
number of actions. She had the solid friendship of all his trusted
advisers, even his old tutor. Yet she arranged nothing for herself. She was
utterly devoted, completely brilliant and utterly incapable of really
bringing off an action of any final kind. She violated the power formula in
not realizing that she had power. Manuela was up against a hard man to
handle. But she did not know enough to make her own court effective. She
organized one. She did not know what to do with it. Her most fatal mistake
was in not bringing down Santander, Bolivar's chief enemy. That cost her
everything she had before the end and after Bolivar died. She knew for
years Santander had to be killed. She said it or wrote it every few days.
Yet never did she promise some young officer a nice night or a handful of
gold to do it in a day when duelling was in fashion. It's like standing
around discussing how the plainly visible wolf in the garden that's eating
the chickens must be shot, even holding a gun, and never even lifting it
while all one's chickens vanish for years. In a land overridden with
priests she never got herself a tame priest to bring about her ends. She
was a fantastic intelligence officer. But she fed her data to a man who
could not act to protect himself or friends, who could only fight armies
dramatically. She did not see this and also quietly take on the portfolio
of secret police chief. Her mistake was waiting to be asked-to be asked to
come to him, to act. She voluntarily was his best political intelligence
agent. Therefore she should have also assumed further roles. She guarded
his correspondence, was intimate with his secretaries. And yet she never
collected or forged or stole any document to bring down enemies either
through representations to Bolivar or a court circle of her own. And in an
area with that low an ethic, that's fatal. She openly pamphleteered and
fought violently as in a battle against her rabble. She had a great deal of
money at her disposal. In a land of for-sale Indians she never used a penny
to buy a quick knife or even a solid piece of evidence. When merely opening
her lips she could have had any sequestrated Royalist estate she went to
litigation for a legitimate legacy never won and another won but never
paid. They lived on the edge of quicksand. She never bought a plank or a
rope. Carried away by the glory of it all, devoted completely, potentially
able and a formidable enemy, she did not act. She waited to be told to come
to him even when he lay dying and exiled. His command over her who never
obeyed any other was too absolute for his own or her survival. Her assigned
mistakes (pointed out at the time as her caprice and play acting) were not
her errors. They only made her interesting. They were far from fatal. She
was not ruthless enough to make up for his lack of ruthlessness and not
provident enough to make up for his lack of providence. The ways open to
her for finance, for action, were completely doorless. The avenue stretched
out to the horizon. She fought bravely but she just didn't take action. She
was an actress for the theatre alone. And she died of it. And she let
Bolivar die because of it. Never once did Manuela look about and say, "See
here, things musn't go this wrong. My lover holds half a continent and even
I hold the loyalty of battalions. Yet that woman threw a fish!" Never did
Manuela tell Bolivar's doctor, a rumoured lover, "Tell that man he will not
live without my becoming a constant part of his entourage, and tell him
until he believes it or we'll have a new physician around here." The world
was open. Where Theodosius, the wife of Emperor Justinian II of
Constantinople, a mere circus girl and a whore, ruled harder than her
husband but for her husband behind his back-and made him marry her as well,
Manuela never had any bushel basket of gold brought in to give Bolivar for
his unpaid troops with a "Just found it, dear" to his "Where on Earth....?"
after the Royalist captives had been carefully ransomed for gaol escapes by
her enterprising own entourage and officer friends. She never handed over
any daughter of a family clamoring against her to Negro troops and then
said, "Which oververbal family is next?" She even held a colonel's rank but
only used it because she wore man's clothing afternoons. It was a brutal,
violent, ruthless land, not a game of musical chairs. And so Manuela,
penniless, improvident, died badly and in poverty, exiled by enemies and
deserted by her friends. But why not deserted by her friends? They had all
been poverty-stricken to a point quite incapable of helping her even though
they wanted to-for she once had the power to make them solvent. And didn't
use it. They were in poverty before they won but they did eventually
control the land. After that why make it a bad habit?
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And so we see two pathetic, truly dear, but tinsel figures, both on a
stage, both far removed from the reality of it all. And one can say, "But
if they had not been such idealists they never would have fought so hard
and freed half a continent," or "If she had stooped to such intrigue or he
had been known for violent political actions they would never have had the
strength and never would have been loved." All very idealistic itself. They
died "in the ditch" unloved, hated and despised, two decent brave people,
almost too good for this world. A true hero, a true heroine. But on a stage
and not in life. Impractical and improvident and with no faintest gift
either one to use the power they could assemble. This story of Bolivar and
Manuela is a tragedy of the most piteous kind. They fought a hidden enemy,
the Church; they were killed by their friends. But don't overlook how
impractical it is not to give your friends power enough when you have it to
give. You can always give some of it to another if the first one collapses
through inability. And one can always be brought down like a hare at a hunt
who seeks to use the delegated power to kill you-if you have the other
friends. Life is not a stage for posturing and "Look at me!" "Look at me."
"Look at me." If one is to lead a life of command or a life near to command
one must handle it as life. Life bleeds. It suffers. It hungers. And it has
to have the right to shoot its enemies until such time as comes a golden
age. Aberrated man is not capable of supporting in his present state, a
golden declared age for three minutes, given all the tools and wealth in
the world. If one would live a life of command or one near to a command,
one must then accumulate power as fast as possible and delegate it as
quickly as feasible and use every humanoid in long reach to the best and
beyond his talents if one is to live at all. If one does not choose to live
such a life then go on the stage and be a real actor. Don't kill men while
pretending it isn't real. Or one can become a recluse or a student or a
clerk. Or study butterflies or take up tennis. For one is committed to
certain irrevocable natural laws the moment one starts out upon a conquest,
either as the man in charge or a person near to him or on his staff or in
his army. And the foremost law, if one's ambition is to win, is of course
to win. But also to keep on providing things to win and enemies to conquer.
Bolivar let his cycle run to "freedom" and end there. He never had another
plan beyond that point. He ran out of territory to free. Then he didn't
know what to do with it and didn't know enough, either, to find somewhere
else to free. But of course all limited games come to end. And when they do
their players fall over on the field and become rag dolls unless somebody
at least tells them the game has ended and they have no more game nor any
dressing room or houses but just that field. And they lie upon the field,
not noticing there can be no more game since the other team has fled and
after a bit they have to do something and if the leader and his consort are
sitting over on the grass being rag dolls too, of course there isn't any
game. And so the players start fighting amongst themselves just to have a
game. And if the leader then says, "No, no" and his consort doesn't say,
"Honey, you better phone the Baltimore Orioles for Saturday", then of
course the poor players, bored stiff, say, "He's out." "She's out." "Now
we're going to split the team in half and have a game." And that's what
happened to Bolivar and Manuela. They had to be gotten rid of for there was
no game and they didn't develop one to play while forbidding the only
available game-minor civil wars. A whole continent containing the then
major mines of the world, whole populations were left sitting there,
"freed". But none owned any of it though the former owners had left. They
weren't given it. Nor were they made to manage it. No game. And if Bolivar
had not been smart enough for that he could at least have said, "Well! You
monkeys are going to have quite a time getting the wheels going but that's
not my job. You decide on your type of government and what it's to be.
Soldiers are my line. Now I'm taking over those old estates of mine and the
Royalist ones near by and the emerald mines just as souvenirs and me and
Manuela we're going home." And he should have said that 5 minutes after the
last Royalist army was defeated in Peru. And his official family with him,
and a thousand troops to which he was giving land would have moved right
off smartly with him. And the people after a few screams of horror at being
deserted would have fallen on each other, sabered a state together here and
a town there and gotten busy out of sheer self protection in a vital new
game, "Who's going to be Bolivar now?" Then when home he should have said,
"Say those nice woods look awfully Royalist to me, and also those 1,000,000
hectares of grazing land, Manuela. Its owner once threw a Royalist fish,
remember? So that's yours." And the rest of the country would have done the
same and gotten on with the new game of "You was a Royalist". And Bolivar
and Manuela would have had statues built to them by the TON at once as soon
as agents could get to Paris with orders from an adoring populace.
"Bolivar, come rule us!" should have gotten an "I don't see any unfree
South America. When you see a French or Spanish army coming, come back and
tell me." That would have worked. And this poor couple would have died
suitably adored. in the sanctity of glory and (perhaps more importantly) in
their own beds, not "in a ditch". And if they had had to go on ruling they
could have declared a new game of "pay the soldiers and officers with
Royalist land". And when that was a gone game, "Oust the Church and give
its land to the poor friendly Indians". You can't stand bowing back of the
footlights forever with no show even if you are quite an actor. Somebody
else can make better use of any stage than even the handsomest actor who
will not use it. Man is too aberrated to understand at least 7 things about
Power: 1. Life is lived by lots of people. And if you lead you must either
let them get on with it or lead them on with it actively. 2. When the game
or the show is over, there must be a new game or a new show. And if there
isn't somebody else is jolly well going to start one and if you won't let
anyone do it the game will become "getting you". 3. If you have power use
it or delegate it or you sure won't have it long. 4. When you have people
use them or they will soon become most unhappy and you won't have them any
more. 5. When you move off a point of power, pay all your obligations on
the nail, empower all your friends completely and move off with your
pockets full of artillery, potential blackmail on every erstwhile rival,
unlimited funds in your private account and the addresses of experienced
assassins and go live in Bulgravia and bribe the police. And even then you
may not live long if you have retained one scrap of domination in any camp
you do not now control or if you even say, "I favour Politician Jiggs."
Abandoning power utterly is dangerous indeed. But we can't all be leaders
or figures strutting in the limelight and so there's more to know about
this: When you're close to power get some delegated to you, enough to do
your job and protect yourself and your interests, for you can be shot,
fellow, shot, as the position near power is delicious but dangerous,
dangerous always, open to the taunts of any enemy of the power who dare not
really boot the power but can boot you. So to live at all in the shadow or
employ of a power you must yourself gather and USE enough power to hold
your own-without just nattering to the power to "kill Pete", in
straightforward or more suppressive veiled ways to him as these wreck the
power that supports yours. He doesn't have to know all the bad news and if
he's a power really he won't ask all the time, "What are all those dead
bodies doing at the door?" And if you are clever, you never let it be
thought HE killed them - that weakens you and also hurts the power source.
"Well, boss, about all those dead bodies, nobody at all will suppose you
did it. She over there, those pink legs sticking out, didn't like me."
"Well," he'll say if he really is a power, "why are you bothering me with
it if it's done and you did it. Where's my blue ink?" Or "Skipper, three
shore patrolmen will be along soon with your cook, Dober, and they'll want
to tell you he beat up Simson." "Who's Simson?" "He's a clerk in the enemy
office downtown." "Good, when they've done it, take Dober down to the
dispensary for any treatment he needs. Oh yes. Raise his pay." Or "Sir,
could I have the power to sign divisional orders?" "Sure." 7. And lastly
and most important, for we all aren't on the stage with our names in
lights, always push power in the direction of anyone on whose power you
depend. It may be more money for the power, or more ease, or a snarling
'defense of the power to a critic, or even the dull thud of one of his
enemies in the dark, or the glorious blaze of the whole enemy camp as a
birthday surprise. If you work like that and the power you are near or
depend upon is a power that has at least some inkling about how to be one,
and if you make others work like that, then the power-factor expands and
expands and expands and you too acquire a sphere of power bigger than you
would have if you worked alone. Real powers are developed by tight
conspiracies of this kind pushing someone up in whose leadership they have
faith. And if they are right and also manage their man and keep him from
collapsing through overwork, bad temper or bad data, a kind of Juggernaut
builds up. Don't ever feel weaker because you work for somebody stronger.
The only failure lies in taxing or pulling down the strength on which you
depend. All failures to remain a power's power are failures to contribute
to the strength and longevity of the work, health and power of that power.
Devotion requires active contribution outwards from the power as well as
in.
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If Bolivar and Manuela had known these things they would have lived an
epic, not a tragedy. They would not have "died in the ditch", he bereft of
really earned praise for his real accomplishments even to this day. And
Manuela would not be unknown even in the archives of her country as the
heroine she was. Brave, brave figures. But if this can happen to such
stellar personalities gifted with ability tenfold over the greatest of
other mortals, to people who could take a rabble in a vast impossible land
and defeat one of Earth's then foremost powers, with no money or arms, on
personality alone, what then must be the ignorance and confusion of human
leaders in general, much less little men stumbling through their lives of
boredom and suffering? Let us wise them up, huh? You can't live in a world
where even the great leaders can't lead.
L. RON HUBBARD Founder
LRH:jp.rd Copyright c 1967 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 24 JULY 1967
Remimeo
FIXED PUBLIC CONSUMPTION OF PRODUCT
Any Scientology organisation (or any organisation) which is working in
any way upon a fixed statistic of consumption will eventually fail. By
"fixed consumption" is meant estimates of the public's consumption of
product as a limit on production. There are several ways to "fix a
consumption statistic". These are: 1. Provide just so many auditors for the
HGC to agree with expected pcs. 2. Schedule just as many courses in the
Academy as one thinks there will be students. 3. Provide just enough
quarters to handle the expected quantity of business. Unless one disregards
the expectancy and unless one simply furnishes all the service one can,
regardless of past statistics, the org will go downhill. Several orgs work
on the basis that there is just so much business and that one must only
cater to that. Sydney, Auckland and some others have gone so far as to hold
a one student course with hours arranged to fit that student. Joburg has in
the past let the pc decide how and when he is to be audited and has had a
registrar assigning the hours (with 35 auditors on the payroll and pcs
getting 2 hours each a week, 35 auditors were delivering only 100 auditing
hours a week!). Any org that does not simply provide good uniformly
scheduled service will fail.
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Let us have an example of a car industry working on a fixed
consumption statistic. The directors look up the last year and see that
1,000,000 cars were bought. They decide then, for this year, to make
1,000,000 cars. As they keep doing this year to year they eventually begin
to make less and less cars and one day go out of business. That is NOT the
way to go about it. What the directors should have done was ignore the last
year's stat and call in the head of production and ask, "How many can you
make this next year?" The guy says, "2,500,000". The Board says, "Good.
Make them." Then the Board calls in their Distribution Division and says,
"Tell the dealers they will get 2 and Vi times as many cars next year so be
sure and get ready to sell them." And the Board calls in the letter reg and
says, "Write every owner of one of our cars that he is going to be very
pleased with his next model. And mail a magazine to all of them once every
two months tracing the new model's development." Now, in practice of course
no car industry has any letter reg or Central Files of customers and their
Dist Div is a sort of list of dealers so that Board couldn't do that. But a
Sen org can! Now let us examine the exact same procedure in a Scientology
org if it were followed. Wrong way: The Exec Council sees how many students
and pcs were trained and processed last year and arranges to train and
process that many this year. The registrar working alone must keep up some
quota so begins to make special deals in desperation. The org goes
downhill. Like Auckland, Sydney and Joburg did.
Right way: The Exec Council calls in the Tech Sec, Director of
Training and Director of Processing and Director of Tech Services and says,
"What is the maximum number of students and pcs that we can handle?" These
executives figure it out and say, "500 students and 210 pcs." The Exec
Council then tells them to do it, and calls in the Dissem Sec and says,
"Have your people contact and sign up 750 students and 350 pcs in the
coming year." They call in the Dist Sec and say, "Double the names in CF."
They call in the HCO Sec and say, "Get in Ethics in this whole area and
also locate and give us a list of all failed cases in the past three
years." This last list they give to their Field Staff Members with orders
to offer a free S & D and get the people in. The Exec Council does NOT work
on a fixed statistic of last year or any year. It DOES NOT CONSIDER IT IS
STOPPED BY A FIXED CONSUMPTION. It does not try to limit its business to
expected business. Of course it is silly to think there is any limit on the
people who are to be trained and processed. We have not even touched the
3,000,000,000 potential Scientologists on this one planet.
_________________
If you schedule a continuous course in the Academy and teach it, it
will fill up. IF you don't break it into arbitrary periods. People who run
a course every six weeks or every year always eventually fail. You have to
run a continuously enrolling course. At Saint Hill we held to enrolling
every Monday for many years. Then a couple years ago I ordered enrolment on
arrival (any day of the week) and enrolments increased.
_________________
If the service is there it will be used. If it is there only by wait
it will not be used. Sometimes you have to teach a full course to an empty
Academy for weeks or months when you start this, but given good, well and
precisely scheduled classes and all tech in, the place will fill up and
stay filled. Sometimes HGC auditors sit around for weeks with no pcs after
a full HGC is organised but they will eventually have pcs if the service is
there. There IS NO FIXED CONSUMPTION. When you do not provide the service
first, it will not be used. You cannot drum up business unless the service
is certain. The best way to have certain service is to provide it before it
is demanded. Then, as it exists, it will be used. You can promote before
your service is complete only so long as the service will be there when
demanded. In general org management it is very easy to fall for a fixed
consumption idea and limit everyone to it. The only sure way to proceed is
to operate with maximum possible service while bringing maximum pressure to
bear on the Dist and Dissem Divisions to fill the place up. There is no
limit to the number of students and pcs. Why limit the sign ups?
L. RON HUBBARD Founder
LRH:jp.rd Copyright c 1967 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 6 OCTOBER 1967
Remimeo
CONDITION OF LIABILITY
Below Non-Existence there is the Condition of Liability. The being has
ceased to be simply non-existent as a team member and has taken on the
colour of an enemy. It is assigned where careless or malicious and knowing
damage is caused to projects, orgs or activities. It is adjudicated that it
is malicious and knowing because orders have been published against it or
because it is contrary to the intentions and actions of the remainder of
the team or the purpose of the project or org. It is a liability to have
such a person unwatched as the person may do or continue to do things to
stop or impede the forward progress of the project or org and such a person
cannot be trusted. No discipline or the assignment of conditions above it
has been of any avail. The person has just kept on messing it up. The
condition is usually assigned when several dangers and non-existences have
been assigned or when a long unchanged pattern of conduct has been
detected. When all others are looking for the reason mail is getting lost,
such a being would keep on losing the mail covertly. The condition is
assigned for the benefit of others so they won't get tripped up trusting
the person in any way. Such a person, assigned a "Condition of Liability,
may not wear any insignia or uniform or similar clothing to the group and
must wear a dirty grey rag tied around the left arm. The formula of
liability is: 1. Decide who are one's friends. 2. Deliver an effective blow
to the enemies of the group one has been pretending to be part of despite
personal danger. 3. Make up the damage one has done by personal
contribution far beyond the ordinary demands of a group member. 4. Apply
for re-entry to the group by asking the permission of each member of it to
rejoin and rejoining only by majority permission, and if refused, repeating
2 and 3 and 4 until one is allowed to be a group member again.
CONDITION OF TREASON
When one knowingly takes the pay or favours of a group's or project's
enemies while appearing to be a friend of or part of the group or project,
the Condition is Treason. The formula for Treason Condition is: 1. Deliver
a paralyzing blow to the enemies of the group one has worked against and
betrayed. 2. Perform a self-damaging act that furthers the purposes and or
objectives of the group one has betrayed. 3. Inform the group, project or
org one has betrayed of one's previous betrayal and I and 2 above and
petition each member for forgiveness. 4. Abide by their reaction or
decision.
CONDITION OF DOUBT When one cannot make up one's mind as to an
individual, a group, org or project a Condition of Doubt exists. The
formula is: 1. Inform oneself honestly of the actual intentions and
activities of that group, project or org brushing aside all bias and
rumour. 2. Examine the statistics of the individual, group, project or org.
3. Decide on the basis of "the greatest good for the greatest number of
dynamics" whether or not it should be attacked, harmed or suppressed or
helped. 4. Evaluate oneself or one's own group, project or org as to
intentions and objectives. 5. Evaluate one's own or one's group, project or
org's statistics. 6. Join or remain in or befriend the one which progresses
toward the greatest good for the greatest number of dynamics and announce
the fact publicly to both sides. 7. Do everything possible to improve the
actions and statistics of the person, group, project or org one has
remained in or joined. 8. Suffer on up through the conditions in the new
group if one has changed sides, or the conditions of the group one has
remained in if wavering from it has lowered one's status.
CONDITION OF ENEMY When a person is an avowed and knowing enemy of an
individual, a group, project or org, a Condition of Enemy exists. The
formula is: 1. Examine oneself and one's mind or have it examined to be
sure that one's attitude is not based on prejudice or aberration or mere
similarity to something else. 2. Decide if one's reaction to the
individual, group, project or org is based on one's personal fear or the
urging of others or on actual menace. 3. Assume the Condition of Doubt and
apply its formula.
L. RON HUBBARD Founder LRH:mwp.rd Copyright c 1967 by L. Ron Hubbard
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
[The formulas for the Conditions of Enemy and Treason given above were
modified by HCO P/L 23 October 1967, Enemy Formula, page 245, and HCO P/L
16 October 1968, page 247, respectively. The penalties (grey rag, etc)
associated with the above conditions formulas were cancelled by HCO P/L 6
October 1970 Issue III, Ethics Penalties, and reinstated by HCO P/L 19
October 1971 (corrected & reissued 22 Oct 71), Ethics Penalties Reinstated,
and then later modified by HCO P/L 16 November 1971, Conditions, Awards and
Penances. These Policies can be found in the 1970 and 1971 Year Books. A
corrected table of Conditions is given in HCO P/L 14 March 1968 on page
247.] HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
Remimeo
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 18 OCTOBER 1967 Issue V
CONDITIONS ON ORGS OR DIVISIONS OR DEPTS CLARIFICATION
If an Org or Division or Department is assigned a Condition below
Normal Operation as a whole entity, it applies to all staff members at once
EXCEPT those individual staff members who can immediately show in person
the Org's Ethics Officer their true statistic as being Normal Operation or
above. The Org's E/O issues at once an Ethics order in a form to upgrade
these individuals promptly. Form of Conditions Change - ETHICS OFFICER
ORDER Org ___________________ Date ___________________ The (Org)
(____________________ Div) (________________________ Dept) having been
assigned a general Condition of
_______________________________________________, on inspection of the
statistics of
________________________________________________________________ (name)
__________________________________________________________________(post)
his/her condition is upgraded to
__________________ (If this order obtained by false statistic or
misrepresentation, a Condition of Non-Existence will be assigned.) Signed
__________________________________ Org Ethics Officer This is placed in the
staff member's file and that staff member assumes the upgraded condition,
not the general condition. If the statistic however is ever proven to be
false or the order obtained by misrepresentation or coercion or bribe or
favor, the staff member is then placed in a Condition of Non-Existence for
one week or until the N-E formula is followed whichever takes the longer.
The heads of the Org, Division or Dept may never be so upgraded. They may
protest directly for a re-evaluation to the assigners with statistical
proof, meanwhile assuming the assigned condition. In protesting they also
send copies of all stats and order to the Int E/O.
L. RON HUBBARD Founder LRH:jp.rd Copyright c 1967 by L. Ron Hubbard
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 18 OCTOBER 1967 Issue VI
Remimeo
ETHICS FAILURE TO FOLLOW OR APPLY CONDITION
Any executive failing to assign or enforce Conditions penalties below
normal is himself assigned the condition he or she should have assigned
until that post's stats are up (not necessarily that person's as transfer
may be needed). Any staff member failing to apply the formula or the
penalties of a Condition assigned unless relieved by the E/O or the
assigning authority or review of actual stats shall be downgraded one
Condition level. If he or she still fails to follow the downgraded formula
and penalty within 24 hours of receipt of the downgrade, it is downgraded
one more and so on. Sagged stats or crimes or high crimes are inexcusable.
Seniors must always seek to raise stats and prevent crimes and high crimes
by Condition Assignments the moment they are aware of the sag or the crime
or high crime. Staff members who see in their own sagged stats a Condition
coming up should act fast to get the stat up up before a Condition has to
be assigned.
L. RON HUBBARD Founder
LRH:jp.rd Copyright c 1967 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 20 OCTOBER 1967
Remimeo
ADMIN KNOW-HOW CONDITIONS, HOW TO ASSIGN
Every post and part of an org must have a statistic which measures the
volume of product of that post. The head of a part has the statistic of
that post. Every post or part of an org has a product. If it has no product
it is useless and supernumerary. An Exec Sec has the products of his or her
portion of the org. The first product of an Exec Sec is of course his or
her portion of the org's divisions. If the portion itself does not exist
then of course the Exec Sec has no stat at all as an Exec Sec even if very
busy-so he or she is not an Exec Sec despite the title. This is true of a
department head, a section head and a unit head. One can't really be the
one in charge if the thing one is in charge of doesn't exist. Also things
that don't exist themselves can have no product. The whole rationale (basic
idea) of the pattern of an org is a unit of 3. These are
THETAN
MIND BODY PRODUCT. In Division One the HCO Sec is the thetan,
Department One the MIND, Department Two the BODY and Department Three the
PRODUCT. The same pattern holds for every division. It also should hold for
every department and lower section and unit. And above these it holds for a
portion of an org. In the HCO portion of the org we have the HCO Exec Sec
as the thetan, the Exec Div (7) as the MIND, Division One as the BODY and
Division Two as the PRODUCT. And so with other parts of an org. They always
go THETAN
MIND BODY PRODUCT. Now if you know and understand and can apply this
you can not only plan or correct an org or one of its parts, you can also
assign Conditions correctly. You need data gained from inventories or
counts of items or the statistic assigned and drawn. It is not enough to
only follow graphs. That is a lazy lazy lazy no confront method when used
alone. Graphs can be falsified, can be too fixed on one thing and can
ignore others unless you read all the graphs of the part you are interested
in. Graphs are a good indicator and should be used wherever possible. BUT
you must also keep in mind that it requires ALL the graphs to be wholly
accurate in a Conditions assignment and the most accurate Conditions
assignment possible and that the graphs must be based on ACTUAL figures.
So, to begin, you look at the graphs. You look for recent ups and downs.
Then you look for trends (long range drifts up or down). Then you look for
discrepancies. Like high enrollment-low income, high letters out, low
enrollment weeks later. It is safe enough at first to simply assign
moderate conditions (Emergency, Normal, Affluence) by the current ups and
downs of the graphs. This should result in expansion. EXPANSION (product
increase) is THE WHOLE REASON you are assigning conditions in the first
place, so you expect reasonably that if you assign conditions by graph.you
will get expansion. Now, after a while (weeks or months) you see you are
getting expansion so you go on assigning conditions by graph. An Exec Sec
would also inspect the physical areas of Dangers and Affluences as a matter
of course. BUT let us take the reverse case. You assign conditions by graph
(and inspections of Danger and Affluence) and what you are assigning
conditions to DOESN'T expand! Well, now we get to work. There is something
wrong. The first thing that can be wrong is that what you are assigning
conditions to really doesn't exist. The Director of Comm does not have a
Department of Comm. He has only a messenger-telex operator, no way to
handle his other departmental functions and answers the phone himself. So,
finding no Department REGARDLESS OF OTHER REASONS ("can't get staff"
"income too low" "no quarters") you bang him with a Condition of Non-
Existence. Because he obviously doesn't exist as a Dir Comm, having no Comm
Dept. (Non-Existence is also assigned for NO USE and NO FUNCTION.) Now, if
this assignment to the Dir Comm of Non-Existence-with no further help from
you, mind-does not result in a Comm Dept in a reasonable time you assume he
doesn't want one to be there and you assign a Condition of Liability. You
don't explain it all away. That's what he's doing so why imitate him? You
don't say, "He's just overwhelmed-new-needs a review-natter natter figure
figure." You simply ASSIGN! He STILL doesn't get a Comm Dept there. You
inspect. You find the Ethics Officer isn't enforcing the Liability penalty
("Pete is my pal and I..."). So you assign the Ethics Officer a Condition
of Liability as he gets, naturally, what he failed to enforce. Now they
mutiny and you assign a Condition of Treason, shoot both of them from guns
and fill the posts. The new incumbents you tell, "The boys before you
aren't here now and aren't likely to be trained or processed until we get
around to the last dregs so we hope you do better. You begin in Non-
Existence. I trust you will work your way out of it at least into Danger
before the week is out. As you are just on post, the penalties do not apply
for Non - Existence. But they will after 30 days. So let's get a Dept of
Comm and an Ethics Section." Now of course, if the E/O had to be shot from
guns, Dir I & R is at once assigned a DANGER CONDITION complete with
penalties as that section was in his/her Dept. If there's no HCO (Div 7, 1,
2) part of the Org the LRH Comm of that org yells for the next senior org
to act. And if there's no LRH Comm the next senior org should see that it's
gone by lack of stats or reports or expansion and act anyway. Now you say,
"But that's ruthless! No staff would......" Well, such a statement
reasoning is contrary to the facts. The only time (by actual experience and
data) you lose staff and have an unstaffed org is when you let low stat
people in. Low stat personnel gets rid of good staff members. An org that
can't be staffed has an SP in it! Orgs where Ethics is tight and savage
grow in numbers! Man thrives oddly enough only in the presence of a
challenging environment. That isn't my theory. That's fact. If the org
environment is not challenging there will be no org. We help beyond any
help ever available anywhere. We are a near ultimate in helping. At once
this loads us up with SPs who would commit suicide to prevent anyone from
being helped and it lays us wide open as "softees" to any degraded being
that comes along. They are sure we won't bite so they do anything they
please. Conditions correctly assigned alone can detect and.eject SPs and
DBs. So if we help so greatly we must also in the same proportion be able
to discipline. Near ultimate help can only be given with near ultimate
discipline. Tech can only stay itself where Ethics is correctly and
ruthlessly administered. Admin like ours has to be high because our orgs
handle the highest commodity-life itself. So our admin only works where
tech is IN. And our tech works only where Ethics is in. Our target is not a
few psychiatric patients but a cleared universe. So what does THAT take?
The lowest confront there is is the Confront of Evil. When a living being
is out of his own valence and in the valence of a thoroughly bad even if
imaginary image you get an SP. An SP is a no-confront case because, not
being in his own valence, he has no viewpoint from which to erase anything.
That is all an SP is. BUT the amount of knowing havoc an SP can cause is
seen easily if only in this planet's savage cruel wars. An executive who
cannot confront evil is already en route to becoming suppressive. Next door
to the "theetie-weetie" case is the totally overwhelmed condition we call
SP (suppressive person). It is so easy to live in a fairyland where nothing
evil is ever done. One gets the image of a sweet old lady standing in the
middle of a gangster battle with bodies and blood spattering the walls
saying, "It's so nice it's only a boy's game with toy guns." The low
statistic staff member who never gets his stats up is making low stats. He
isn't idle. It's a goodie-goodie attitude to say, "He just isn't working
hard." The chronic low stat person is working VERY HARD to keep the stat
DOWN. When you learn that you can assign conditions and make an org expand.
When stats WON'T come up, you drop the Condition down. Sooner or later you
will hit the REAL condition that applies. Conversely as you upgrade
conditions you will also reach the condition that applies. Some staff
members are in chronic power. Who ever assigns it? They take over a post-
its stats soar. Well, to measure just stats of the post taken over as his
condition is false since his personal condition is and has been power. And
if it is power, then that personal condition should be assigned. That is
very easy to see. BUT what if you have a personnel who whenever he or she
takes over a post the stat collapses! Well you better assign that one too.
For just as the one in Power works to maintain up stats, the one in the
lower condition, whether one cares to confront it or not, works too and is
just as industriously collapsing not only his own post stats but also the
stats of posts adjacent to his! So he is at least a Condition of Liability
as the post if vacant would only be in Non-Existence! And as somebody next
to it might do a little bit for it, it might even get up to Danger
Condition, completely unmanned! DISCREPANCIES
When there are discrepancies amongst statistic graphs SOME graph is
false. When you find a false graph you assign anyone who falsified it
intentionally and knowingly a Condition of Liability for that action is far
worse than a non-compliance. And you had better be alert to the actual area
where the false graph originated as it has a tiger in it. Only physical
inspection of a most searching kind (or a board if it is distant) will
reveal the OTHER crimes going on there. There are always other crimes when
you get a false report. Experience will teach one that if he really looks.
RECIPROCITY
It is more than policy that one gets the condition he fails to
correctly and promptly assign and enforce. It's a sort of natural law. If
you let your executives goof off and stay in, let us say, a Danger
Condition yet you don't assign and enforce one, they will surely put YOU in
a Danger Condition whether it gets assigned or not. Remember that when your
finger falters "on the trigger". That natural law stems from this appalling
fact. We didn't, a long long time ago, get in Ethics. We goofed. And the
whole race went into the soup where it remains to this day. And if we are
to live in this universe at all at all we are going to have to get in
Ethics and clean it up. Whether that's easy to confront or not is beside
the point. The horrid truth is that our fate is FAR more unconfrontable!
Now we have to have highly skilled Tech to bail us out. And I assure you
that tech will never get in or be used beneficially at all unless 1. We get
Ethics in, and 2. Unless Scientology orgs expand at a regular rate. Only
then can we be free. So that's how and WHY you assign and enforce
conditions. It's the only way everyone finally will win.
L. RON HUBBARD Founder
LRH:jp.rd Copyright c 1967 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 23 OCTOBER 1967
Remimeo
ENEMY FORMULA
(Modifies HCO Pol Ltr of 6 Oct 1967 on Lower Conditions Formulas)
The formula for the Condition of Enemy is just one step:
FIND OUT WHO YOU REALLY ARE.
L. RON HUBBARD Founder
LRH:jp.rd Copyright c 1967 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
Remimeo
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 8 FEBRUARY 1968
ADMIN KNOW-HOW #18 STATISTIC RATIONALIZATION "Rationalizing a
statistic" is a derogatory term meaning finding excuses for down
statistics. Finding excuses or reasons why a stat is down does NOT bring it
up and at best is a scathing comment on the lack of foresight or initiative
of the executive in charge of the area. What is wanted is (1) prevention of
stats going down and (2) quick action to bring them up. Being reasonable
about their being down should be regarded as AGREEMENT WITH THEIR BEING
DOWN. Which is, of course, suppressive. "Well, the letters out stat is down
because we were paying a girl so much per letter and 'policy' stated we
could not hire anyone so we fired her and that's why letters out is down."
That was an actual rationalization given in Wash D.C. for the collapse of
the org last year. To begin, there is no such "policy" and surely no policy
exists to have down stats. So, here the felony is compounded by seeking to
blame policy for a down stat which for sure revealed the action as a
suppressive effort to rationalize (and get away with) a down stat. The only
reason stats are down, ever, is because somebody didn't push them up. All
other reasons are false. IDEE FIXE Some people have a METHOD of handling a
down stat which is a fixed idea or cliche they use to handle all down stat
situations in their lives. These people are so at effect they have some
idea sitting there "that handles" a down statistic. "Life is like that." "I
always try my best." "People are mean." "It will get better." "It was worse
last year." They KNOW it isn't any use trying to do anything about anything
and that it is best just to try to get by and not be noticed-a sure route
to suicide. Instead of seeking to prevent or raise a declining stat in life
such people use some fixed idea to explain it. This is a confession of
being in apathy. One can always make stats go up. Hard work. Foresight.
Initiative. One can always make stats go up. That's the truth of it, and it
needs no explanations.
L. RON HUBBARD Founder
LRH:jp.rd Copyright c 1968 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 14 MARCH 1968
Re mimeo
The following is the corrected table of Conditions: Power Power Change
Affluence Normal Operation Emergency Danger Non-Existence Liability Doubt
Enemy Treason (below Enemy) is defined as Betrayal after trust. Formerly
was differently placed and defined as accepting money.
L. RON HUBBARD Founder LRH:jc.rd Copyright c 1968 by L. Ron Hubbard
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
Remimeo
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 16 OCTOBER 1968 (Reissued from Flag Order 1474 of
the same date)
The formula for the condition of Treason is
"Find out that you are"
L. RON HUBBARD Founder LRH:ja.ei.rd Copyright c 1968 by L. Ron
Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 13 FEBRUARY 1969 Remimeo Issued as an FO ETHICS
PROTECTION CONDITIONS, BLUE STAR, GREEN STAR, GOLD STAR (Modifies,
clarifies any earlier FO on Ethics Protection)
BLUE STAR A Class II Auditor who has his Staff Status II may assign
his or her own ethics conditions when requested to do so. He or she may be
given Ethics Hearings or removed from post pending an ordered Comm Ev for
crimes or high crimes. GREEN STAR Scientologists who are CLASS IV Auditors
or above and who have graduated from an Org Exec Course may NOT be assigned
arbitrary Ethics Conditions but may be required by seniors to assign
themselves a Condition. There is no penalty if they do not. Such may not be
given a Court of Ethics. They may be Comm Eved for HIGH CRIMES only as per
earlier Pol Ltrs. These include failure to take Responsibility and failure
to act with initiative in circumstances which, not handled, bring damage to
others or serious overwork. Such a person duly appointed to a post or duty
who then, by absence from it, neglect of it or failure to show initiative
on it, brings about a decline of the post and damage to it or areas around
it or HIGH CRIMES may be Comm Eved, but must be Comm Eved in order to
remove him or her from the post. Such a person is called a GREEN STAR.
___________________ A CLASS VIII Auditor who has completed the Org Exec
Course has all the above Ethics Protection and also may not have any Comm
Ev finalised on him until the Comm Ev held and all evidence is forwarded to
the Sea Org for Review on his request. He is called a GOLD STAR.
___________________ CERTS AND AWARDS May issue an appropriate cert for the
above awards when attested to by an HCO Area Sec in any org. NOTE None of
these Ethics protections are valid and none can be claimed unless actually
applied for and awarded by Blue, Green and Gold Star certificates. These
can be awarded in any official org and can be applied for also by mail. The
certificate must be explicit and quote the actual lines of this Pol Ltr.
L. RON HUBBARD Founder LRH:sdp.ei.cden Copyright c 1969 by L. Ron
Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 20 APRIL 1969 Issue II
Remimeo
HATS, NOT WEARING
The formula for Treason is very correctly and factually, "Know THAT
you are". It will be found, gruesomely enough, that a person who accepts a
post or position and then doesn't function as it will inevitably upset or
destroy some portion of an org. By not knowing that he is the _____________
(post name) he is committing treason in fact. The results of this can be
found in history. A failure to be what one has the post or position name of
will result in a betrayal of the functions and purposes of a group. Almost
all organizational upsets stem from this one fact: A person in a group who,
having accepted a post, does not know THAT he is a certain assigned or
designated beingness is in TREASON against the group.
L. RON HUBBARD Founder
LRH:ja.ei.rd Copyright c 1969 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF I MAY AD 15 Issue III
Gen Non-Remimeo Hang Near New Org Board varnished over or relettered
ORGANIZATION THE DESIGN OF THE ORGANIZATION
As our Org Board and Org pattern we have not only an Org Board but a
"philosophical system", which gives us the levels of able and extra able
beings and an analysis of one's own life as well. If you look at the levels
written above the departments you find the spans of the Bridge which are
followed to Release, Clear and OT. You can easily see which ones are
missing in one's own life and the lives of others. These are the upper end
of the awareness scale. When you look at the department names you can see
what is missing in your own life. You can also see where your post or your
job breaks down, for every job has all these "department names". When you
look at the Division names you see what the Cycle of Production must be in
this Universe to be successful. By studying this you can see why other
businesses fail. They lack one or another of these divisions. Although the
organization seems to have a great many departments, and would fit only a
large group, it fits any org of any size. The problem presented me in
deriving this board was how to overcome continual org changes because of
expansion and applying it to organizations of different sizes. This board
goes from one person to thousands without change. Just fewer or more posts
are occupied. That is the only change. The staff ratio here is one
administration person in the five non-technical divisions to one technical
person in the Technical and Qualifications Divisions (excepting only staff
staff auditors and field staff members who count as Admin personnel). Staff
is added in rotation amongst the non-technical divisions every time a
technical person is put in the Technical or Qualifications Divisions. The
board is entered from the left and proceeds to the right. It is actually a
spiral with 7 higher than and adjacent to I. The organization corrects
itself through the Review Division, under the authority of the 7th
Division. Organizations go in phases. The phases agree with the Cycle of
Production. A forming org, unable yet to function fully, is a CLASS ZERO
Org. It is only at Recognition and gives a Class Zero Course only and uses
only Grade Zero processes. When it can give a Level I Course and use Grade
I processes it is a Class I Org. And so on. The HGC of the org may not
process above the class allowed in the Academy. The Review Case Cracking
Unit only may use processes above the class of the Org and then only when
its Review personnel are so authorized by Saint Hill. There are two
tendencies Man has that this board resolves. Man's systems are based on
groups and masses of people. Every person on this Org Board is
"statistized". That means the job he does is a statistic that can be
verified. He is not lost in a group. The tendency of filling up every box
indicated on an organization chart (which Man usually does) is checked by
the formula that there must be only one Admin staff member for every tech
as above. Thus Divisions 4 and 5 are heavy with personnel containing five
times as many as all the other divisions. In expanding, each department
acquires seven sections, every section then acquires seven sub-sections,
every sub - section acquires seven units. At this time of issue we find
Scientology itself just at the end of its Dissemination Cycle (Division 2)
and just entering upon the Organization Cycle (Division 3). There will be a
full and long Organization Cycle. This will eventually be followed by a
Qualifications Cycle in which we adjust civilization. After that will come
a Distribution Cycle in which we use Scientology elsewhere in the Universe,
and then will come the Source Cycle again, finding us all on a higher
plane. This pattern will probably be in use for a very long time. This
board is one of the very few things in Scientology which is not completely
new. It is taken from an ancient organization and which I have refined
through considerable experience by adding Scientology and our levels to it.
It is based on an extremely successful pattern. This org pattern is
designed not to make money or Scientologists as one might think. Its whole
purpose is to make the "Ability to Better Conditions", which is the mission
of Scientology.
THE LEVELS
Your main interest in this board is of course its levels. There are
over thirty-two levels to the left of the board, covering the average human
states. Our board shows how we move up onto the Bridge at Communications
(Level 0), and then progress division by division to Level VII. One
Division equals one Level left to right. The abilities recovered in these
levels are marked above the department names (Communication, Perception,
Orientation, Understanding, etc.) and take us all the way to a new state at
VII. As he progresses along this line left to right, a level is given the
person each time a division is passed. At Level V we find we can move
people from the lowest human states onto the Bridge, before we ourselves
exit at the top. Thus we leave behind us a Bridge. In 1950 when I said "For
God's sake Build a Better Bridge," I had to do it on my own. But here it
is, not only a bridge but also an organization to carry the weight of the
spanning, a very needful thing.
L. RON HUBBARD Founder
LRH:mh.jp.cden Copyright c 1965 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
[Note: See HCO P/L 15 December 1969, Class of Orgs, page 254, which
cancels classes of Orgs and permits any official Org to "perform and teach
any Class or Grade up to IV".] HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 26 OCTOBER 1967
Remimeo
THE PUBLIC DIVISIONS
This Policy Letter founds THE PUBLIC DIVISIONS. The theory of the Org
Board is basically
We have hitherto had only the Mind and Body (HCO and Org Divs) in an
Org. Consequently we have not expanded fast enough into the Public. Our
task is to make a cleared civilization. As we have not provided for the
public on our org board, it tends to become another determinism. In order
not to redo or alter the 1965 on 7 Division pattern we will leave all that
valid up to a time an org has more than 50 staff members. At that time the
org must have 3 Public Divisions instead of just one Div (6) devoted to it.
Thus when an org gets over 50 staff members, its divisions become 9. It is
then called a NINE DIV ORG. The 3 new divisions are HEADED by THE PUBLIC
EXECUTIVE SECRETARY. Former Division Six is simply expanded with each Dept
becoming a Division with added functions. The Division then becomes
DIVISION NINE - Executive Div Dept 27 - Office of LRH Dept 26 - Office of
HCO ES Office of Org ES Dept 25 - Office of Public ES DIVISION ONE - HCO
Div Dept 1 - Routings Appearances & Personnel Dept 2 - Communications Dept
3 - Inspections & Reports DIVISION TWO - DISSEM Div Dept 4 - Promotion Dept
5 - Publications Dept 6 - Registration DIVISION THREE - TREASURY Dept 7 -
Income Dept 8 - Disbursements Dept 9 - Records, Assets & Materiel DIVISION
FOUR - TECH Div Dept 10 - Tech Services Dept 11 - Training Dept 12 -
Processing DIVISION FIVE - QUALIFICATIONS Dept 13 - Examinations Dept 14 -
Review Dept 15 - Certs & Awards DIVISION SIX - Public Planning Dept 16 -
Public Planning Dept 17 - Public Communications Dept 18 - Public Reports
DIVISION SEVEN - Public Activities Dept 19 - Facilities Dept 20 -
Activities Dept 21 - Clearing DIVISION EIGHT - Success Dept 22 - Expansion
Dept 23 - Population Dept 24 - Success The various sections of old Div 6
are then spread under 3 divisions controlled by the Public Executive
Secretary. The full functions of the new departments are expressed in the
purpose of the Public Executive Secretary. TO HELP LRH CONTACT AND PROCESS
THE PUBLIC AND PUBLIC BODIES AND TO MAKE AND GUIDE THE GOVERNMENT OF A
CIVILIZATION. (Note: I am designing these 3 divisions also so they can
stand alone and form the org board of a small org or Franchise holder who
will then add the earlier two parts [HCO and Org] when he comes up to
Academy level.)
L. RON HUBBARD Founder LRH:jp.rd Copyright c 1967 by L. Ron Hubbard
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED [Amended by HCO P/L 12 September 1968, The Public
Divisions, Volume 6, page 11.] HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
Remimeo
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 15 DECEMBER 1969 URGENT
CLASS OF ORGS (Cancels any Pol Ltrs or Eds or orders to the contrary
including HCO PL 6 Feb 66.)
There is no such thing as a classed official org. Any official org
(not a Franchise or Gung Ho group) can perform and teach any Class or Grade
up to Class IV. This includes Standard Dianetics HDC and HDG. ONLY an
official org can teach Academy Courses and qualify students for Scientology
certificates. HDG can ONLY be taught by an official org. (This qualifies
Supervisors to teach HDC elsewhere.) Dianetic Certificates can only be
issued by an official org even when the course is taught elsewhere. The
difference between an official org and a Franchise or a Mission is that an
official org is looked to as a distribution point for source, runs on
policy, is responsible for its area and looks to its Continental Org and WW
for policy. It maintains the quality and standard of tech. It sets a
standard for instruction. If it maintains its ratio of Admin personnel to
Tech (auditors and supervisors) on a 2 Admin maximum for every tech person
and inclines toward I Admin to I Tech, and promotes well, maintains a
professional image, develops no backlogs and delivers excellent service and
cares for its field with ARC it should be far better paid and more solvent
than any Franchise. The idea of a "Public Division Org" is not very good.
It is far better to develop a full org as in LRH ED 49 INT, Organization
Program No. 1. So long as an org functions crisply with the services it can
deliver and defends itself as per Assistant Guardian actions, it can become
very prosperous, serve its community and do its large share in bettering
the community and doing its share in clearing the planet.
L. RON HUBBARD Founder
LRH:rs.eg.rd Copyright c 1969 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 8 FEBRUARY 1968 Issue II Remimeo Issue as a Flag
Order SEA ORG ZONES OF PLANNING The Sea Org is an obvious success. Its
promotional and mission actions resulted in a highest ever worldwide
statistic in early Feb 1968. The Zones of Activity of the Sea Org are
therefore of general interest and are outlined for future Sea Org planning.
MISSIONS TO ORGS The Sea Org sends its officers to individual orgs with
unlimited powers to handle (a) Ethics (b) Tech (c) Admin. A general Sea Org
Mission handles all three. Individual Sea Org Missions go out to handle
only one of the above also. An individual Sea Org mission may be sent to
handle a specific situation. The most successful Sea Org mission to date
handled (a) Ethics (b) Tech (c) Admin and a specific situation. PROMOTION
Sea Org promotional tours where Sea Org members address the public are a
major item. These work well in any way but would do best on invitation from
orgs and long term advance notice to public. General Sea Org promotion,
magazine, literature, is effective in general world wide stats as well as
Sea Org stats. SEA ORG TECH Controlling the upper end of the Bridge and
having so many Class VI and Class VIIs and OT Grade Vs and OT Grade VI
personnel, the technical level of the Sea Org is very high. That the public
knows it and these OT levels are real and exist and are available is a
factor in world wide stats, persuading people to begin the lower end of the
bridge. SEA ORG ACTIONS The actions of the Sea part of the Sea Org being
adventurous, is good will advertising. The confront and organizational
ability of Sea Org personnel is high above that of purely admin personnel.
Such activities give a strong base for Sea Org predominance. PUBLIC CONTROL
FACTORS The Sea Org has an area of public or political control based on A.
ETHICS ACTION B. PEACE C. FINANCE AND ADMIN The above are the basic
elements in Sea Org planning for use in future activities and for use by
orgs in coordinating with the Sea Org. L. RON HUBBARD Founder LRH:jp.rd
Copyright c 1968 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
NOT HCO POLICY LETTER CORRECT COLOUR FLASH BLUE ON WHITE EXECUTIVE
DIRECTIVE FROM L. RON HUBBARD Date 9 December 1969 LRH ED 49 INT ES Hats
ORGANIZATION PROGRAM NO. 1
[Includes correction of PES functions per LRH ED 58 Int]
HCOES for activation
Where an org is forming or where its stats are low or its performance
poor or it is failing it is URGENT that this LRH ED be put into immediate
effect. As the form of the org is the first thought and action of the HCO
Exec Sec, he or she should activate this ED as it applies, promptly and
positively. Where an org has less than five staff do the following, no
matter whether it is forming or performing poorly or failing. If the org
has less than 3 persons in it bring it up to 3 persons or it isn't an org.
Appoint this much org board HCO ES OES PES The senior auditor of the three
is the Org Exec Sec. The one who can type or manage is the HCOES. The one
with the best public reach is the Public Exec Sec. These three beings give
you the first glance at the 2 to 1 Admin-Tech ratio. An org may have 2 or
less Admin personnel to every Tech personnel (auditor or instructor). There
must never be more than 2 Admin to 1 Tech. No matter how many functions you
see on a 9 division Org Bd each one of the above is responsible for all the
major functions which appear in his org portion. This org board goes down
to as few as 3 staff members as above or as high as thousands. In its most
basic view, in such a tiny org the major duties are as follows: HCOES -
Form of org. Reception, Registration, Procurement letters. Central Files,
Ethics, Personnel, Appearance of org and staff, any LRH Comm and Assistant
Guardian duties. Communications, legal. The functions that MUST be covered
for the org's basic survival are Form of the org. Reception, Registration,
and Central Files. These are the income getting actions of her org. Anyone
who ever buys anything from the org whether via the PES such as a book or
small course, is INVOICED with the person's name and address very legible
and correct on the invoice and a copy of this goes to Central Files and
into a folder and into a file cabinet. To omit these actions prevents the
org from having a record for the Registrar to use to contact and sign
people up and the org will probably fail or go broke. This one admin action
is the most neglected and the most destructive. Addresses for mailings come
from CF folders and out of this Address will grow. These folders never
decay unless the person dies or asks to be taken off the list. Everything
relating to comm with this person and new invoices etc including phone
notes goes in his folder. OES - The Org Executive Secretary-Org Exec Sec
combines Accts, Tech and Qual functions. Elementary banking and bill paying
(with the registrar and PES both able to invoice in, giving the money over
to the OES with an invoice copy) is done by the OES. All auditing and major
course supervision is done by the OES. The combination of duties may look
all but impossible to combine but the strange part of it is, they do and I
have done all three at once in a small unit. The trick is to arrange one's
time. The major functions that must be done for the org to be successful
are safeguarding funds by recording and banking and paying bills, auditing
pcs, teaching students and correcting those cases that fail or students
that are slow. If one of those functions is omitted, especially correction
(Qual) then the org will falter and fail. PES - The Public Executive
Secretary-Public Exec Sec works to get NEW people. He does not work on
people who have already bought something unless they are dissatisfied or
ARC Broken with service and muddying up his field at which time he severely
gets the HCO ES to bring them in and smooth them out and the OES or a
higher org (preferably) to handle them as a tough case. If the HCO ES fails
to handle or the OES has out tech, the PES can have a very hard time of it.
By low level public courses, Sunday Services, invitations, lectures and
contacts and book sales, the PES gets people into the org, drives them in
in a number of ways. When they are in and getting some service the HCO ES
signs them up for higher level higher priced auditing and training. The PES
also runs group processing sessions and co-audits and schedules such
activities. As soon as possible he gets in a Field Staff Member Program
using persons who have had service. Getting people to give their success
stories is part of it. THE PES GETS OUT A TWICE MONTHLY NEWS LETTER TO HIS
FSMs TELLING THEM WHAT IS BEING SUCCESSFUL AND WHAT IS NOT. HE COAXES
FRANCHISES TO SELECT TO HIS ORG AND GIVES THEM ADVICE, PARTICULARLY BASED
ON WHAT OTHER FRANCHISES ARE DOING WELL. HE KEEPS HIMSELF INFORMED OF WHAT
IS SUCCEEDING AND KEEPS OTHERS ADVISED OF IT AND KEEPS THE PICTURE CURRENT
WITH CONTINUAL REOBSERVATION. He also sells memberships as well as books,
tapes, meters, insignia. Methods of getting new names and getting people
into the org vary. One follows the formula of pushing what was successful
and dropping what wasn't. However, all of the above functions are
accomplished by the PES. He is also the PRO and seeks to establish PRO Area
Control meaning keeping the area handled so the org is well thought of no
matter how hard this is to do where there is an active enemy or a muddied
up field or a hostile press. TECH BACKLOGS are the primary menace in an
org. If it can't deliver auditing it will shortly find no pcs apply.
Neither a tech nor qual backlog must ever exist and must be reduced. An org
is far better off selling courses and when pcs tend toward backlog the org
increases its tech staff on a long range and starts heavily pushing courses
on a short range basis as there is no real limit to the number of students
one can handle. Students also disseminate better and an org that only
audits pcs stays small and is more expensive to run.
ALL AUDITORS ACTIONS Whenever an org has a tech or qual backlog it is
usual to call an "all auditors" action. Any admin personnel assist with
scheduling and getting pcs in to the auditors without making pcs wait or
wasting an auditor's time. All tech trained personnel in the org devote a
certain number of hours in the day to delivering auditing for tech or qual
and spend a certain amount of time on their regular posts until the backlog
is gone. Too many of these "All Auditors" can cut an org to bits. They are
only done so long as there is a backlog. If too frequent the HCOES should
get in volunteer (but paid) field auditors to help (which was always MSH's
successful solution to tech backlogs). The HCOES is personnel so if
personnel stays short, particularly tech personnel, then the HCOES is not
taking adequate personnel action and doesn't have a Program to get adequate
or qualified staff auditors. Such programs are vital, their training and
support costs money. The program "Steal the VIs and VIIIs from another org"
is both dishonest and org wrecking and recoils on one's org eventually.
Interne programs for students help this problem and are to be found in
recent Policy Letters. The above describes a 3 man functioning org. Yet it
also describes all orgs. It is a circle. The HCOES, mind, routes people to
the org's body, the OES, who routes them to the PES as FSMs and the product
of the basis of a field. From a field stimulated by processed trained
people the PES routes new people to the HCOES and around it goes. If tech
and org integrity and service are good, you get an expansion. More and
knowledgeable people in the field stimulate more and more new people who
then by being routed to the HCOES etc. Around and around. The cycle is only
interrupted by inattentive or poor service resulting in ARC Breaks in the
field which if not handled end expansion. Even the attacks of competitors
and the press have never stopped this circle. Only inattentive service or
staff inattention to functions or poor service halts it. AN ORG THAT
BELIEVES ANYTHING ELSE IS DELUDING ITSELF. Thus organization and function
is everything.
THE BIGGER ORG No matter how many staff members an org may have the
above portions, functions and actions apply. What occurs is that the HCOES,
the OES and PES begin to acquire assistants. These have post titles. The
org board seems to have a larger form. But it is always the same org board,
the same functions. Let us say now we have an HCOES, an OES and a PES. And
we have two more staff members making five. One of these is an auditor. One
is a typist. As you must never exceed 2 to 1 of Admin-Tech ratio and if
possible keep it below that (it's less the bigger the org so that a fifty
staff member org has half its staff in tech and will go awry financially if
it doesn't have half in tech) as regards these two additionals, the auditor
goes to the OES for auditing and training help and the typist goes to the
HCOES to help write letters to people in CF. Now let us say we have 5 non
tech staff applicants show up. Obviously 4 will have to go into pre-staff
tech training but one can go to the PES temporarily. Meanwhile the OES has
some students graduating so the HCOES persuades some to interne which helps
the OES. And so it goes. The functions gradually build up. But they are
always assistants to the HCOES or the OES or the PES.
COMBINED HATS You normally fill posts by overload noted. But you
always bend toward Registration and Tech Service and Promotion. In the
HCOES portion hats can combine like LRH Comm-HCO Area Sec-Ethics Officer.
As the Guardian's Office is very successful, in areas under pressure we try
to keep this "single-hatted" on its own line to the Gdn WW. It is a catch-
all front line troops org correction sort of hat. As the LRH Comm is a
split off of the old HCO Area Sec hats these two combine very easily as HCO
Area Sees were LRH's first communicators. Where there is an LRH Comm single-
hatted the org would have to be a 40 or 50 staff member org. [See
footnote.] An E/O is more important to single hat in a larger org but if
not single hatted must be a specific duty of the HCOES or the HCO Area Sec.
The OES as he struggles up the line for more tech staff finds accounts
something he can well shed and so, an accounts personnel comes under his
early tech allocations. This is not stated in previous policy. The OES
assigns his better auditors to Qual actions but he continues to do tech
actions until the org is safely large. Early policy on VIIIs placed them in
Qual. However it assumes an org is there. An VIII in a tiny org would have
to be the OES and the Case Supervisor and also audit and it would be quite
a lot of more staff members later before he was now not the Case
Supervisor. Early on the OES splits apart training and processing as
separate departments and then finally a Qual. Until he has the traffic for
it he patches up the pcs other auditors flubbed. But if he is very clever
in a small org, the OES shunts all the goofed up hard pcs up to a larger
org right away and is satisfied to collect the FSM of it as such pcs stall
his lines or may be beyond local skill. That's what larger orgs are for.
The rougher pcs. The PES with his share of staff concentrates on his small
courses, book sales and magazine actions as the logical zones to fill and
with greater success tries to get a single-hatted Director of Clearing to
handle FSM actions and see them through.
SHRUNKEN ORGS We have covered the tiny org but the whole thing applies
to an org that has shrunk. The only real reasons an org shrinks are because
it (a) Followed illegal or destructive orders from above. (b) Failed to do
its job as an org as outlined in the earlier part of this paper-in other
words was disorganized. (c) Failed to give good service and got its field
muddied up with ARC Breaks. (d) Didn't outflow (letters, magazines, had no
PES functioning). (e) Didn't train or process its own staff. (f) Didn't
look or act sufficiently professional in staff member appearance and
conduct or in quarters. (g) Let huge backlogs occur without giving fast
good tech service. (h) Monitored its rate of sign-up against what a lazy
OES was willing to get handled or would arrange to get handled. (i) Let its
Admin-Tech ratio go kooky. (j) Was subjected to internal suppression which
blew off good staff and lost its safe environment without anyone locating
the SP. (k) Let itself be raided of auditors by the call of big money in
Franchise. (j) Let staff procurement be turned into freeloading.
To resolve these or other troubles one has to A. Confront what it was.
B. Remedy it vigorously. C. Get in the pattern and actions given in this ED
NOW NOW NOW.
REORGANIZATION To use this ED to reorganize an org or to increase its
effectiveness, restudy the basic functions of the HCOES, OES, and PES as
given here, consider that these three people are the working people of the
org and need assistance. Don't consider them executives. Consider the HCOES
with her hands full of interviews-registration-comm-Ethics functions,
consider the OES as having his hands full of pcs and students and doing
accounts between Case Supervision and lecturing and consider the PES
scrambling around the area selling new people the idea of coming in for
service and running an FSM sales staff, organizing groups and placing and
collecting for books in bookstores and you see them in the expected light,
acting but needing help. If you see these as high status orderers of
destiny with uncalloused hands operating from mysterious forces with
incomprehensible requirements, the org is up the chimney already. We at the
top of Scientology work and work hard. And the duties are as roughly
outlined at the beginning of this ED. All the way to the top I still C/S
case folders or keep tabs on the C/Sing for pcs around. I still drive
students to complete. I intervene when your books show cash-bills reversed.
I work in the other two ES sectors, actually work in them and do my own
research-writing hats besides. Right this moment, I am handling your org
personally. The first question I'm asking, "Have you got Ethics Program No.
1 basically done?" Right away get the results packaged and sent off. The
second question, "Have you got a backlog in Tech or Qual? How many auditors
anywhere in the org? OK, get an All Auditors going now, today!" The third,
"What's the state of ARC Breaks in your field? OK PES round them up and get
them to the HCOES and then into Qual to get their overts pulled. Overts?
You heard me. Overts. Then put in their Life Ruds." The fourth question,
"Where's your Ethnic survey, PES, on what people think staff should be
dressed like? To look more professional. Get it done, and on HCOES orders
get the money squeezed out of the OES and buy some outfits for the Ethics
Upstats and reliable contracted execs. And get this place cleaned and
neated up." The fifth question, "What's your outflow? That's not good
enough. Get it organized-magazine, Info packs, letters from letter reg. All
hands onto any stuffing-mailing cycle." The sixth question, "How neat and
complete is your CF? Get any and all folders out of mothballs and get a
project going on it as you can." The seventh question, "What state is your
Address in? Good. Work it over so it is the exact index of your CF as you
can. Meanwhile use it." The eighth question, "What's your Tech-Admin ratio?
All right, get the trained auditors into Tech and Qual and off Admin posts.
Assign one to HCOES and one to PES up to a 2 to 1 ratio and put the rest on
full time training. Get personnel staff member procurement going right away
of people who will be Ethics upstats. OK, let's post it up holding as many
posts stable as we can but double triple batting them where we can't
cover." The ninth question, "How is Staff Training Program No. 1 going? All
right, smooth those out. Soon as they're ready get this staff audited." The
tenth question, "What students do you have on courses that are slow or
blowey. All right Registrar here's HCOB 23 November 69. OES to Starrate it
for action on the Tech Auditors and Registrar to sell each slow student a
five hour Student Rescue Intensive." The eleventh question, "Have you got
your staff broken contracts list? Turn it over to the HCOES's people for
further action. Oh, you say some of the VIIIs you trained up were lured off
by a higher org and Franchise? Well, we'll make do here and audit with what
we've got and I'll pass the contract breaker names to the Sea Org for their
further attention, poor souls." "You say what do you do with the bill
collectors and the enemy and the half complete project on surveying
salesmen? Well, I'll tell you. You turn those over to the respective Exec
Sees each comes under and the enemy to the Guardian's Office and get the
show on the road. You'll never clear the planet sitting around here
worrying. Remember the old maxim? When all else fails, do What Ron Said."
Love, Ron L. RON HUBBARD Founder [The above issue is amended by HCO
P/L 9 July 1970, LRH Comm-Single flatting, which states: "Amends LRH ED 49
INT by omitting 'where there is an LRH Comm single-halted the Org would
have to be a 40 or 50 staff member Org.' "] HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 6 DECEMBER 1969 Issue II
All Dissern Hats All Public Div. Hats
HOW TO CLEAR YOUR COMMUNITY ILLUSTRATIONS
The following illustrations are the basic steps in Clearing your
community. These steps are covered in detail in HCO Pol. Letters in the Org
Exec Course. The Illustrations must be prominently displayed in Numerical
order in the Central Files area, the Letter Registrar area and the Division
8 Department 22 area in your org. Sets of these pictures are to be printed
up by Pubs Org for display purposes in the above areas. Pubs Org should
also have these printed photo litho as a small picture book for FSMs.
W/O Cathy Cariotaki F/Expansion Officer & W/O Richard Gorman F/Artist
for Lt. Cmdr. Diana Hubbard CS-6 for L. RON HUBBARD Founder LRH: DH. RG.
CC. rs. rd Copyright c 1969 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 15 SEPTEMBER 1965
Remimeo
ONLY ACCOUNTS TALKS MONEY (HCO Policy Letter of March 15, 1965
Revised)
Scientology organizations are service organizations. Now, it goes
without saying, that service costs money. So please don't equate service
with the idea that it is all give away. People expect to pay for good
service, and they do pay for good service, unless you barrier the line, or
by some foolish handling, convince them otherwise. It is the job of the
Distribution Division to find people to communicate to, and the job of the
Letter Registrar to communicate to these on an individual basis and to
promote to them the service that best suits their needs and goals, and the
job of the Advance Scheduling Reg to see that they are scheduled for that
service and to help them get to the org for it, and the job of the Body Reg
is to see to it that when they get to the org, that they are signed up and
routed to that service, and when they have had it, to see that they did,
and to bridge them to further service. The whole operation here is to
CHANNEL PEOPLE TO THE PROPER SERVICE, AND WHEN THEY HAVE RECEIVED THAT
SERVICE, TO CHANNEL THEM TO FURTHER SERVICE. Now, the above org personnel,
knowing about the Road to Truth and hence knowing an infinity more about
the person usually, than he or she knows about himself or herself, must
take responsibility for this and channel them and keep them on the Road
until the person cognites and reaches for the rest of the Road himself.
Even then, they must now and then be kept from falling into pitholes, side
paths, etc, that the confusions and randomities and distractions of life
present. But none of this has anything to do with money, except that such
services are expected to be paid for. Money is an Accounting function. When
money is a concern of a Registrar, and "How is he going to pay for this"
and "We have got to keep our units up", and "Gads, I have got to write up a
note form now", and "That's going to cost him too much", when any
Registrar's concern is all about money, money, MONEY, MONEY, MONEY-he or
she gets all inverted into what are we going to get out of it, instead of
what the person is going to get out of it. In all his years of auditing,
which exceed anything any of the rest of us have even dreamed about, Ron
has never talked to the guy who wanted some auditing or whatever about
money. Yes, it was understood it was going to cost something and what it
would cost, but that was the end of it. Ron's concern was for the guy and
getting him better, and he was not even remotely worried about the money,
and the money rolled in because he got the guy better. Sometimes he was
paid in eggs and cheese, but the guy was wanting to pay because he got
service. Ron never had a problem about money, and he never talked about
money. The Registrar's concern about money barriers the line for someone
coming in, and that's an overt any Scientologist recognizes-to barrier the
line of someone coming into Scientology. When a Registrar answers up to
someone's desire for service with a confused mess concerning money, that
confusion is a barrier. And if a Registrar's concern is on money instead of
service then her communications are going to communicate a confusion, and
barrier the line. It amounts to an alter-is, so REGISTRARS ARE FORBIDDEN TO
TALK, WRITE OR THINK ANYTHING ABOUT MONEY. Well, how about money, then? How
does this get handled? Simple. MONEY IS AN ACCOUNTING FUNCTION. It IS the
proper concern of Accounts. (Div 3-Dept of Income.) With Accounts, money is
simply collected. Accounts collects from the person the amount of the price
of the service desired. That is all there is to it. It collects the amount,
invoices it and routes a copy of the invoice through the org lines to the
Division that the service is to be delivered in, so that they may know it
is all right to go ahead and deliver the service. The Invoicing Cashier in
Department 7, Division 3 is at post preferably in a wicket. This is exactly
like a theatre ticket front, complete with the glass window with the hole
(small and awkward) in it to talk through and the hole at the bottom to
slide money through. Any accounts office door, if up front in the org, can
be fixed with a half door to look like this. It would not at all be out of
place for the cashier to wear a green eyeshade, and have a very detached
attitude about anything except money or money matters. Very businesslike.
Posted on the outside of the wicket or immediately in the area on display
signs are the prices for books, materials and services offered by the org.
If the cashier is asked for data, he points to the proper sign. A person
coming into the org first comes into Reception. If the person wants a
service he or she is routed to the Body Registrar. The Body Reg talks about
and signs the person up for service. If the person has a question about the
cost, the Body Reg says "You will need to talk to Accounts about that" and
routes them to the Invoicing Cashier, who shows them the prices on the
display signs. When the Body Reg has signed the person up for the service
on proper contract and release forms, the person is routed to the Invoicing
Cashier for paying. When paid the white copy of the invoice goes to the
person, and the pink copy is routed immediately to the Division the service
is to be performed in - generally Tech (pink gets routed to Dept 10-Tech
Services)-or Qual (pink gets routed to the Invoicing Officer of Dept of
Review). The Invoicing Cashier (Dept 7) always expects for the service to
be paid for i.e. expects cash, not credit. The subject of credit must not
be brought up by the Invoicing Cashier. For example, the question would be
"Are you going to pay this by cash or check?"-NEVER "Is this going to be
cash or credit?" If the person is going to ask for credit, then it must be
his origination. In the event it is asked for, then it must have the Org
See's OK, who before giving it, must check the person's past credit record
with the org. People who have a bad payment record on their org bills must
not be extended further credit. When credit is extended, a proper note must
be signed at 12% interest if not paid in 90 days and they must sign the
debiting invoice. When the service is completed with the person, the last
person he sees on the org lines is the Body Registrar, who channels the
person to further service. The Reception area, Invoicing Cashier, and Book
Store should be located close to one another. If someone comes in wanting a
book, he or she is routed to the Book Store in which books are on display,
but separated as to if they are for Beginners or Advanced Scientologists.
The books for Beginners and to the public books should be prominently
marked by Display signs. When the book or books are selected, the person
pays the Invoicing Cashier and receives their invoice (white). The book
must be paid for before it is handed over to him or her. The pink invoice
is marked 'Book Store-Delivered' and routed at the end of the day to the
Shipping Department for entry on the Book Dept Income Sheet and then to the
'Shipped' records. The Book Store should be close to the Reception area but
remember that to have Reception selling books is crossing Divisions.
Reception only routes. However, in the immediate Reception area should be
Display posters on books, Free Introductory Lecture, BS Course, graphs, and
other promotional material-all prominently displayed. If someone comes in
asking "What is Scientology", the Receptionist routes him to the Free
Introductory Lecture by giving him an Invitation, and routes him to the
Book Store for a book that covers Beginning Scientology. The Receptionist
is forbidden to try to explain Scientology or processing. If someone comes
in not knowing what they want, but that they want to talk to someone about
Scientology, the Receptionist routes them to the Body Reg to channel them
into a Service. The Letter Registrar may not talk money. However, he or she
may enclose rate cards for org services and book price lists. So please
each Division do its own work. Registrars-channeling to service; Reception-
routes; and only Accounts talks money.
L. RON HUBBARD LRH:mh.rd Copyright c 1965 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL
RIGHTS RESERVED
[See also HCO P/L 3 August 1970, Registrars May Now Talk Money-Only
Accounts Talks Money Details, in the 1970 Year Book; HCO P/L II March 1971
Issue I, Registrar Invoicing Line, Volume 2-page 349, Volume 3-page 268;
HCO P/L 26 October 1971 Issue II, Statistic of the Body Registrar, and HCO
P/L 2 February 1972, Invoicing Clarification, in the 1971 and 1972 Year
Books.] HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 21 NOVEMBER 1968 Remimeo
SENIOR POLICY
We always deliver what we promise.
L. RON HUBBARD Founder
LRH:ei.rd Copyright c 1968 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 30 JULY 1968 Remimeo
GROSS INCOME SENIOR DATUM
THE SIZE NOT THE QUALITY OF AN ORG'S MAILING LIST AND THE NUMBER OF
MAILINGS AND LETTERS TO IT DETERMINES THE GROSS INCOME OF AN ORG. IF THIS
IS NOT KNOWN AS A SENIOR DATUM TO EXEC SECS AND KEPT IN BY THEM THEIR
CONDITION IS TREASON.
L. RON HUBBARD Founder
LRH:js.rd Copyright c 1968 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 18 NOVEMBER 1969 Issue I
Remimeo Pub Div Hats Div 2 Hats HCO ES Hat OES Hat PES Hat
CENTRAL FILES VALUE OF THE GROSS INCOME OF THE ORG AND WHY
The easy way orgs give away their Central Files or pieces of them to
other orgs indicates a complete miss on their value. The average file
folder in a CF file never costs less than
10 a folder to obtain. When you think of all the work and mailings of
the Public Divisions and realize that the direct Product of that thought
and activity is a CF folder you begin to get some idea of what it cost to
have a folder to file. The gross income catastrophes that follow giving
another org the CF folders of its area are fantastic. One check showed Wash
DC dropped and lost around
27,000 Gross Income in about one quarter after it gave away pieces of
their CF to small East Coast US orgs which didn't even have the facilities
to use them. SH left half a ton of US CF folders in London unshipped to the
US for a long time. The astonishing thing is the tame presentation of at
least
280,000 worth of folders to ASHO with no thought of making any deal.
Jbg some years ago "misplaced" its basic 6500 CF address list and lost the
files utterly. It took 2 years to find the list (they had left it in an old
attic) and then for 2 more years did nothing with it. Stats down all the
time of course. Treasonable propaganda to the effect "it's an old file"
"those names aren't hot anymore" encourage the disuse and disposal of CF
files. Yet a 5 year old file where the person has been written to dozens of
times can suddenly come alive, the person walking into the org. I have seen
dozens of "disposed" "inactive" files worked over and produce thousands of
dollars. So a file is worth at least
10 or more to get but it is worth hundreds when continually written
to. An org's potential fortune, its potential gross income is its CF. So
what would you think of a staff member or executive who simply gave away
big pieces of the gross income. Well, think the same thing of someone who
gives away CF folders. Or who lets their address go stale. Or who fails to
keep them up and work them over. In the US if anyone changes his address,
the Post Office only keeps the change of address card for 6 months. DC,
failing to mail to a 40,000 CF list two or three times a year lost 27,000
of those names because the people moved, the address change at the PO got
torn up and nobody could be reached anymore. The process by which you get
your Gross Income, your portion of proportionate pay and which pays for
further dissern and PRO and service is not a mysterious action. People
don't just walk in out of the blue. The Public Divisions get people into CF
(by definition, CF is "people who have bought something from an org"). Then
Div 2 gets them into higher services by Ltr Reg or phone actions. Then
upper orgs get them into upper services by paying FSM commissions to the
lower orgs. It can get very baffling how this simple and ONLY source of
gross income can be so missed that an org gives away its CF. Even if "that
folder" has bought everything that org has, it is still worth a 10% FSM
commission to the org who owns it if that org selects it and sends it
literature. Honest, believe me, this is the only route by which you get in
gross income: 1. Public Div actions 2. Div 2 actions 3. Good service
actions 4. FSM to upper orgs. There isn't any other route for all other
routes also have to follow this route. Even Pub Div FSM selections come
back into CF for further action after first service. Public Div actions
mean "New names to CF." Is CF then only able to sell to "new" names? If so
your Division II isn't worth scrapping. Or your Divs IV and V need a
hammering for having out-tech and muddying up a field. Listen: There is no
other route to Gross Income than via CF. Aside from dead people or people
who want off the list or people who move with no address change THERE IS NO
VALID CF AGE. Address of course is the CF index as well as who gets the
magazine. "Yes", somebody says, "but SIOUX Falls is West of our
territory..... And the org there said......" Listen, I wouldn't give
another org the time of day if my org got the CF. Stop being so big hearted
with your org's future gross income. An OES, worried about having enough
money to keep the org going and provide services would be amazed to find
out what would happen to his GI if he forced this Pol Ltr to be checked out
on the whole org. I'll bet better than 90% of staff haven't a clue as to
how or why or by what route they get ANY income at all. It's all in this
Pol Ltr.
L. RON HUBBARD Founder
LRH:rs.ei.rd Copyright c 1969 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
NOT HCO POLICY LETTER CORRECT COLOUR FLASH BLUE ON WHITE EXECUTIVE
DIRECTIVE
11 January 1968 ED 805 INT (Originally issued as Flag Order 340)
SPEED OF SERVICE
In the matter of courses and students SPEED of service is of vital
importance. The prosperity of a business is directly proportional to the
speed of flow of its particles (despatches, cables, goods, messengers,
students, customers, agents, etc.). To prosper, service must be as close to
instant as possible. Anything which stops or delays the flows of a business
or delays or puts a customer or product on WAIT is an enemy of that
business. Good management carefully isolates all stops on its flow lines
and eradicates them to increase speed of flows. Speed of service is of
comparable magnitude to quality of service and where exaggerated ideas of
quality exist they must become secondary to speed. Only then can a business
prosper.
L. RON HUBBARD Founder
[The above ED has also been issued as HCO P/L 27 December 1972, same
title.]
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 19 MARCH 1968
(HCO Policy Letter of October 29, 1959 Issue II amended and re-issued)
All Fran. Hids.
SERVICE
It has come to my attention that some Central Orgs are not quick to
furnish service and co-operation to Franchise Holders or Field Auditors,
and also that these are sometimes upset with Central Orgs. It is not true
that Franchise Holders are all out to destroy Central Orgs. It is not true
that all Central Orgs are out to do in Franchise Holders. Both Central Orgs
and Franchise Holders are inter-dependent. Further, I have never intended
Scientology Orgs or Groups to be bits of third dynamic each opposed. For
nine years Dianetic and Scientology Orgs and Groups have tended to
individuate to my sorrow. We will win if we are Scientology not a lot of
isolated groups. The watchword is SERVICE. I don't care how many rules you
break if they're broken to give unselfish service to one another and the
public. We live for service not for rules. If the combined power of all of
us and all organizations were exerted as a shoulder to shoulder effort we
would take this planet just as we are and with no more than we know.
"Competition" is a trick of the weak to fetter the strong. Where there's a
group to be helped or a preclear to be processed or a student to be
trained, see that it's done and if it gets done don't count the costs in
broken rules. We are essentially an evolutionary group. All of us together.
We must not fetter ourselves beyond increasing our own efficiency, nor must
we entangle our purposes with arbitrary laws which do not further our
cause. Service is the watchword. Orderly service is preferable to
disorderly service but any service is better than no service. We are
essentially breakers of "now-I'm-supposed-to's". Don't fall into our own
new rituals so hard that we are no longer brave and effective. Worldwide we
are doing better today because of orderly comm lines and administrative
patterns, we are making more headway and suffer less confusion, but don't
worship our rituals. Be as orderly as you can. Follow our rules as best you
can. But a rule can be wrong and service and our mission can never be
wrong. Use the rules until they prevent you from doing your job. But if
these stop you, then to hell with the rules! Get the show on the road!
L. RON HUBBARD Founder
LRH:jc.rd Copyright c 1968 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 25 MARCH 1963
RE-ISSUE SERIES (11) CenOCon SHSBC Students Franchise Field A MODEL
HAT FOR AN EXECUTIVE (Re-issue of HCO Bulletin of September 19, 1958)
- Primary - To accomplish the purposes of the organization and/or his
department on a continuing basis by the use of adequate organization and
personnel. To get people in his or her department or organization to get
the work done. To understand the jobs of staff members and to get them to
ably wear all of their hats. - Secondary - To gain compliance with old or
create new standard policy as necessary and to gain compliance in
particular with the policy laid down by the Board and the policy already
existing in standard hats. Planning of campaigns and activities to create
new or fulfill old demands and to utilize thereby personnel. Personnel:
Improving his personnel's understanding of their posts and duties and
improving their interest and activity on that post. Acquiring new personnel
as needed on that post. Adjusting work burden. ________________ An
executive must realize that this is his whole hat as an executive and that
any other activity in which he is engaged than the above is another hat and
should be written up as such and is no part of his executive hat. He must
also be certain that an adequate amount of his time is spent filling his
executive post, not another post he holds as a staff terminal.
________________ See HCO Bulletin of August 27, 1958, entitled "Executives
of Scientology Organizations". (Re-issue Series [3] dated October 30,
1962.) ________________ The task of an executive is to put hats on people.
Therefore, he should be very careful not to violate hats by introducing
emergency programmes which pull off hats or by "temporarily" pulling people
off post to do jobs not covered by their hats. If he has such jobs not
covered by hats he should make provisions for their accomplishment in
existing hats or create new hats. ________________ Executives should not
write critical or confusing dispatches to terminals having to do with their
performance of duty. Such matters as conduct or rearrangement of post
should be taken up with the terminal directly. The only writing is done
after the fact of arrangements. Wide open comm lines such as we have cannot
tolerate critical, confusing or distempered dispatches. There is no reason
here to learn by experience what is already known-entheta on free comm
lines can disturb an organization's comm system beyond belief. This applies
equally to dispatches from terminals to executives. In the case of an
executive in one part of the world having difficulty with the conduct of a
terminal in another part of the world, do not dispatch the terminal.
Dispatch instead the executive in that part of the world closest to
the terminal-explain the situation to that executive and have him take it
up personally with the terminal. Even in a local operation, if you cannot
interview the terminal in question, do not send a critical dispatch to him.
Have the nearest executive to the terminal take it up with that terminal.
No dispatch goes directly to such a distant terminal.
(THE ABOVE IS FACT; THE FOLLOWING IS MY OPINION AND MAY BE CONSIDERED
CONTROVERSIAL:)
Anyone will discover, in actually dealing with people, that these
factors dominate: 1. People are willing to do their best and will until
hammered about it. 2. Most causes for complaint are based not on misconduct
but on misunderstanding. 3. Only personal contact can restore
understanding. 4. Written criticism or anger is rarely repaired by more
writing. A breach opened by writing is usually susceptible to being healed
only by personal contact. The moral is, therefore, don't open the breach
with a distempered dispatch. 5. Don't let a detected error drift. Take it
up and correct it when found. 6. Don't accumulate "bad marks" against a
terminal before acting. Forget old "bad marks" when they have been
corrected. 7. A terminal has his side of the story. As the person on the
job he has more valid data than the executive. Listen and question before
you decide you're outraged. 8. The only capital an executive has is the
willingness TO WORK. Preserve it. No person can be driven to labour-as
every slave society has found out. They always lose. When a man is whipped,
that work he then does still stems from his willingness alone. Anger made
it smaller. Terminals that are confused and have gone wrong are patched up
just as an auditor patches up an ARC break. The terminal is also conscious
of his own overt acts and thoughts. The only persons an executive cannot
handle are those Who continually say or dramatize: "It can't be done".
These persons are already spoiled by bad 8c in life. No matter if the
person is the attorney or the accountant or the head sweeper, if his
response to all solutions offered is, "It can't be done" (either stated or
acted out) the executive has only two answers: order him to intensive
intensives or fire him. Short of this action, the executive has no other
course to take. Threats, penalties, scoldings, all accomplish nothing. We
have then three classes of possible personnel: 1. The willing 2. The
defiant negative 3. The wholly shiftless. To handle these we have three
classes of action only and none in between. (An authentic case of white is
white and black is black.) Class One (above): Handle them as outlined here
with understanding, intelligence, helpfulness, courage and compassion.
Class Two (above): Process only, or fire. Class Three (above): Process
only, or fire. Class two and three are non-employable. Why burden the staff
or economics of the organization with them. The Willing include the
overbearing, the meek, the swift, the slow, the efficient, the worried.
Threats and punishing regulations do not help them-only hurt the innocent
with the guilty. Tight scheduling, insistence, reason, crispness, and ARC
help them.
The Unwilling are bait only for auditors or the unemployment bureau.
Leave a post vacant rather than hire them. You'll wish you had. Don't
confuse a clash of personalities, independence and lack of subservience
with unwillingness to do. The military does this and look at it! If you
only want a staff that won't talk back, join the army-they punish people
for communicating or deserting. Some very high class bastards can do some
high class jobs. The Unwilling only do or say "can't" no matter what
solution or task is offered. Usually they don't talk. Sometimes they are
models of meekness. But like a hunting dog that won't kill chickens, they
are no good to you. If they're out of your organization or department, you
have only the willing left-so why look further in executing than being
decent. The man who doesn't appreciate it isn't with you anyway. So that
leaves only one code of conduct for an executive to follow, the one
outlined here. His personnel hat excludes the Mr. No and Miss Can't and
Master Flop. An executive needs as much discipline and anger as he lets the
Unwilling in. The first principle of an executive is to accomplish the
goals of the organization and department. He must employ the Willing and
maintain ARC. And remember that there's an R in it. A quarter of a century
of leadership in this life has taught me that the only underprivileged
posts there are, are posts of leadership. As one rises on the scale of
authority his flaws magnify and so does his power to hurt and destroy. It
would take an archangel to be a perfect executive. Despite the trying
nature of an executive post it yet must be filled-and filled with
understanding, intelligence, helpfulness, courage and compassion. When a
lack of these enters upon an organization's comm lines, the organization
sickens and is gone-just as our world at large is doing. Our staff are
willing. I believe in them and trust them. Nobody could ever do the job
we're all doing-but we're doing it. A hundred thousand years of future are
looking at us-we can only measure up by doing our jobs as best we can today-
with understanding, intelligence, helpfulness, courage and compassion-to
the greatest good of the greatest number of dynamics. It is a large order-
but the first to fill it must be our executives.
HOW TO ISSUE INSTRUCTIONS TO PERSONNEL
1. Have a definite clear-cut and correct estimate of situation. 2.
Make a precise, properly communicative statement in writing of exactly what
you want done. 3. Reissue 2. 4. Reissue 2. 5. Reissue 2. There are no other
steps. Every time you issue a direct, precise and orderly order you may
generate a confusion. It runs out as the order is repeated over and over.
The "reasons why" "the order is hard to duplicate" is the run off of a
confusion. Don't Q & A with the confusion. Just issue the order again while
maintaining good ARC.
L. RON HUBBARD
LRH:jw.rd Copyright c 1958, 1963 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 25 OCTOBER 1968
All Execs Remimeo Org Exec Course Introductory
IMPORTANT
ADMIN KNOW-HOW
When trying to get stats up you must realize that what GOT stats up
will GET stats up. Using new, unusual experiments can crash your full
intention. In new Programmes the BUGS have not been worked out. It's like a
newly designed piece of machinery. The clutch slips or the h.p. is sour.
New programmes are undertaken on a small scale as PILOT PROJECTS. If they
work out, good. Spot the bugs, streamline them and prove them. Only then is
it all right to give them out as broad orders. So it isn't good for an EC
to hand out strings of orders. Or for an executive to start a lot of new
projects. There is a thing called STANDARD ADMIN. It comes from the Policy
Letters. When we produced the wild, soaring tech stats with the Sea Org
Class VIII Auditor programme IT WAS BY PUTTING IN THE EXACT PROCESSES AND
GRADES. By going Super Standard we got 100% case gain. It is the same with
Policy. If you get an org in with Super Standard Policy-Promotion, form and
Admin-the stats SOAR.
TELEX ORDERS Instead of sending out a mad avalanche of orders on
Telex, an exec should only send the number and date of the Pol Ltr he wants
in AND THEN SHOULD RIDE THAT ONE ORDER until it is in. To choose WHAT
Policy Letter is of course the trick. One has to know something about the
Conditions of the org before sending the order. TRYING TO GET ALL POL LTRS
IN at once can also swamp an org. "Get on Policy" is a meaningless remark.
Get on such and such a Policy, if it is obviously out, is a very valuable
action.
GENERAL EXEC ACTIONS EDs are there to say WHAT policy should be
concentrated on, not to give new orders. An Executive who is wise, gets in
Policy on a gradient (little by little, building it up higher and higher,
keeping the old in while adding in the new). To understand how to do this,
one must be able to conceive of basic outnesses. It requires real genius to
discover how gross and how basic an outness can be. An Exec pounds away
with a high level policy on how to do accounting. Is his face red when he
finds the reason for the muddle is that there isn't anyone in the
division!!! Once we almost "did our nut" trying to find what outness had
unmocked an org. All sorts of involved conclusions were reached. All manner
of orders given without any improvement. And then "murder outed". EVERY
registrar in the org had been removed and no new ones appointed. The public
couldn't find anyone to sign them up. I once sent a Continent into Power
simply by discovering that it had not appointed people to the posts of Exec
Sec in any org! How "out" can it get? As soon as Exec Secs were appointed,
the whole Continent went into Power. I once read an ED which (a) removed
all executives but one and then (b) gave 20 complex orders "to be done at
once". The one remaining personnel could not have executed any of them. I
at once cancelled ALL EDs not issued by myself and shortly up went the
stats. Wondering why no mail is ever mailed does not call for a complex
policy. It calls for a policy about the form of the org, how it must have
Exec Sees, Divisional Sees. For there to be no mail going out can only mean
there's nobody on post! A Divisional Sec trying to get in his division's
policy must look first for GROSS outnesses. They are never small. And then
he must get them in by Policy. Then they'll stay in. There IS a Standard
Admin. It deals in simplicities. People are on post. Particles flow.
Promotion is done. Tech is delivered. The org board is up and is followed.
If policy isn't in at that level of largeness, it will never go in on
higher points. Knowing an org inside out is also knowing who to tell to do
what and what policy to get in when. It's like knowing how to drive a car.
It won't go if you don't know where the ignition switch is located. Policy
outnesses occur and unusual ideas are put forth only by those who don't
know what is usual in the first place. Like Standard Tech, in Standard
Policy the results come from getting in the basics and doing them well.
L. RON HUBBARD Founder
LRH:jp.ei.rd Copyright c 1968 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 7 MARCH 1969
Remimeo
ORGANISATION
It may be that in studying policies and org boards or trying to get
something going, the basic of organisation may be missing. Organisation is
the sub-division of actions and duties into specialised functions. One can
organise a series of actions to be done by himself or herself. This would
consist of seeing what has to be done, doing what one can do first and then
the remainder as a feasible series of events, all to accomplish a final
completion of a cycle of action which forwards one's assigned or postulated
purposes. A group is organised so as to permit flows and accomplish
specialised actions which are completed in themselves and from which small
actions or completions, the group purpose, assigned or specialised, is
forwarded or accomplished. There is a difference between directing and
doing which some people have trouble separating apart. A person in charge
of an activity is sometimes found deficient in organisational understanding
and so tries to do all the actions himself. This if done to excess
effectively can break up a group and render it useless since all members
but one have no function, having been robbed by this one-man monopoly on
action. True, an active and competent person can do things better. But he
can really never do more than he can do. Whereas a well organised group,
each with specialised functions, coordinated by the in-charge, can
accomplish many times the work only one can do. Because it is organised
makes a group harder to defeat than the individual. A competent individual
who has been let down too often by groups tends to take it all on himself
rather than whip the group into shape and get things organised. The correct
action when faced by urgent necessity arising from incompetence of a group
or other causes, is to 1. Handle it 2. Organise the group to handle such
things and do their jobs. One can get stuck on I and if he or she does,
then will have trouble and overwork from there on out. Because he or she
omits also doing 2.
________________
The major failure of any group is to fail to organise. Workers of the
world may arise but if they are not quickly organised before or after the
fact, they will promptly be put back down! The major cause of not
organising is just not understanding what is meant by it. For example, an
executive is told he is in charge of seeing that the X project is done. He
doesn't know much about it. He has two men who do know. The incorrect
action is to try to do the X project himself or issue a lot of unreal
orders about it. The correct action is to call up the man who does know,
give him the other as an assistant and tell them to get on with it. Then,
without interfering, the executive who received the order should get more
knowledgeable about the X project so he can be sure it is done, while still
letting the designated people get on with it. This comprehension of
organisation is as simple as this-put somebody on the job and let him get
on with it. On a project, make a survey of all the things there are to do,
group types of actions into simple posts, assign people to them, provide
the comm lines, materiel and liaison and let the group get on with it. Any
post, no matter how junior, has to be organised. Anyone in charge of people
has to be able to organise functions and work. Any executive has to know
his target policies and be able to write them up, particularly the primary
targets. Failing that, one gets very little done and is badly overworked.
And the rest of the group is wasted. So, high or low, get a grip on this
thing called organisation. It's gruesomely simple. Honest.
L. RON HUBBARD Founder
LRH:nt.ei.rd Copyright c 1969 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 19 DECEMBER 1969
Remimeo Executive Secretary Hats Executive Hats
Cancellation of HCO PL 19 July 1963 and London Sec Ed May 4, 1959
EXECUTIVE DUTIES
(The cancelled PL and Sec Ed above stated that an Executive "got
people to get the work done." This principle has been found to result in
some Executives believing they were not supposed to work. It is an old
management definition. Much more experience on the subject in Sen orgs and
the Sea Org show the following to be more fundamental and more workable.)
An Executive handles the whole area while he gets people to help. An
Executive in charge of an org would "single-hand" (handle it all) while
getting others to handle their jobs in turn. This gives a practical and
workable approximation of what top stat executives actually do do. The
executive who sits back and waits for others to act when a situation is
grave can crash an entire activity. Essentially an Executive is a working
individual who can competently handle any post or machine or plan under
him. He is a training officer as well. He designates who is to do what and
sees that a training action is done by himself or others to be sure the
post will be competently held. An executive who accepts the idea that if a
person has a school degree in "waffing Wogglies" or sewing on buttons he
can at once be trusted to waff wogglies or sew buttons is taking a
personnel by recommendation, not by his experience with the personnel whose
work-organization potential has never been tested under that executive. A
camouflaged hole (undetected neglect area) may very well develop in such a
circumstance, which can suddenly confront the executive with a time
consuming disaster. Thus an executive accepts help conditionally until it
is demonstrated to be help, and meanwhile does not relax his control of a
sector below him until he is sure it is functioning. In this way an
executive is one who does and backs off spots continually. He could be said
to always be doing himself out of a job by getting the job competently
done. However, in actual practice, as post personnel does shift, he has to
be prepared at any time to wade back in and put it right. The Supreme Test
of an Executive (as in the HCOB Supreme Test of a Thetan) is to MAKE THINGS
GO RIGHT. To the degree he can maintain his observation, communicate and
get supervision done (see HCO PL on the Key Ingredients) he can achieve
production or service and satisfy users. As observation is often faulty,
especially over long distances, as Communication is not always received or
studied and as supervision is often absent, the Executive must develop a
sensitivity to indicators of outnesses and systems to correct them. A very
good Executive knows how to "play the org board" under him. He has to know
every function in it. He has to know who to call on to do what or he
disorganizes things badly. An Executive also has to know neighboring org
board arrangements in the same org, the org board of allies and of enemies.
An Executive has to know what users need and want and furnish it. When
normal and routine posts fail under him, the Executive is of course forced
into Non Existence as an executive, has to find what is needed and wanted
and produce it. He applies the whole Non Existence formula to the
situation. Only if he does not handle fully once he does see an outness
does an Executive go into Liability. An Executive deals with the frailty of
human variations and distractions. When these engulf his area and he is
confronted with the fruits of alteration and non-compliance, of posts not
held and duties suddenly found left undone, it is up to the Executive to
get them done any way he can. Having handled he applies the Danger formula
(or lower as it appears) to the neglected area. An Executive has to be
somebody who cares about his job and wants to get things done. If he only
wishes the title for status he is of course heading himself and his area
for disaster and it could be said that such an executive, not meaning to do
the job but only wanting the title, is in Doubt or lower on the third
dynamic. The Executive thinks of the area and organization first and
repairs. Then he thinks of the individual and straightens him out. An
Executive who is worker-oriented winds up hurting all the workers. The
workers depend on the organization. When that is gone they have nothing. An
organization cannot have more taken out of it than is being put into it.
Efforts to bleed an organization of more blood than it has destroy it. The
preservation of his organization is a first consideration of an Executive.
In an Executive's hands an organization or one of its areas must be
"VIABLE." That is, it must be capable of supporting itself and thus staying
alive. When his area is parasitic, dependent on others outside it, without
producing more than it consumes, the area and its workers are at severe
risk and in the natural course of events will be dispensed with, if not at
once, eventually. Thus an Executive is someone whose own sweat and energy
keeps an organization or an area of it functioning. In this he earns and
uses help and they in turn take over executive roles in their subordinate
areas and keep them alive and producing. An Executive is in the business of
SURVIVAL of his area and its people and providing with service or
production an abundance which makes the area, his own services and that of
his subordinates valuable. If an Executive so functions his own survival
and increase is guaranteed even by natural law. If an Executive functions
for other reasons it is certain the ground will vanish from under him
eventually again by natural law. An Executive is in fact a worker who can
do all and any of the work in the area he supervises and who can note and
work rapidly to repair any outnesses observed in the functioning of those
actions in his charge. The best liked executive who is most valued by his
workers as someone they need is an executive who functions as described
above. One who seeks to survive on favours given and does not otherwise
measure up is not in fact regarded highly by anyone. Whatever ideology one
finds himself in, the above still applies. The way to the top may well be
marrying the boss's daughter, but the way to stay there still requires the
elements described herein. As bosses' daughters are few, a sounder way is
to learn all the jobs well and study this policy and just become an
Executive.
L. RON HUBBARD Founder
LRH:nt.rd Copyright c 1969 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
[Cancelled by HCO P/L 28 July 1971, Admin Know-How No. 26, in the
Executive Division Volume.] HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 29 MARCH 1965 Issue II
Gen Non-Remimeo
ADMINISTRATION FLOWS AND EXPANSION THE F A S T F L O W SYSTEM
We have introduced many new principles in administration in recent
policy letters. Here is one which if left out would cause mystery. This is
the principle of traffic flows we now use. It is called the FAST FLOW
SYSTEM OF MANAGEMENT. A being controlling a traffic or activity flow should
let the flow run until it is to be reinforced or indicates a turbulence
will occur and only then inspects the part of the flow that is to be
reinforced or is becoming enturbulated and inspects and acts on only that
one flow. This principle would operate on a committee of 3 in this fashion:
the committee does not act as a body. Each member acts individually in
three spheres of influence (three types of flow). There is no committee
(collective) action until one of the three members wants concurrence from
the other two on greatly reinforcing a flow or until the other two, by
observation, see the third is going adrift. Only in these cases does the
committee act as a Committee. In other words all 3 members go about their
work independently until there is a change in one of their three spheres
and then they act. Otherwise the flows of orders and actions are
independent. Not doing it like this is why Committees have gotten the
reputation of being unable and a waste of time. To do this one, of course,
needs another principle: that of Indicators. An Indicator is something that
signals an approaching change rather than finding the change is already
present and confirmed. We get this from auditing. An auditor audits so long
as things go evenly. He knows when they will begin to deteriorate or change
by an Indicator. He acts on seeing the indicator. He doesn't wait until the
collapse or total change of the pc occurs and then look it over and act.
The pc could be run into the ground or a good process that was bettering
the case could be neglected if an auditor could not PREDICT from indicators
how it was going before it was gone. In supervising a number of sections or
departments, it would work this way: The person in charge does not examine
every action or decision on the lines. If all despatches of all the
activities went through his or her one pair of hands the volume would be
too great and would jam. The executive's "plate" would be too full and this
would halt any expansion of the activities as the executive would feel
overworked, yet in actual fact would be getting nothing much done. The
flows which needed watching would be buried in a huge volume of flows that
did not need watching. Instead, the principle of flows tells us that the
executive should have statistical INDICATORS such as OIC charts on every
part of the activity each week and should act only on the basis of the
charts' behaviors. If a chart went down the Executive would not wait for
that area to collapse before inspecting it. At a dip point the executive
should go over all the plans and traffic and despatches of the area dipping
down and unearth the real reason why it did dip. If the matter needs minor
remedy, it should be corrected. If then the graph still dipped down, the
executive would not only be advised of it by the OIC Indicators but would
know, having inspected earlier, what had to be done on a more drastic scale
to get the graph going up again. The OIC system must be used and all data
plotted and circulated to the Executives in an org before this system will
work. If the OIC system is put into effect fully the executive can then
(and only then) let go the cornm lines and let the traffic flow. He then
only needs to: 1. Keep alert for and correct Dev-T (off-line, off-policy,
off-origin and non-compliance); 2. Keep an eye on the weekly OIC charts; 3.
Find from OIC the upward trends and inspect and find out what's working so
well it can be reported; 4. Be alert to any down dip and inspect the
activity itself and correct the matter; and 5. Spend most of his time
getting his own job done (since executives do have jobs besides
supervision). The one thing he mustn't do is "get reasonable" about dips or
zooms and not act to really check the decline or to reinforce the rise: (a)
Thinking one does know when he has not gotten it inspected closely; (b) Not
believing the graph and Indicators; and (c) Not acting, are the fatal
errors. Doing 1 to 5 tells us who's an executive and doing (a), (b) and (c)
tells us who shouldn't be an executive. If this system is in effect the org
can't help but boom. We will call this the FAST FLOW SYSTEM OF MANAGEMENT.
It is a very precise art. It's like auditing. One predicts the slumps and
reinforces the tendency to boom. It can't miss. If it's done completely.
LRH:ml.rd L. RON HUBBARD Copyright c 1965 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS
RESERVED [LRH NOTE: Study this. Shows why of OIC.]
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 6 FEBRUARY 1968 Remimeo ORGANIZATION - THE FLAW I
looked for a long time for any flaw in the idea of organization. It does
have a flaw. The basic flaw in organization is INSPECTION BEFORE THE FACT.
That means inspection before anything bad has happened. Violations are so
harmful they destroyed every great civilization-the Roman, the British, the
lot. For every flow is slowed or stopped. The prosperity of any
organization is directly proportional to the speed of its particles-goods,
people, papers. World trade, world shipping, world prosperity is dying only
because of the cumulative effect of inspection before the fact. Passports,
customs, safety regulations, general government interference before
anything bad has occurred add up to a SUPPRESSIVE SOCIETY and therefore,
soon enough, a dead one. Penalty after the fact has occurred disciplines
the criminals and does not pull down the majority to criminal level.
Scientology organizations must never lose sight of the reason organizations
have decayed.
LRH:adv.rd L. RON HUBBARD Copyright c 1968 Founder by L. Ron Hubbard
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 23 APRIL AD 15
ALL DIVISIONS
Remimeo All Staff Hats Sthil Staff Exec Hats
Use: Executives should keep a stack of these 23 Apr AD 15 Pol Ltrs
near their desk and staple one to every despatch or report received which
violates it. Circle para violated and return to staff member. (Changes HCO
Pol Ltr on CSW slightly in that conclusions or solutions are no longer
acceptable from a junior to a senior, only data.)
PROBLEMS
The most senior organizational policies there are follow: 1. NEVER
solve the problem any junior presents to you. NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER NEVER
NEVER. 2. ALWAYS investigate for the true cause of the trouble. ALWAYS
ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS ALWAYS. 3. SOLVE only the problem you find
after very careful investigation of the whole matter and after you have
examined all possible causes of the problem. 4. NEVER solve a problem that
has already been solved in general policy. 5. IF someone thinks the policy
is wrong or is itself the source of the problem then (a) he or she must be
made to fully read the policy (b) demonstrate what it is supposed to solve
(c) look over the problem he or she thinks the policy is wrong on to find
the actual causes of the problem he or she is trying to solve.
_________________ The primary aberration in situations that are being
mishandled is: 6. THE PERSON IS UNABLE TO RECOGNIZE SOURCE.
_________________ Example: A person A sees another B drop a wall mirror and
break it. A puts in a purchase order specifying thicker glass. B next day
drops a chair down steps and A puts in a PO for new stair carpeting. B a
week later runs a car into a wall and A proposes a different design for the
wall. If this kept on and B was never singled out by A or A's seniors, then
dozens of unusual solutions are entered into the org, not just POs but
policy changes as well! Why? A is "below source" and doesn't recognize the
causes of his problems. Therefore his solutions are alter-is of existing
situations and result in alter-is of tech, policy and orders. Soon the area
around A is in a complete confusion. What about B? He probably generalizes
with "they said" "everybody knows" etc on entheta and so remains
"invisible" behind his generalities. B can be spotted best by damage
reports whenever damage occurs. As they are filed as a statistic in B's
file, it soon becomes a visible datum. The cause of confusion in A's area
is not A. It is A's inability to perceive causes. Thus any system which
isolates actual causes disenturbulates a group and makes unusual solutions
unnecessary and only then can policy go in. _________________ Therefore we
get some other very senior org policies: 7. NEVER accept a conclusion from
a junior. NEVER. 8. ALWAYS demand facts of a junior. Always. 9. NEVER take
a generality from a junior. 10. ALWAYS challenge any conclusion a junior
offers. 11. NEVER act on a junior's data until you have fully investigated
the situation. 12. ALWAYS investigate until you find the basic policy
violation that started the problem in the first place.
TECHNICAL 13. Making Scientology work on pcs and students is the ONLY
way you can salvage org situations. 14. If Scientology is not applied
exactly per HCOBs and tapes technical will "go out" and within a few months
the area will be spinning with unusual solutions. 15. The fastest way for a
technical executive to become overworked is to violate the policies in this
policy letter. 16. The fastest way for a technical executive to get into
trouble and a mess is to accept an auditor's conclusions and propose a
solution. Example: An instructor says, "Process ROO doesn't work on certain
cases. When these cases come on course could I please order them to Review
auditing?" Serious blunder by a senior, "Yes." Why? Because the instructor
isn't capable of spotting an ARC Broken student-can't confront ARC Breaks.
Therefore quite often the instructor lets ROO be run on an ARC Broken
student. The correct technical executive action, and the ONLY correct one
on receiving such a report, is to promptly personally investigate.
Investigation even of the students' case folders would disclose that the
instructor ignores ARC Breaks from comm cycle blunders by new student
auditors, that the instructor won't give ARC Break assessments (who else
could give one on a Zero Level course?) but sometimes runs R6 EW on the
students under the guise of "an assist for a misunderstood word". I think
that's enough trouble to get the instructor's senior into a hurricane of
trouble if only from blown students and no new enrolments! (This is an
actual example. The final result was a Comm Ev for the technical executive
and the instructor, the first for proposing and alter-ising policy and
technology, the second for forcing auditing [rather than doing assessments]
on Zero Level students. The Comm Ev had to be ordered at the request of
their tech senior because neither would accept orders to remedy the above
conditions but just kept on fouling up students.)
NON COMPLIANCE 18. If you think for one moment that a staff member who
won't or can't follow clear, definite policy, will follow your orders
either, you dream. 19. The first thing you know about an off-policy type
personnel is that none of your instructions are being carried out either,
usual or unusual. 20. Look, if they can't apply vividly clear policy, they
sure can't apply a brief order.
SUMMARY 21. You can conclude that where you have a personnel who
cannot perceive the causes of things you will have a continual spinning
mess. None of the problems presented for solution are the actual problems
that exist. In A and B above, the problem presented was "How to get more
durable things." This could not be solved because it was the wrong problem
and didn't exist. The right problem was "How to get B to stop breaking
everything in sight." A senior, not seeing B at all (not being around B),
accepting a problem and a conclusion from a junior (A) soon is involved in
endless discussions over "How to get more durable things." This never
solves. Because it wasn't the problem. Further, any order the senior gives
A is also never put into effect without wild alter-is. Why? A, unable to
see sources, can't see the senior as a source either and really takes his
orders from anyone who comes along! Students, pcs, the garbage man. 22. The
basic problem of management then is the problem of cause blindness. People
in the org who cannot see cause cannot solve problems, for to solve a
problem one must see what is causing it! 23. And the solution to all this
lies in the policies in this policy letter. 24. And auditing people up to
an ability to perceive and perceive the causes of things is the primary
solution to all problems. 25. Until you get them there you use any
mechanism necessary to follow orders. Only in that way will they ever make
it. 26. When tech goes out, when HCOBs aren't followed or tapes known and
used exactly, the Road Out is blocked. 27. Nobody has any right to a bank.
28. For when they are permitted such a right they block the road for the
rest. 29. The only person you could completely trust is a Clear. And unless
the clear is also trained in Scientology tech and admin also you could
never accept his vote on org matters. That's the truth. And that's why
we're going to make it all the way. 30. If we're determined we will make
it, we will make it.
L. RON HUBBARD
LRH:ml.rd Copyright c 1965 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
(Note: By Organizational Policy is meant that policy which makes the
organization into an organization and keeps its flows fast and its design
uncomplicated. In absence of these policies the design becomes altered and
flows cease and the org dies.) [Note: The mimeo issue of this Policy Letter
and the First Edition of Volume 0 skipped the number 6 in the numerical
sequence. The text above and the earlier texts are identical; only the
numbering has been altered to include the skipped 6.] HUBBARD
COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF I MAY 1965 Issue II
Remimeo Exec Hats Comm Hats D Insp & Rpts Hats
ORDER BOARD AND TIME MACHINE
Executives must have and use an "Order Board". In Scientology if it is
not written it is not true. That's a major policy. It applies to all. Every
order an Executive issues must be in writing. He does this on a Clip Board.
There is a sheaf of paper on it of his Division's colour. It has a sheet of
pencil carbon and a ball-point slipped through the top of the clip. It can
have a hook on the back to slip on a belt for persons walking about. This
is the Order Board. Even when one gives a verbal order it is also written
down. The executive keeps no copies of his orders. This is done by the
Department of Inspection and Reports. The original is handed to the person
being ordered. The other is sent to the Inspection section of the
Department of Inspection and Reports. If one is away from his Comm station,
the carbons are left on the Order Board until one returns, when the copies
are all sent to Inspection.
COMMUNICATOR ACTION The carbon of an order is sent to Inspection
because it is obviously a carbon copy and an order. It is not otherwise
designated. An original sent through the Comm Lines is obviously an
original order as it is not a carbon. It is simply delivered to the
addressee's basket.
JUNIOR'S ACTION The person receiving the order does it, says he has
(or couldn't) on the original order he received and sends it TO INSPECTION.
However even if he sends it to his issuing superior the Communicator sends
it to Inspection only.
INSPECTION ACTION Inspection has a Time Machine. This is a series of
baskets advanced one basket every morning. A carbon of an order is placed
in today's basket. When the original comes in, the carbon is dug out of the
basket (by date and colour flash) and original and carbon are clipped
together and routed to the issuing executive. Orders not complied with in
one week of course fall off the Time Machine by appearing in the basket
being emptied today. (It was filled one week ago and advanced once each
day.)
A copy is made of the order and it is sent to Ethics for filing in the
staff member's Ethics folder and counts as a report against the staff
member. The carbon is returned to issuing Executive to show his order has
not been complied with, so that he can handle the situation. No report from
the Executive is required in this instance as a copy is already in Ethics.
The Executive should investigate or ask Ethics to do so if the matter is of
considerable importance. If an original is returned to Inspection which has
no carbon, it is copied and held and the copy is sent to the Executive with
a "Sir, there is a lost carbon of your order. Did you fail to turn one in?"
This disciplines a forgetful executive. When Inspection receives the answer
it attaches the original to it and sends it back to the Executive.
VERBAL ORDER A junior may report a verbal order to Ethics as it places
his statistics and job in danger by leaving it open to have it said the
order was otherwise.
PROJECT ORDER If something requires more than two weeks to do it is a
project and cannot be ordered without clearance from the Office of LRH
Design and Planning Authority section. If a project has been okayed it has
a number and its number must be put on the order as Project Number - .
Inspections file projects in their own files. This is also Time Machined by
one month's emptying of a file drawer or one year's emptying of a file
drawer. Projects run only for one month or one year and must be routinely
inspected by Inspections which then reports to the Office of LRH with any
progress or lack of it.
URGENT ORDERS Orders marked Urgent by an Executive are entered into a
one day time machine and handled in one day as described above for one
week.
L. RON HUBBARD
LRH:mh.rd Copyright c 1965 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
[Added to by HCO P/L 19 February 1972, Order Board and Time Machine
Addendum, in the 1972 Year Book.] HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 30 APRIL 1969
(Reissued from Flag Order No. 407 of January 23, 1969, same title)
Remimeo
ORDERS AND RESPONSIBILITY
Orders occur where responsibility has failed. Non-Compliance only
occurs when orders have had to be issued. False reports only occur where
ignorance of data or avoidance of orders occurs. And the down spiral begins
when responsibility has failed. I don't think I need overrun this by
drawing further pictures.
L. RON HUBBARD Commodore
LRH:lw.ei.rd Copyright c 1969 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 15 DECEMBER 1969 Issue II
Remimeo All Staff
URGENT
ORDERS, QUERY OF
It occasionally happens that an order is issued or a policy is
enforced or is found to exist which if put into full effect in a certain
area would result in loss or destruction. Someone told to man up, for
instance, all Admin departments, sees that this would upset the Tech-Admin
ratio. Instead of putting the order into effect he should query the order
with A. The name of the issuer and the exact order. B. The reason it would
result in loss or destruction if put into effect. C. A recommendation
resolving the problem the order sought to solve. Non-Compliance as a method
of avoiding a destructive order is very risky. It is far, far better, in
writing, to make the above submission. Going ahead and putting the order
into effect even though it means loss and destruction without advising
anyone is itself very destructive. Sometimes a policy is interpreted
incorrectly so that if one put it into effect fully as interpreted, loss
and destruction would result. An instance of this was a type of course
omitted from a policy letter. Someone did not query but instead closed the
course and refunded thousands in advance payments. This was a
misinterpretation of the policy which was only discussing course levels.
The correct action of one and all would have been to have queried. Another
instance was an order that cancelled out and fired the personnel of a
letter registrar because a fixed pay rate was being paid. The org followed
the order and promptly went into debt as this was the only typist available
and her dismissal was destructive of all income. Half a dozen people at
least should have queried the order before executing. A policy written for
an affluent large org is pushed on a tiny org. It executes even though it
doesn't seem correct. The result is destructive. The very meaning of policy
can be shifted by re-interpretation. When this is done and is seen to be
destructive anyone following the re-interpretation is just as guilty as the
mis-interpreter. The correct action is query. Even "You're fired" can be an
incorrect order and can be queried if done as above. "Your Class VIII is
appointed HCO ES Canada." Great. But you know you've only got one VIII. To
permit the order to be carried out is destructive. An order placing your
best auditors into Admin leaving Tech crippled should have the living
daylights queried out of it even by the janitor. IT DOES NOT RELIEVE ONE OF
RESPONSIBILITY WHEN ONE EXECUTES A DESTRUCTIVE ORDER. The one who follows
it is in fact far more guilty than the issuer since the one following it is
right there, able to OBSERVE whereas the issuer may not be. The Query
should go to the issuer formed as ABC above. If it is still insisted upon
and still is destructive send it and all particulars to the nearest Sea Org
unit. Label it DESTRUCTIVE ORDER and ask for help in handling. Refuse
meanwhile to put it into effect. NO ONE CAN BE COMM EVED FOR QUERYING AN
ORDER IN PROPER FORM. Using this Policy to avoid routine actions plainly
not resulting in loss or destruction WHICH NOT DONE do result in loss or
destruction can result in an investigation and the one who refused the
order can be held at fault for any resulting destruction. This policy
mainly applies to new, non-routine orders or attempted changes. Placing an
org or person in an incorrect condition comes under this policy.
L. RON HUBBARD Founder
LRH:rs.eg.rd Copyright c 1969 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 19 JULY 1965
Remimeo
All Divisions
POLICY, HOW TO HANDLE PEOPLE WHO QUOTE POLICY TO SHOW YOU THEY CANT
FOLLOW IT
Some orgs will find that certain personnel will use policy to stop
action. When these just don't want to do their job, although it's easily
understood in Policy Letters, they tell you certain policies are wrong or
can't be followed. The best and only effective way to handle this is to
say: "Since you are an expert on policy, permit me to ask you a few
questions." Take up a Pol Ltr applying to their post and start doing a hat
check on it. Since such a person is using policy to stop action and show
policy wrong, a rebuttal such as the above will adequately discourage the
practice. If people won't work, they throw out lines and find ways to use
policy to discuss it. Policy is valuable. But ALL policy exists solely to
get the job done and establish points of agreement that permit flows of
traffic. When traffic doesn't flow and somebody says, "Policy so and so
prevents it," then Hat Check at once and you'll be amazed to find they
don't even know enough of it to disagree with it. Disagreement with policy
is disagreement with getting the job done. And is always accompanied by
total lack of data on the policy being quoted. It's a sure cure.
L. RON HUBBARD
LRH:ml.rd Copyright c 1965 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 4 NOVEMBER 1969 Issue II Remimeo All Hais Applies
to all SO Units and Sen Orgs and Groups Franchise FSMs LRH Comm Hat
COMPLIANCE vs DISCUSSION Effecting compliance to LRH orders can often
require liaison with another post or posts on the Org Board to co -
ordinate the correct actions called for by the order. Speed of action often
necessitates that such liaison be conducted verbally. They should be brief
and to the point whether verbal or written. There is no need to extend
discussion beyond the point of agreement and understanding of others' or
another's actions on the same order and of how they affect one's own
actions and priorities. The order is what it is. If it is difficult to
reach agreement and understanding you can be quite sure that something in
the LRH order (OR in an earlier LRH order in the same area or to the
individual now having difficulty) has been not received, not understood, or
has been alter-ised. This fact must be recognised early before the
situation gets out of hand. The major indicators are (a) nothing concrete
can be arranged to be done after a certain point, (b) and discussion goes
around and around indefinitely, (c) somebody says, "Well, because of this
important significance over here, we have to do something else..." or words
to that effect, which can be very very convincing. They can occur between
executives and executives, between executives and juniors, between juniors
and juniors. The ONLY action that will restore order into the confusion is
the re-establishment of the STABLE DATUM already placed into the time and
place-the exact LRH order or statement-which will allow form and event to
occur. If the parties concerned cannot successfully re-establish the exact
LRH order as the Stable Datum on which to agree by simply looking at it
again, then they must go to their nearest LRH Communicator who will get the
LRH origination correctly duplicated either by use of duplication drills or
by request for clarification if there is a genuine query. For any
Scientologist to knowingly permit a confusion on or misduplication of an
LRH order, programme or directive to persist without communicating about it
to the LRH Comm is a serious Ethics offense against the group and Mankind
and should be handled as such where poor performance, emergency or
catastrophe results therefrom. The number of staff members and field
members who take care to exactly duplicate and carry out Ron's intentions
is very large and they are each highly appreciated. There is no reason why
this shouldn't include all of us. You are invited to see that it does
include all of us. The LRH Comms and Ethics Officers particularly.
Ken Urquhart LRH:KU:ldm.ei.rd CS-7 Copyright c 1969 for by L. Ron
Hubbard L. RON HUBBARD ALL RIGHTS RESERVED Founder HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS
OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 3 NOVEMBER 1966 Remimeo ADMINISTRATIVE KNOW-HOW
LEADERSHIP Leadership is one of the most misunderstood subjects in Man's
dictionary. But it is based almost solely on the ability to give and
enforce orders. An order or directive is necessary to bring about
coordination of function and activity without which there could be
disagreement and confusion. In an organisation there is more than one
person functioning. Being of comparable rank and having different purposes
(hats) they can come into conflict and disagreement in the absence of a
plan or order or directive. So, without orders, plans, programmes, one does
not have an organisation. One has a group of individuals. We see in earlier
policy letters that a group composed only of individuals cannot expand and
will remain small. Oddly enough, such a group will also remain unhappy. It
will have a low affinity with the public and each other and if you know the
Affinity-Reality-Communication triangle, you will realise that all three
points drop if one does. Agreement being the basis of Reality, you will
find a group of individuals will disagree with each other and have a low
Reality on what they are doing or what to propose and even what to do. Most
people confuse a "taut ship" with a harshly led ship. Actually harshness
has nothing to do with it. The right word is positiveness. If a group is
led by someone whose programmes and orders are very positive, then the
group has a chance of going into agreement with one another and so their
Affinity improves and so does their Communication and Reality. So if one
issues no orders, q group will remain a group of individuals, out of
agreement with each other, will do little and will remain small or at least
nonexpanding. Bill, of equal rank to Joe, cannot give an order to Joe nor
vice versa. Thus no orders exist between them. Occasional agreements do
occur but as their jobs are different, they rather tend to disagree on what
is important. A person with a senior standing to both Bill and Joe can give
the two an order and this becomes the basis of an agreement. The order
doesn't even have to be liked by Bill and Joe. If they follow it, they thus
"agree" to it and being in agreement on this they get Reality and
Communication on it as well. Even poorly thought out orders angrily given,
if issued and enforced, are better for a group than no orders at all. But
such orders are the low end of the scale. Positive, enforced orders, given
with no misemotion and toward visible accomplishment are the need of a
group if it is to prosper and expand. The group is full of "good fellows".
This does not give it success. The group is full of plans. These do not
give it success. What it needs are positive orders leading to a known
accomplishment. Many obstacles can exist to that accomplishment but the
group will function. We call it "leadership" and other nebulous things,
this ability to handle a group, make it prosper and expand. All leadership
is, in the final analysis, is giving the orders to implement the programme
and seeing that they are followed. One can build this up higher by
obtaining general agreement on the how, why and what of programmes. But to
maintain it there have to be orders and directives and acceptance or
enforcement thereof-else the group will fall apart, sooner or later.
Positive orders and directions on positive programmes inevitably cause
expansion. Being wise or a good fellow or being liked, does not accomplish
the expansion. People in the group may be cheerful-but are they going
anywhere as a group? So the whole thing boils down to: Positive directions
and their acceptance or enforcement on known programmes bring about
prosperity and expansion. No or weak orders bring about stagnation and
collapse. The ideal is to have programmes with which the whole group or a
majority agrees fully. Then to forward these with positive orders and
obtain compliance by acceptance or enforcement. But regardless of the
enthusiasm for a programme, it will eventually fail if there is no person
or governing body there to issue and enforce orders to carry on the
programme. Thus we have the indicators of a very bad executive whose group
will disintegrate and fail no matter how cheerful they are with the
executive. Bad leaders: 1. Issue no or weak orders, 2. Do not obtain or
enforce compliance. Bad leadership isn't "grouchy" or "sadistic" or the
many other things man advertises it to be. It is simply a leadership that
gives no or weak orders and does not enforce compliance. Good leadership:
1. Works on not unpopular programmes 2. Issues positive orders and 3.
Obtains or enforces compliance. These facts are as true of a governing body
as they are of an individual. A typical example of a bad governing body, at
the present stage of its formation at least, is the United Nations. It has
great ideas about how better Man should be perhaps, but 1. It issues a
confused babble of orders when it issues any and 2. It issues orders for
which it can obtain little or no compliance. Note that it is also
insolvent, at war within itself and that it has not made a dent in its
prime programme, the prevention of war. However these things come about,
they are nevertheless true. It is a very poor governing body and far more
likely to vanish than expand. You can count completely on the fact that an
executive or a governing body that does not adhere to not unpopular
programmes, that does not issue positive orders and does not obtain or
enforce compliance will have down statistics. And you can be sure that an
executive or governing body that formulates or adheres to not unpopular
programmes, that issues positive orders and that obtains or vigorously
enforces compliance will have up statistics. Wisdom? Popularity? These
unfortunately have little or nothing to do with it. The way to have up
statistics, a prosperous and happy group is far more simple than complex
Man has ever realized.
LRH: jp. rd L. RON HUBBARD Copyright c 1966 Founder by L. Ron Hubbard
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 4 DECEMBER 1966
Remimeo
ADMIN KNOW-HOW EXPANSION THEORY OF POLICY
It is not very hard to grasp the basic principle underlying all policy
letters and organisation. It is an empirical (observed and proven by
observation) fact that nothing remains exactly the same forever. This
condition is foreign to this universe. Things grow or they lessen. They
cannot apparently maintain the same equilibrium or stability. Thus things
either expand or they contract. They do not remain level in this universe.
Further when something seeks to remain level and unchanged it contracts.
Thus we have three actions and only three. First is expansion, second is
the effort to remain level or unchanged and third is contraction or
lessening. As nothing in this universe can remain exactly the same, then
the second action (level) above will become the third action (lessen) if
undisturbed or not acted on by an outside force. Thus actions two and three
above (level and lessen) are similar in potential and both will lessen.
This leaves expansion as the only positive action which tends to guarantee
survival. The point of assumption in all policy letters is that we intend
to survive and intend so on all dynamics. To survive, then, one must expand
as the only safe condition of operation. If one remains level one tends to
contract. If one contracts one's chances of survival diminish. Therefore
there is only one chance left and that, for an organisation, is expansion.
PRODUCT To expand any company needs a demanded product and will and skill
to produce and deliver it. It can be a service or an item. If a company has
a demanded product and will and skill to produce and deliver it, it must
organise to expand. If it does it will survive. If it organises to stay
level or seeks to grow smaller it will perish. This is easily observed in
nations. Whenever one seeks to remain the same or to lessen itself it
usually perishes. It need not seek only to expand its borders. It can also
expand its influence and service. Indeed, the effort to expand borders in a
nation without increasing a demand for its influence and products is a
primary cause of war. If a nation expanded the demand for its influence and
products it would expand without war. When a nation seeks to merely expand
by force of arms and does not expand the demand for its products one gets a
dark age or at least a social catastrophe. Rome, early on, was in great
demand for its social technology and manufacturing skill and only a cruel
streak in her made her wage war to expand. Britain, for instance, was ready
to welcome Roman baskets and pottery and art and had been demanding them
for nearly a century when Caesar's vicious ambitions actually wrecked the
smooth progress of Rome by enforced expansion by arms in excess of the
demand for Roman products. This was one Roman product nobody wanted-Caesar
and his legions. Psychiatry's product of further insanity was not in demand
by the people but by the state which sought to crush people or at least
hold them down. So psychiatry expanded by government regulation not by
popular demand and so at this writing stands in danger of complete
extinction, for its influence depends utterly on "expanding" into the
legislatures and government treasuries and no expansion whatever of any
demand from the public and no product except slaughter. The Roman Catholic
Church once had a healing product, by actual treatment and by relics and
miracles and was in great demand by the public and eventually even the
barbarians. But she began to fight progress in science and knowledge and
her product turned into exported ignorance backed by autos-da-fe (burning
heretics) and thus ceased to expand and today is rapidly shrinking.
Buddhism, earlier than that, expanded continuously as it never sought new
extension of territory other than that of learning. Buddhism failed in
India alone because its monks became licentious, ceased to deliver true
teachings and were swept up, most likely, in India alone, by the Muslim
conquest of that unhappy country sometime around the seventh century.
Britain of the 20th Century actively sought to contract her empire and did
so to the tune of internal economic catastrophe.
SINGLE PRINCIPLE
Thus it should be obvious that contraction leads to death and
expansion to life providing that one maintains a demand for itself and the
will and skill to produce and deliver a product. If as ours is, the product
is very beneficial and if we continue to produce and deliver the demand is
assured. In this we are fortunate. And we are also fortunate that try as
they will no squirrel is ever able to duplicate our product since one
variation (that of changed brand) leads to others and they promptly have
neither product nor demand-that observation is itself empirical. No
squirrel has lasted more than 2 or 3 years in the past sixteen years. And
there have been many. That they squirrel shows enough bad faith to drive
away the public the moment the public hears of the original. Thus,
providing we maintain the will and skill to produce and deliver we can
expand and proper expansion that will continue is possible. All our policy
then is built on EXPANSION. It assumes we wish to survive. And it stresses
the production and delivery of a straight non-squirrel product. It is
calculated to ensure a continued and widening demand by ensuring that
product remains good and beneficial. The technology itself is complete but
it expands also by experience of administration of it and simplifying its
presentation. But to alter the basics of the technology will stop expansion
because it is what we are producing, not what we are building. We are
building a better universe. It has not been a good universe to live in so
far but it can be. Our punitive force is our Ethics system and it exists to
ensure the quality of the product and to prevent the blunting of demand for
the product. INTERPRETATION OF POLICY
The organisation then has all its policy rigged to expand. It takes
many things to ensure expansion. Thus when you are interpreting policy it
should be interpreted only against EXPANSION as the single factor governing
it. This can serve to clarify questions about policy. The correct
interpretation always leads to expansion, not holding a level or
contraction. For example, policy bars the entrance of the healing field.
This is solely because there is too much trouble with the occupiers of that
field and only outright war (with no demand) could solve them. This seems
to be a brake on expansion. It is only a brake on expanding by war in the
absence of demand. Therefore the right way to expand is to gradually build
up general public demand, let experience by the public see that we heal and
when the demand is there and howling for us, reinterpret the policy or
abolish it as a brake to expansion. As one can only expand by external
demand for the product, if one seeks to expand in the absence of a specific
demand for the product, one has war and war doesn't lead to expansion any
more than burning heretics and other brutalities expanded the Catholic
movement. So one interprets policy against Proper Expansion that is proper.
CORRECT EXPANSION
Expansion which when expanded can hold its territory without effort is
proper and correct expansion. Hitler (like Caesar) did not "consolidate his
conquered territory". It was not possible to do so, not because he did not
have troops but because he didn't have a real demand for German technology
and social philosophy before conquering. Thus Hitler lost his war and
fascist Germany died. It is almost impossible to consolidate territory
where one was not invited in in the first place and force had to be used in
order to expand. One can remove a real suppressive by force to ensure
demand will then build, providing he does not seek to force the product on
the suppressive and all those around the suppressive. The suppressive, as
an individual, can be removed by force because he is an anti-demand factor
using falsehood and lies to prevent demand from occurring. But one, in
removing the suppressive, has to be sure one's own product and delivery are
still correct and straight and in no way suppressive of anything but
suppressives. Further one must leave, at least a crack in the door and
never close it with a crash on anyone because a demand still may develop
there. The only way to start a full scale revolution is totally and
thoroughly slam the door. One must always leave a crack open. The
suppressive can recant and apologize. The pauper can by certain actions, no
matter how improbable, secure service. Etc. In short, use force only to
shut down false anti-demand factors. Yet leave the door at least a crack
open in case demand without duress develops. Never finally shut off a
possible demand. You can stimulate demand. You can create it. But you may
only comfortably and properly expand into demand. Removal of a suppressive
only brings a potential appearance of demand from the area he dominated.
That potential, by some means, the best of which are good dissemination and
service examples, must become demand before one can truly occupy territory.
Thus areas taken purely by force of arms can never be held by force of arms
in the absence of demand for product and thus demand by the area for
occupation and consolidation. As we have a product that frees in an
ultimate sense and de-aberrates there is of course an end to the game. But
it is so far ahead, embracing a whole universe, that it requires minimal
consideration. Expansion requires area to expand into. And we are in no
danger of running out of that. If we were dependent as nations often think
they are on boundary expansion on one planet, or into one planet's
populations as companies think they are, we would have brakes on expansions
due to territorial or population limitations alone. But we are not likely
to encounter such barriers for a period of time so long we can consider our
expansion potential as infinite-and are the only organisation that honestly
can so consider. We are not conquering land in the government sense anyway.
OVER-EXPANSION
All factors, then, in policy are rigged for expansion. And this brings
about a possibility one can be asked about, that of overexpansion. One can
"over-expand" by acquiring too much territory too fast without knowing how
to handle it. One can conquer new territory as fast as one wants IF he
knows how to handle the situation. There are several ways one can "over-
expand". They all boil down to over-extended administration lines in a
single administrative unit. In this one must know the principle on which
the org board was originally conceived. It is that of Thetan-Mind - Body-
Product. If there is a thetan, a mind (organisation potential not a harmful
mass) can be set up, a mind which will organise a body which will produce a
product. If any one of these elements (Thetan-Mind-Body-Product) are
missing then an organisation will fail. Man is so aberrated all mental
actions seem to him to be reactive mind actions. But there has to be in
organisations a data and problem-solution coordination unit in order to set
up a body. (A thetan can do this without a lot of mass, having his memory
and perception and intelligence.) We have then an Advisory Council to
coordinate acquired data, recognise and resolve problems. Above it there
has to be a thetan somewhat detached from it. This may be a higher mind (Ad
Council) operating as a director to the lower Ad Council. The mind must
operate to form a body. This body is the Mest (Matter Energy Space and
Time) and staff of the organisation. This body must produce a product. This
in the HGC, for instance, is resolved cases. Any smaller part of the whole
organisation is also a Thetan-Mind-Body-Product. Often the executive is
both thetan and mind but as soon as traffic gets too heavy, he must form a
separate mind such as an administrative committee or a personal staff to
compose the mind. In such a smaller unit than the whole org, there is yet a
body (the staff and Mest of the unit). And there must be a specific
product. The product sometimes is absent and sometimes incorrectly assigned
but if so the unit won't function. Over-expansion occurs only when one
tries to handle the larger volume with the same Thetan-Mind-Body - Product
numbers one had before. This tells you why single practitioners can't
expand their practices without overwork. It also tells you why some
executives are upset at the idea of expansion as they (lacking
organisational insight) see it solely as overwork. They don't see that when
you expand volume and traffic you must expand the organisation. There is a
wrong way and a right way to expand an organisation. The wrong way is to
add staff and facilities endlessly (like governments tend to do) without
adding to the organisation itself. If you had huge affluences occurring
steadily you would soon go into collapse if you did not expand also by
organisational units or branches. In taking over a new field or area of
operation, for instance, one errs when he adds that traffic to the basic
organisation's traffic. In the presence of huge escalating affluences one
must analyse what is causing them and reinforce them. BUT one must also see
what new KIND of traffic is being added. If one finds a new KIND of traffic
then one sets up a sub-organisation unit to handle it which is complete in
itself. If we are now getting "business men" in quantity we set up, under
the control of the original organisation: 1. a thetan to supervise it 2. a
mind to coordinate it 3. a body to handle it, and 4. a new product called
"released/cleared business men". If we then were to find the new unit,
struggling to form itself into 7 divisions on its own by now, gets a lot of
demand and statistics on an Org Exec Course, it must cease to gratuitously
coach it and set up its "Business Academy" teaching the Org Exec Course as
Dept 10, appointing a thetan, mind, body and achieving a product "trained
business men" and see that units to support it occur in other divisions and
an Ethics unit to prevent blunting of demand and re - aberration. This can
even go backwards. One sets up in Dissern a unit called "Business Course
Project Promotion Section" and stimulates the demand and then when it is
there puts in its Department 10. Soon all seven divisions have extra units
to care for this new action, each unit with a Thetan-Mind-Body-Product. The
products are different but they all add up to "trained business men",
whether they are creating demand, financing or servicing. So over-expansion
is only under-organisation in the main. One can of course "over-expand" by
attempted servicing in the absence of demand causing thus losses in
finance. In such a case only concentrate on creating new demand not on
servicing old demands. This by the way is the most common error in
organisations of ours. They shrink because they are not creating new demand
and concentrate only on creating demand in those already demanding (which
is lazy-easy). New demand is expensive to develop. Thus you often see
finance units frowning on "new demand" expenses and cutting down magazines
in number of issue, not buying new mail lists, etc. To start a new sub
organisation, one sets up on the basis of potential demand, sets up Ethics
to prevent demand - blunting or bad internal service or performance, works
on increasing the demand, introduces service, sets up external Ethics to
prevent blunted demand, increases the demand by dissemination to new. and
old areas of demand, increases service, ensures product, increases the
organisation (not just staff), increases demand in new and old areas,
stiffens up Ethics, improves service facilities, etc., etc. It's continuous
expansion of volume, continuous expansion of organisation, continuous
expansion of demand. Where one lags behind the others one gets trouble. It
is almost impossible to run a non-expanding organisation with ease. One
gets into financial crises, staff troubles and overwork. Decay has set in.
And fighting it is sure to overwork an executive. The easiest course is to
expand. Then one has the help. Summary: In understanding policy one must
understand its key and that is expansion. Only a Scientology organisation
has an unlimited horizon. But any organisation must expand to survive. The
only ways you can "over-expand" are to fail to expand with new demand and
keep pace with it evenly with organisational expansion as well as numbers.
It is easier to expand than to "remain level". Organisations and units
which do not expand cannot stay level and so contract. Org executives and
personnel are overworked only when they cannot afford to expand and thus
cannot get the help they need to do the work, quite in addition to there
being more problems made by contraction than by expansion. Scientology
organisations are designed for expansion. Expansion requires an expansion
of all factors involved and when something expands out of pace with the
rest which is not expanding at the same rate, trouble is caused. Uniform
expansion of demand. Ethics and service into new fields and areas as well
as old areas of operation is needful to trouble-free activities. Each
member and unit of an organisation has a product which is different,
contributes to the whole product of an organisation. The ultimate product
of Scientology is a universe that is decent and happy to live in, not
degenerated and made miserable by suppressives as it has been. This is
accomplished by the de-aberration of individuals and the prevention of
blunted demand and re-aberration by suppressives and this is the method of
expansion. If in these early days of Scientology we have any troubles they
occurred by an earlier imbalance of expansion. Demand was created without
handling suppressives which unequal expansion gave us a backlog of
unhandled ethics in the society. All we need do is catch up our backlog in
those organisational functions which were not expanded when they should
have been and all will go smoothly. Any time you do not expand uniformly
with all functions you get an appearance of over-expansion by some
functions. The best answer is not to cancel the expanded functions which
over-reached but to catch them up by expanding the ones one neglected in
support. You will have trouble wherever you cut back an expansion as that
is contraction. The answer, within reason, is to advance all else to catch
up to the expanded portion while still, more calmly, expanding it.
L. RON HUBBARD Founder LRH:jp.rd Copyright c 1966 by L. Ron Hubbard
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 24 DECEMBER 1966 Gen Non - Remimeo Execs SH Org
Exec Course ADMIN KNOW-HOW HOW TO PROGRAMME AN ORG SAINT HILL PROGRAMMES In
past years we have had many problems resulting in programmes as follows:
The sequence of major programmes at Saint Hill: To provide a home for LRH
and family in Commonwealth area so Commonwealth area could be organised and
made self-supporting. To provide admin facilities for LRH in Commonwealth
area. To make Commonwealth area self-supporting regardless of US funds or
customers. (Not yet resolved.) To train technical and admin staffs for
Commonwealth orgs. To make Commonwealth outer orgs run on their income
without their using all the bills sums owed SH or Ron as part of their
operating funds. To find financial support for SH activities resulting in
the SHSBC which also accomplished the next above. To handle Commonwealth
activities and organisations and also handle US activities. (Solved by
Telex and QIC and later the Exec Div WW.) To establish SH general broad
promotion. (Solved by The Auditor.) To provide facilities for administering
critical high level Tech such as Power Processes. (Solved by SH HGC.) To
organise SH so it could be administered (made needful by '63-'64 collapse
of multiple corporative set-up). (Solved by 7 Div System completed by end
of 1965.) To refine the Qual Div to prevent all "failed cases", train staff
and improve Tech. To get Reports of Tax, etc. off continual crash
programmes. (Solved by Treasurer but incomplete of any guarantee of
chartered accountant compliance.) To get field auditors to cooperate and
stop conflicts with orgs (FSM programme). To refine the Tech Div. (Finished
about August 1966.) To get in smooth operation on Ethics system. To operate
the Clearing Course and to assembly line Clears. (Still under refinement
but more or less complete.) To establish and operate OT Course. (Just now
under development.) To beat back continuous attacks by suppressives in the
3rd and 4th dynamics. (Solved by establishing Intelligence Branch.) To
train up staffs at SH and in outer orgs by Staff Status and Org Exec
Course. To improve the Cash-Bills ratios of orgs. To safeguard income once
earned by better financial planning. To reform Ad Councils into
representative bodies (now complete with the formation of an Executive
Council). To assemble all Sen materials. (Flopped by reason of non-
compliance but lately re-instituted.) Dictionary Project to prevent
misunderstood words. (In sporadic and jerky action to this day.) To handle
legal situations which built up by non-compliance by attorneys internal and
external in org. (Under solution by forming Guardian Legal Branch.) To
improve and maintain affluences. (Just begun.) To help Scientology
dissemination and attack more broadly to prevent such quantities of legal
defense. (OT Activities programme just begun.) To safeguard, continue and
expand all Scientology orgs. (Worked on a bit, not really concentrated on
except for Cash-Bills and Staff Status.) General improvement of finances.
(OT Activities.) Buildings for Sen orgs. (OT Activities.) To establish
better audio-visio educational facilities. (Barely begun.) ________________
These have been and are the major programme steps which have been
implemented or are under development at Saint Hill since 1959 and forward
to the end of 1966. Some of the years covered acquired names such as: 1965 -
The Year of Organisation. 1966 - The Year of the Clears. 1967 - will
probably be the Year of the O.T.'s. _________________ It will be noted that
each of these programmes solved a self-evident problem. It must be realized
then that these problems did exist. If the problems exist again, remember
there was already a solution programme and usually it has only been dropped
and the problem reappeared because it had been dropped. The proper
directive action is to re-implement and improve the solution which is to
say in the case of SH, the carrying out of the successful programmes noted
above. _________________ Ad Councils are always advancing new programmes
and often it is only an old programme dropped out that needs re-
instituting, not a new solution. Certainly an old problem has cropped up
again. There have been other programmes of course. Many solutions to old
problems and of major importance, are found in Policy Letters. Some
programmes although necessary have never been successfully implemented.
There was the motion picture programme but it is dogged by technical bugs
and became part of the Audio-Visio programme now being attempted. There has
been the re-write of all books programme but I've been too overworked to
attempt it. Other future, self-evident programmes will come into being.
They will only fail if earlier programmes, dropped out or not given
reorganisation when needed, bring old problems into view by exposing them.
All the problems underlying the programme solutions above still potentially
exist, held in abeyance only by the programmes. The best way to form
programmes is to isolate actual problems at any level of operation and
solve them either by removing elements that make them or by instituting a
programme. Sensible planning tends toward both actions. An unsuccessful
programme usually will be found to be solving the wrong problem or is
itself an improper solution to an actual problem. If you want to establish
the validity of a new programme offered by someone, ask him what problem it
is seeking to solve. You can then see if you already have a solution to the
problem, but most often you will see that no clarified idea of the problem
existed and so the solution is poor or inadequate. The common problem of an
org is not the development of programmes but failure to execute existing
ones. Another difficulty with orgs is that they often alter the existing
programme so that it no longer resolves the problem the programme was set
up to handle. A current example is magazines. Magazines exist to solve the
problem of public unawareness of an org. An org has no space unless it is
sending out anchor points to make it. And it is in non - existence for its
Scientology public unless it mails magazines regularly. Magazines do not
develop much new public - that is another, largely unsolved, problem.
Magazines exist to continue the awareness of the existing Scientology
public. Now as these people are already aware of Scientology, the awareness
one is trying to develop is that of the org and its services. Recently
Continental magazines began to issue only Scientology data. The ads making
the Scientology public aware of the org were toned down and omitted and the
Cash-Bills ratio worsened in orgs. The orgs started toward non-existence.
Significantly the trend was begun by a someone who did not like orgs but
was in favour of Scientology. Issue Authority erred in not looking at old
magazines and comparing them to the current layout. There was a vast
difference. No ads in current ones. The programme had been altered. Artists
are taught to be "original" and to alter. Yet successful artists painted
the same picture their whole lives under different names. These just seemed
new. To change, alter or drop a programme one must know what the programme
was there to solve. Just change for change's sake is mere aberration
(making the lines crooked). It's a good exercise for a senior executive to
list the problems the org really does have. To know the programmes of an
org that are in is to see what problems an org would have if they were
dropped. It's healthy to revert a programme now and then by meticulously
examining how it was originally when it was very successful and then put it
back the way it was originally. This is done not by adjusting lines but by
looking up old magazines, old policy, old despatches and issue pieces, even
old tapes. What did it used to consist of? If it is no longer successful:
(a) the programme was altered or dropped and (b) the org will have a
problem it once had long ago, or (c) (rare) the causes of the problem have
been removed and the problem no longer exists. There's lots of trial and
error in developing a programme. That's why any new programme should only
be a "special project" for a while, off the org main lines really, under
special management. If a "special project" starts to show up well in
finance (and only in finance), then one should include it "in" with its new
staff as an org standard project. To run new programmes in on existing
lines is to disturb (by distraction and staff overload) existing programmes
and even if good the new will fail and damage as well existing programmes.
Provide, then, staff and money to pioneer a new programme as a "special
project". If you don't have money or staff to do this you would do far, far
better simply looking over the problems the org faces and get in the old
programmes that handled them. These are known winners and don't forget,
they cost a lot to find and prove as the thing to do. And they took a long
time. Take the Central Files,. Letter Reg set-up in orgs. That's a standard
programme. Developed in London and D.C. in the mid '50s. If you dropped it
out, an org would fail. The problem is "how to achieve special individual
contact with existing clientele and maintain existing already developed
business." One large firm, I was told the other day, that has put in our 7
division system was stunned to find they had never contacted their existing
business clientele. They only had done business with new clientele. This
cost them perhaps 200,000 sales a year! They promptly put in our CF-Letter
Registrar system with a vengeance. In their case (as in a forming or
reorganised org) they weren't even aware of the problem and so had no
programme for it. It is often the case that one can develop a programme
that removes the need of some other programme. If one removes the factors
that make the problem, one can dispense with the programme that solves it.
But this is so rare it is non-human in most instances. For instance,
doctors are a public solution to the problem of human body illness. If one
removed this problem, one could remove the "doctor programme" safely.
That's why doctors sometimes fight us. We are thought to be working to
remove the problem to which they are a programme. One would have to have
more than a better cure. One would have to remove in the 4th Dynamic
(Mankind) the causes of illness. These would not be what people think they
are as the problem persists and so does the "doctor programme" in the
society. It can't be the right problem. Only enough is known of the causes
of illness to make the problem appear to be handled. Actually the bad
statistic of ill people is rising. We have entered the field in research
only far enough to know that suppressives make people ill but that's a
sufficient departure to make it an Ethics problem, not one in treatment! By
extension of this theory one might find this problem not caused by
Pasteur's germs but by suppressive groups. In that case one would increase
ethics programmes. Eventually, if this solved it, the "doctor programme"
would be diminished as no longer the only solution. The above is not a
statement of intention or a plan. It is an example of how an old standard
programme can become less important. Note that one would have to (a) state
the problem better than it had been stated, (b) isolate causes of the real
problem, (c) institute a "special project" to handle those causes, (d) see
if the problem was now better handled, (e) abandon it if it didn't handle
the problem or (0 make it a standard programme if it did prove effective,
(g) diminish the old programme. So just dropping a proven programme
(without going at it as above [a] to [f]) can be a catastrophe as it can
let in an old problem when one already has quite enough problems already.
Abandoned programmes that were successful are currently the main cause of
orgs being in any difficulty. You can always make an org run better by
studying old successful programmes and getting them back in. If you were to
take the above list at Saint Hill, the major SH programmes since 1959, and
simply revert them (make them more like the original) and reinforce them,
income would probably double. If we abandoned as few as five of these the
SH org would undoubtedly collapse. If we added six new programmes directly
into the org without seeing the problem to be solved we could distract
staff to a point where the old standard programmes would suffer and the org
would collapse. Sometimes, even in our orgs, we enter new arbitraries which
make new problems we don't need. Those are the sources we can do without.
If we didn't routinely abolish such org-generated problems we would fade
away in a year. Therefore we cherish and forward the existing programmes we
have and study them continually to be sure they don't "go out".
___________________ This is not a list of the problems faced at Saint Hill,
it is a list of solutions. For these programmes may accidentally be solving
problems we cannot yet clearly state. This is not a list of all major
programmes in Scientology. These are found in the Policy Letters of past
years and particularly 1965. This is a list of the major SH programmes for
use by SH executives and as an illustration to others on how to programme
and to show them that as Scientologists we use our knowledge of the
mechanics of life, problems and solutions, to govern programmes. If all the
problems we faced were only ours only we could of course simply audit them
out. But we exist in a 3rd and 4th Dynamic which is not merely aberrated
but quite batty. This thrusts problems on us (finance, international
ignorance and intolerance, religious and psychiatric cults, suppressive
governments, retarded or misused scientific technology, lack of human
dignity and a host of other factors). We exist therefore in a rather madly
tossing sea, beset by numerous counter currents. As we grow we can remove
vicious causes that make our problems problems. Only then can we begin to
drop certain programmes as the problems will cease to exist. But at this
writing those problems do exist and holding them in check are numerous
solutions we call programmes. Where one of our standard programmes fails
through lack of recognition we then see a problem charging in on us
demanding crash programming by higher executives. When we let uninformed or
worse people put in new arbitraries or solutions that solve no problem we
disturb old programmes and soon have heavy trouble through unnecessary
programming. (Watching a new inexperienced Ad Council propose "programmes"
is a painful experience to a trained and effective executive. These
proposed measures look silly because they confront no real problems of the
org and are dangerous because they will distract the org from correct
existing programmes of which the new Ad Council seems blissfully unaware.)
When an org doesn't know its programmes it can get pretty silly and deeply
in trouble. If it also knows its problems it is fortunate. But any
Scientology org is rich in programmes already proven and tested and in
exact drill. If it just keeps these going it will win even if it doesn't
see the problems. As it wins the org expands, can afford more assistance,
is less under duress. Then it can begin to examine the problems themselves
(still keeping the solution as a programme) and possibly remove some of the
causes of the actual problem. Only when the problem is gone can one drop a
programme. A Scientology org is best fitted to do this as its staff is
going up tone by processing and is more and more able to confront and see
source. Therefore it eventually can remove the causes of its problems since
it can (a) see the problem and (b) see the bad sources which make the
problem. Until it can see, it is not safe to drop any of the solutions. And
as orgs are a channel or a way in themselves they always will have a bottom
strata of people who cannot yet see the problems and so need explicit
programmes to follow. As the lower strata moves up, a new lower strata, by
expansion, takes its place so there is no real end to programmes until the
day comes when the Universe is sane. And that's not tomorrow or even the
day after. But we are making steady, relentless progress in that direction.
Mainly because of our programmes, well applied.
L. RON HUBBARD Founder
LRH:jp.rd Copyright c 1966 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 24 DECEMBER 1966 Issue II Correction and Addition
Gen Non - Remimeo Execs SH Org Exec Course ADMIN KNOW-HOW HOW TO PROGRAMME
AN ORG CORRECTIONS AND ADDITION SEQUENCE OF PROGRAMMES CORRECTION The Sixth
SH programme from the top on page one states, "To find financial support
for SH activities resulting in the SHSBC which also accomplished the next
above. " This does not refer to "next above" but to two above, "To train
technical and admin staffs for Commonwealth orgs." The Saint Hill Special
Briefing Course was founded (a) to train tech and admin staffs for
Commonwealth orgs and (b) was found to be the solvency factor of Saint Hill
which was being looked for. "Next above", "To make Commonwealth orgs run on
their income without using all the bills sums owed SH or Ron as part of
their operating funds" has only partially been solved and the SHSBC was not
founded to solve it although it helped. The 7 Div system began to solve it
(financial independence of outer orgs) but only where a good Qual Div was
put in first and all area failed or overrun cases were picked up. It is
notable that Sydney and Adelaide, reported by Auckland to have put in no
Qual Div even after 2 years of urging, were low orgs on the totem pole.
Others that did get in a Qual Div and pick up their failed cases and
overruns improved very markedly. So the solution to solvent outer orgs that
could run without using SH or Ron's income lay in (a) establishing a fine
Qual Div, (b) picking up their area's "failed cases" and also repairing all
overruns, (c) training their staffs on tech and admin in the new Qual and
(d) putting in a fine Tech Div. Those that really did that are going very
well. Sydney, which butchered cases once by overrun R2-12, evidently
completely neglected the programme and remains insolvent.
ADDITION
To make a simpler statement of What is a Programme, the following is
offered: 1. The org has a problem relating to its function and survival. 2.
Unless the problem is solved, the org will not do well and may even go
under. 3. The solution is actually an org activity or drill. We call this a
PROGRAMME. 4. To find and establish a programme, one conceives of a
solution and sets it up independent of org lines with its own staff and
finance as a SPECIAL PROJECT. 5. When a special project is seen to be
effective or, especially, profitable, it is then put into the org lines as
worked out in the "special project", bringing its own staff with it. 6. The
usual place to carry a special project is under the Office of LRH or the
Office of the HCO Exec Sec or Office of the Org Exec Sec. Programmes go in
their appropriate departments and divisions, one to six, not seven.
OVERHAULING A PROJECT
When a programme goes bad, gets altered to a point of unworkability or
carelessly conducted or is dropped without orders to do so, two things may
happen.
1. The Exec Sec (or LRH, Guardian or Asst Guardian or LRH Comm) over
that division puts the executives which should have seen to the programme
in DANGER Condition and personally pushes to get the programme back in as a
programme. 2. If this fails, the Exec Sec (or LRH, the Guardian or Asst
Guardian or the LRH Comm) hauls the whole programme into his own office as
though it were a new special project, gets it personnel and finance and
sets it all up and then gives it over to its correct dept and division. The
second step comes about when one finds any non-compliance in doing (1)
above. As a Danger Condition was already set up and the Exec Sec (or other
senior) is handling it on a by-pass already, if one still can't get the
programme restarted there is no other action one can take than pulling the
whole thing into one's own office. For sure somebody has a foot on it.
Although we can try to find WHO has, this is no reason to continue to stall
the programme. After a Danger Condition on a programme has existed for a
while with no change of activity, one is wasting one's time to keep pushing
on a via. The easier course is simply to say, "As Address has been in
Danger for some time and still continues to goof, I, the HCO Exec Sec,
hereby take Address into my office in Division 7 where I will personally
straighten it out and meanwhile the Ad Council is to nominate for the Exec
Council a new HCO Area Sec." In actual operation-I often do (1) above-call
a Danger Condition on a programme that is not functioning, handle it
personally and use Ethics action on those by-passed. Sometimes when (1)
doesn't work, I realize there is interference still and haul the whole
section into my office as a function of my office. It may stay there quite
a while. Then I will put it elsewhere as a complete section transfer.
Sometimes after the transfer I again have to haul it back. Usually that's
because it went into the wrong place in the org. If you put a section in
the wrong dept or division it just won't function. The exception is the
Exec Div and anything can be put in there for a while. The common error in
(2) is to forget one has it and forget to transfer it when formed up
properly. If one looks over what hats he is wearing one usually finds a
programme or two he has been handling and which he ought to finish up in
final form and put into the org proper. In theory any exec or even an In
Charge can do (l)& (2) above. If (1) doesn't work then do (2). The main
mistake is to forget to complete the action of (2) by putting the programme
back in place in the org. To prevent that from happening, when you do (2),
change it also on the org board. Then it stays in view. Otherwise one
forgets and soon begins to feel overworked. Almost any executive is holding
on to a special project or two or even a programme. So one should routinely
look over one's own hats and re-find these and complete cycle on them.
L. RON HUBBARD Founder
LRH:jp.rd Copyright c 1966 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 14 JANUARY 1969
Remimeo Starrate on all Execs
OT ORGS
What it takes to make an org go right is the intelligent assessment of
what really needs to be done, setting these as targets and then getting
them actually fully done. We have all the data necessary to make orgs boom.
Therefore we find that when they don't, these faults must be present: 1.
Completely unreal analysis of what needs to be done to make things really
go. 2. Cross orders-juniors setting other targets across vital targets. 3.
Non-compliance with vital target accomplishment. 4. False reports on
actions or false data concerning targets. 5. Failure to doggedly follow
through on one action and get it done fully and completely. 6. Distractions
leading to any of the above. MAJOR TARGET The desirable overall purpose
being undertaken. This is highly generalized, such as "To become an
auditor". VITAL TARGET By definition a VITAL Target is something that must
be done to operate at all. Man's worst difficulty is his inability to tell
the important from the unimportant. "Every target is the same as every
other target" is part of A=A=A. It takes good sense to be able to survey an
area and find out 1. What MUST be done. 2. What SHOULDN'T be done. 3. What
is only desirable to be done. 4. What is trivial. As Man all too easily
specializes in stops he tends to stress what SHOULDN'T be done. While this
enters into it, remember that it's a STOP. STOPS ALL OCCUR BECAUSE OF
FAILED PURPOSES. BEHIND EVERY STOP THERE IS A FAILED PURPOSE. A stuck
picture or a motionless org are similar. Each has behind it a failed
purpose. THERE IS A LAW ABOUT THIS-ALL YOU HAVE TO DO TO RESTORE LIFE AND
ACTION IS TO REKINDLE THE FAILED PURPOSE. THE STOPS WILL AT ONCE BLOW. That
law (it comes out of OT VIII materials) is so powerful it would practically
revive the dead! It applies to orgs. It applies to cities or nations. When
you diverge from a constructive purpose to "stop attacks", the purpose has
been abandoned. You get a stop. The real way to stop attacks is to widen
one's zone of responsibility. And pour the coal on the purpose. Thus all
attacks one makes should be in THE DIRECTION OF ENLARGING ONE'S SCOPE AND
AUGMENTING BASIC PURPOSE. Thus, in the case of Scientology orgs one should
attack with the end in view of taking over the whole field of Mental
Healing. If our purpose was this then it had to be this on all dynamics. We
only got into trouble by failing to take responsibility for the whole
field! We'll win back by reasserting that responsibility and making it
good. Targets, to that degree, are purposes. Purposes must be executed.
They are something to DO. OT Let us look at the definition of OT-cause over
Thought Life Form Matter Energy Space and Time. As one falls away from that
one becomes a SPECTATOR, then one becomes an effect. Then one is gone. One
causes things by action. Not by thinking dim thoughts. One can be doing an
IN basket as simply a spectator. In the society today spectatorism is very
common. Magazine writers, reporters write weird pieces that look at how odd
things are. The writer doesn't understand them at all. He just watches
them. Spectatorism is not so low as total effect. The total effect-no cause-
person has mainly a case. He doesn't even look. Thus there is a gradient
scale of OT. It's not an absolute. One is as OT as he can CAUSE things. One
of the things to cause is target attainment. When somebody can push through
a target to completion he's to that degree OT. People who don't push
targets are either just spectators or they are total effect. ORG STATE An
Org is somewhere on the OT scale. Any org is. Of any kind. An org can
figure out the vital targets and push them through to completion or it
can't. It's a gradient scale. An org succeeds or fails to the degree its
individual executives and staff members can measure up to the OT formula:
Cause. Scientology orgs must become cause over their environments. They do
this by each executive and each staff member accomplishing targets, small
and large. Thus: (a) if the targets of what MUST be done to operate at all
are set and (b) are carried out with no non-compliance and (c) if no false
reports are entered into it, Then That org is way high on the OT scale AND
IT WILL CONQUER ITS ENTIRE ENVIRONMENT COMPLETE. That's really all there is
to it. One way to fail at it is do (a) with things that are so general that
they invite no doingness. Some guys are so bad off they set targets like
"Move the Mountain" and give one and all a big failure. Since there's no
way to do it and probably no reason to either, that's an SP target. So what
MUST be done means just that. What is vital and necessary. Not what is
simply a good idea. Here's some MUST targets as examples: A. Get Tech
delivered 100% in the org itself. B. Get the public aware of its being
delivered and wanting it. C. Get the admin machinery in to get the public
in and out. Or another series: D. GET 10,000 trained auditors into the org
field. E. Get the public aware of the project and wanting training. F. Set
up terrific 100% snap-pop courses to handle the flow. Or another: G. Get
a?100,000 reserve cushion. H. Get all Accounts staff and Executives checked
out on Finance Policy. I. Shove the throttle down on promotion. J. Deliver
fantastic service. K. Get enough tech people in training to handle the
flows. L. Find bigger poshier quarters to handle the flow when it rises. M.
Get all staff onto the OEC to diminish flow line flubs. You get the idea.
An exec who is just a spectator to his In basket flow is doing nothing but
cultivating Dev-T. You can assess the situation. You can drive targets home
to full completion. Every executive and every staff member is somewhere on
the OT Scale. And he can rise higher just by setting up the targets and
plowing them through to done, done, done. Yes, it requires ideas. But ideas
come from interested looking and sizing it all up before you set the target
in the first place. You can even raise an org by gradients so as not to
overwhelm it. Set and make small targets. Then bigger and bigger ones.
Well, you get the idea. It's the ORG's road to OT.
L. RON HUBBARD Founder LRH:bw.ei.rd Copyright c 1969 by L.Ron Hubbard
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
NOTE: This Policy Letter has been corrected as per HCO P/L 23 January
1969 OT ORGS CORRECTION. HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 16 JANUARY 1969 (Reissued from Flag Order No.
1734, same date and title) Remimeo TARGETS, TYPES OF There are several
VALUES of targets. Not all targets are the same value or importance. There
are, in any org "understood" or continuing targets which came from FOs or
Pol Ltrs and Mission Orders. PRIMARY TARGETS There is a group of
"understood" targets which if overlooked, brings about inaction. The first
of these is SOMEBODY THERE Then WORTHWHILE PURPOSE Then SOMEBODY TAKING
RESPONSIBILITY FOR THE AREA OR ACTION Then FORM OF ORGANIZATION PLANNED
WELL Then FORM OF ORGANIZATION HELD OR REESTABLISHED Then ORGANIZATION
OPERATING If we have the above "understood" targets we can go on BUT IF
THESE DROP OUT OR ARE NOT SUBSTITUTED FOR then no matter what targets are
set thereafter they will go rickety or fail entirely. In the above there
may be a continual necessity to reassert one or more of the "understood"
targets WHILE trying to get further targets going. VITAL TARGETS Under this
heading comes WHAT WE MUST DO TO OPERATE AT ALL. This requires an
inspection of both the area one is operarating into and the factors or
materiel or organization with which we are operating. One then finds those
points (sometimes WHILE operating) which stop or threaten future successes.
And sets the overcoming of the vital ones as targets. CONDITIONAL TARGETS
It is interesting that one can go into an art type "perfection" with
targets and groom up Primary Targets far beyond the need to accomplish
purposes. You've seen chaps work all their lives to "get rich" or some such
thing in order to "tour the world" and never make it. Some other fellow
sets Tour the world and goes directly at it and does it. So there is a type
of Target known as a Conditional Target: If I could just.... then we
could.... and so accomplish.... This is all right of course until it gets
unreal. There is a whole class of Conditional Targets that have no IF in
them. These are legitimate targets. They have lots of WILL in them, "We
will...... and then......" Sometimes sudden "Breaks" show up and one must
quickly take advantage of them. This is only "good luck". One uses it and
replans quickly when it happens. One is on shaky ground to count on "good
luck" as a solution. A valid conditional Target would be "We will go there
and see if the area is useful." All conditional targets are basically
actions of gathering data first and if it is okay, then go into action on a
vital target and Operating target basis. This could add up like this: CT I -
Survey Lower Slobovia to see if it would be a suitable place for an org.
This survey done, if it is positive one then goes into Primary Targets and
Operating Targets. The Primary Targets would be Lower Slobovia One: Appoint
Local Organization Officer here for Lower Slobovia. Lower Slobovia Two:
Form up Lower Slobovian Org-Personnel. Lower Slobovia Three: Train up Org-
Staff Training Officer. Lower Slobovia Four: Translate texts. (Translation
Section) Lower Slobovia Five: Finance Formation. (Finance Section) Lower
Slobovia Six: Transport LS Org. (Transport Section) Lower Slobovia Seven;
Prepare LS bidg in LS BEFORE ORG ARRIVES-LS Org Officer. Thus we would
establish Lower Slobovia. AND IT WOULD ALL GO OFF WELL TO THE DEGREE THE
PRIMARY TARGETS WERE MADE, DONE, COMPLETED. Primary Targets setting on
Lower Slobovia would fail if some primary target were omitted in the first
place (never set) or if the Conditional Target findings on LS were a false
report. Thus we are very hot on "false report" and very hot on "non-
compliance". OPERATING TARGETS An operating target would set the direction
of advance and qualify it. It normally includes a scheduled TIME by which
it has to be complete so as to fit into other targets. Sometimes the time
is set as "BEFORE". And there may be no time for the event that it must be
done "before". Thus it goes into a rush basis "just in case". To get all
the Shoe Salesmen in Boston enrolled on a PE Course would be an operating
target. This would then go into the framework of a primary target as to the
remaining targets set. Operating targets often look like "basic purpose".
They can come before or after primary targets. But an operating target has
its own series of Primary targets. To enroll all the shoe salesmen you need
somebody in charge of it, a PE Supervisor, literature, a handbook for
salesmen, etc. etc. which are all set as Primary targets. Sometimes an
elaborate Operating and Primary Target series falls apart because there was
no Conditional Target set, i.e. to find out if Boston had any salesmen and
which types were responsive. You might find the Operating Target had been
set with no inspection. So, again, we can move backward and find that an
Operating Target needs a Conditional Target ahead of it-to wit, an
inspection. PRODUCTION TARGETS Setting quotas, usually against time, are
production targets. These often fail because they are unreal or issued for
other reasons than production (i.e. propaganda). As statistics most easily
reflect production, an org or activity can be so PRODUCTION TARGET
conscious that it fails to set Conditional, Operating or Primary Targets.
When this happens, then Production is liable to collapse for lack of
planning stated in other types of targets. Production as the only target
type can become so engulfing that Conditional Targets even when set are
utterly neglected. Then Operating and Primary Targets get very unreal and
stats go DOWN. YOU HAVE TO INSPECT AND SURVEY AND GATHER DATA AND SET
OPERATING AND PRIMARY TARGETS BEFORE YOU CAN SET PRODUCTION TARGETS. A
normal reason for down statistics on production is the vanishment of
Primary Targets. These go out and nobody notices that this affects
production badly. Production depends on other prior targets being kept in.
PROGRAMMES Programmes are made up of all types of targets coordinated and
executed. ON TIME. Programmes extend in time and go overdue to the extent
the various types of targets are not set or not pushed home or drop out.
Programmes fail only because the various types of targets are not executed
or are not kept in. SUMMARY You can get done almost anything you want to do
if types of targets are understood, set with reality, held in or completed.
People whose own purposes have failed often cannot either set or complete
targets. The remedy is to rehabilitate their own purposes which then blows
off the stops. People who stop targets actively have failed so badly that
they can only think in terms of stops. This whole subject of Targets and
purposes is probably a large one. These are just rough notes and the naming
of the different types which is itself a considerable advance. It is of
help in grasping what is going on and gets one somewhere.
L. RON HUBBARD Founder
LRH:sdp.ei.rd Copyright c 1969 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 18 JANUARY 1969 Issue II (Reissued from Flag
Order No. 1736, same date and title) Remimeo
PLANNING AND TARGETS
(There are at this writing 3 HCO Pol Ltrs of near date on this subject
of Targets. The area has never before been examined or written up as a
philosophic subject.) Plans are NOT targets. All manner of plans can be
drawn and can be okayed. But this does not authorize their execution. They
are just plans. When and how they will be done and by whom has not been
established, scheduled or authorized. This is why planning sometimes gets a
bad name. You could plan to make a million dollars but if when, how and who
were not set as targets of different types, it just wouldn't happen. A
brilliant plan is drawn as to how to convert Boston Harbour into a fuel
tanker area. It could be on drawings with everything perfectly placed. One
could even have models of it. Ten years go by and it has not been started
much less completed. You have seen such plans. World's Fairs are full of
them. One could also have a plan which was targeted-who, when, how-and if
the targets were poor or unreal, it would never be completed. One can also
have a plan which had no CONDITIONAL TARGET ahead of it and so no one
really wanted it and it served no purpose really. It is unlikely it would
ever be finished. Such a thing existed in Corfu. It was a half completed
Greek theatre which had just been left that way. No one had asked the
inhabitants if they wanted it or if it was needed. So even though very well
planned and even partially targeted and half completed, there it is-half
finished. And has remained that way. A plan, by which is meant the drawing
or scale modeling of some area, project or thing, is of course a vital
necessity in any construction and construction fails without it. It can
even be okayed as a plan. But if it was not the result of findings of a
Conditional Target (a survey of what's needed or feasible) it will be
useless or won't fit in. And if no funds are allocated to it and no one is
ordered to do it and if no scheduling of doing it exists, then, on each
separate count it won't ever be done. One can define Planning as the
overall target system wherein all targets of all types are set. That would
be complete planning. COMPLETE PLANNING To get a Complete Plan okayed one
would have to show it as: (a) A result of a Conditional Target (survey of
what's wanted and needed). (b) The details of the thing itself, meaning a
picture of it or its scope plus the ease or difficulty in doing it and with
what persons or materials. (c) Classification of it as Vital or simply
useful. (d) The Primary Targets of it showing the organization needed to do
it. (e) The Operating Targets showing its scheduling (even if scheduled not
with dates but days or weeks) and dove-tailing with other actions. (f) Its
cost and whether or not it will pay for itself or can be afforded or how
much money it will make. Complete Planning would have to include the
Targets and the Plan of the thing. Thus, by redefining words and assigning
labels to target types we can get a better grip on this. A Plan would be
the design of the thing itself. Complete Planning would be all the targets
plus the design. Thus we see why some things don't come off at all and why
they often don't get completed even when planned. The Plan is not put
forward in its Target framework and so is unreal or doesn't get done. Also
it's a great way to lose or waste money. Sometimes a Conditional Target
fails to ask what obstacles or opposition would be encountered or what
skills are available and so can go off the rails in that fashion.
______________________
The whole subject of Plans, Targets and target types is new in the
realm of analyzed thought. It is a subject to "get the feel of" and "learn
to think concerning" rather than a fully "canned" subject. But if these
points are grasped, then one sees the scope of the subject and can become
quite brilliant and achieve things hitherto out of reach or never thought
of before.
L. RON HUBBARD Founder
LRH:ldm.ei.rd Copyright c 1969 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 24 JANUARY 1969 Remimeo
TARGET TYPES
(Note: This is a developing subject, new in philosophy. It is part of
the philosophy Scientology.)
You should learn the names and types of targets for quick use and
classification of what you are trying to do. MAJOR TARGET - The broad
general ambition, possibly covering a long only approximated period of
time. Such as, "To attain greater security" or, "To get the org up to 50
staff members". PRIMARY TARGET - The organizational, personnel,
communication type targets. These have to be kept in. These are the
terminals and route and havingness and org board type targets. Example: "To
put someone in charge of organizing it and have him set remaining primary
targets". Or, "To re-establish the original comm system which has dropped
out". CONDITIONAL TARGETS - Those which set up EITHER/OR to find out data
or if a project can be done or where or to whom. OPERATING TARGETS - Those
which lay out directions and actions or a schedule of events or timetable.
PRODUCTION TARGETS - Those which set quantities like statistics. PROGRAM -
The complete or outline of a complete target series containing all types.
While there may be other types of targets, these (more fully described in
HCO P/L 14 Jan 69, 16 Jan 69, 18 Jan 69 and Correction HCO P/L 23 Jan 69
and this one, HCO P/L 24 Jan 69) should be studied and every target set
should be classed as one or more of the above. "Complete Planning" and
"Programmes" are synonymous at this time and PROGRAMMES is the preferred
word.
L. RON HUBBARD Founder
LRH:ldm.ei.rd Copyright c 1969 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 24 JANUARY 1969 Issue II Remimeo Gung-Ho FSMs Pub
Divs
PURPOSE & TARGETS (This is No. 5 in the Target Series)
Out of data of OT VIII has come some material that cannot be relegated
to that level. It is minor to that level but major to our operations. The
reason we are fought where we are fought is contained in its major part in
Purposes. Purposes often fail and wind up in stop. Stopped purposes can
then be dramatized. In Scientology we use (quite correctly) FREEDOM. While
not the most basic purpose TO BE FREE is a common purpose to all thetans.
This tends to key in (restimulate), in some persons, the stop of being
free. They themselves wanted to be free. They were stopped, they dramatize
the STOP of being free and try then to stop us. We restimulated (keyed in)
their own purpose to be free or free others and where we are opposed the
person or persons dramatizes the stop or disagreement. Also where we not
only restimulate the stop but oppose and deny him as well, we get an enemy.
We are then stopping stoppers. While this is necessary to save the day, it
is preventable if begun early enough. The psychiatrist is not the only
"freedom stopper" we will ever meet. Many people who have been in healing
and mental treatment in the times before we came along had only failures.
So anything offered to them (including their own) will be looked on as a
failure at best or at worst a fraud. That it really can be done in
Scientology is not only outside their reality but regenerated the failed
purpose they have had to be free and free others and they dramatize STOP.
While this is not the total reason (interrelations also restimulate ethnic
values meaning customs) it is a big reason for dedicated opposition to us.
We restimulate their failed freedom efforts and they dramatize what stopped
them. So they irrationally seek to stop Scientology. This would also be
true for products of a commercial nature. It is good advertising
technology. Freedom is one of the buttons that gets us forward. It is also
the button that restimulates the opposition into efforts to stop us. In
dissemination then to such people, theoretically one need only get them
remembering when they wanted to be free or free others to blow their stops.
But as they may have many crimes now built up on top of it some may just
spin. But in all discussions with persons opposing Sen, one should try the
approach of getting them to remember their efforts to be free or to free
others and let them talk. As you listen you will realize they were without
Scientology to help them and they didn't have a chance. Led in from that
point you may get a very receptive person.
L. RON HUBBARD Founder LRH:ldm.ei.rd Copyright c 1969 by L. Ron
Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 14 SEPTEMBER 1969
Remimeo Senior OEC
ADMIN KNOW-HOW #22 THE KEY INGREDIENTS
When we look at organization in its most simple form, when we seek
certain key actions or circumstances that make organization work, when we
need a very simple very vital rundown to teach people that will produce
results we find only a few points we need to stress. The purpose of
organization is TO MAKE PLANNING BECOME ACTUALITY. Organization is not just
a fancy complex system, done for its own sake. That is bureaucracy at its
worst. Org boards for the sake of org boards, graphs for the sake of
graphs, rules for the sake of rules only add up to failures. The only
virtue (not always a bad one) of a complex unwieldy meaningless
bureaucratic structure is that it provides jobs for the friends of those in
control. If it does not also bring about burdensome taxation and threatened
bankruptcy by reason of the expense of maintaining it and if it does not
saddle a people or production employees with militant inspections and
needless control, organization for the sake of providing employment is not
evil but beyond providing employment is useless, and only when given too
much authority is it destructive. The kings of France and other lands used
to invent titles and duties to give activity to the hordes of noble
hangers - on to keep them at court, under surveillance, and out of mischief
out in the provinces where they might stir up their own people. "Keeper of
the Footstools" "Holder of the Royal Nightgown" and other such titles were
fought for, bought, sold and held with ferocity. Status seeking, the effort
to become more important and have a personal reason for being and for being
respected gets in the road of honest efforts to effectively organize in
order to get something done, in order to make something economically sound.
Organization for its own sake in actual practice usually erects a monster
that becomes so hard to live with that it becomes overthrown. Production
losses, high taxes, irritating or fearsome interference with the people or
actual producers invites and accomplishes bankruptcy or revolt, usually
both even in commercial companies. Therefore to be meaningful, useful and
lasting, an organization has to fit into the definition above: TO MAKE
PLANNING BECOME ACTUALITY. In companies and countries there is no real lack
of dreaming. All but the most depraved heads of companies or states wish to
see specific or general improvement. This is also true of their executives
and, as it forms the basis of nearly all revolts, it is certainly true of
workers. From top to bottom, then, there is, in the large majority, a
desire for improvement. More food, more profit, more pay, more facilities,
and, in general, more and better of whatever they believe is good or
beneficial. This also includes less of what they generally consider to be
bad. Programmes which obtain general support consist of more of what is
beneficial and less of what is detrimental. "More food less disease" "More
beautiful buildings, less hovels" "More leisure less work" "More activity
less unemployment" are typical of valuable and acceptable programmes. But
only to have a programme is to have only a dream. In companies, in
political parties, useful programmes are very numerous. They suffer only
from a lack of execution. All sorts of variations of programme failure
occur. The programme is too big. It is not generally considered desirable.
It is not needed at all. It would benefit only a few. Such are surface
reasons. The basic reason is lack of organization know-how. Any programme,
too ambitious, partially acceptable, needed or not needed could be put into
effect if properly organized. The five year plans of some nations which are
currently in vogue are almost all very valuable and almost all fall short
of their objectives. The reason is not that they are unreal, too ambitious
or generally unacceptable. The reason for any such failure is lack of
organization. It is not man's dreams that fail him. It is the lack of know-
how required to bring those dreams into actuality. Good administration has
two distinct targets 1. To perpetuate an existing company, culture, or
society. 2. To make planning become actuality. Given a base on which to
operate, which is to say land, people, equipment and a culture, one needs a
good administrative pattern of some sort just to maintain it. Thus I and 2
above become 2 only. The plan is "to continue the existing entity". No
company or country continues unless one continues to put it there. Thus an
administrative system of some sort, no matter how crude, is necessary to
perpetuate any group or any subdivision of a group. Even a king or headman
or manager who has no other supporting system to whom one can bring
disputes about land or water or pay is an administrative system. The
foreman of a labour gang that only loads trucks has an astonishingly
complex administrative system at work. Companies and countries do not work
just because they are there or because they are traditional. They are
continuously put there by one or another form of administration. When a
whole system of admin moves out or gets lost or forgotten, collapse occurs
unless a new or substitute system is at once moved into place. Changing the
head of a department, much less a general manager and much, much less a
ruler, can destroy a portion or the whole since the old system, unknown,
disregarded or forgotten, may cease and no new system which is understood
is put in its place. Frequent transfers within a company or country can
keep the entire group small, disordered and confused, since such transfers
destroy what little administration there might have been. Thus, if
administrative shifts or errors or lack can collapse any type of group, it
is vital to know the basic subject of organization. Even if the group is at
effect-which is to say originates nothing but only defends in the face of
threatened disaster, it still must plan. And if it plans, somehow it must
get the plan executed or done. Even a simple situation of an attacked
fortress has to be defended by planning and doing the plan, no matter how
crude. The order, "Repel the invader who is storming the south wall," is
the result of observation and planning no matter how brief or unthorough.
Getting the south wall defended occurs by some system of administration
even if it only consists of sergeants hearing the order and pushing their
men to the south wall. A company with heavy debts has to plan even if it is
just to stall off creditors. ^.nd some administrative system has to exist
even to do only that. The terrible dismay of a young leader who plans a
great and powerful new era only to find himself dealing with old and weak
faults, is attributable not to his "foolish ambition" or "lack of reality"
but to his lack of organizational know-how. Even elected presidents or
prime ministers of democracies are victims of such terrible dismay. They do
not, as is routinely asserted, "go back on their campaign promises" or
"betray the people". They, as well as their members of parliament, simply
lack the rudiments of organizational know-how. They cannot put their
campaign promises into effect not because they are too high flown but
because they are politicians not administrators. To some men it seems
enough to dream a wonderful dream. Just because they dreamed it they feel
it should now take place. They become very provoked when it does not occur.
Whole nations, to say nothing of commercial firms or societies or groups,
have spent decades in floundering turmoil because the basic dreams and
plans were never brought to fruition. Whether one is planning for the
affluence of the Appalachian Mountains or a new loading shed closer to the
highway, the gap between the plan and the actuality will be found to be
lack of administrative know-how. Technical ignorance, finance, even lack of
authority and unreal planning itself are none Of them true barriers between
planning and actuality.
____________________
Thus, we come to the exact most basic steps that comprise
administration. First is OBSERVATION. From beginning to end observation
must serve both those in charge and any others who plan. When observation
is lacking, then planning itself as well as any and all progress can become
unreal and orders faulty and destructive. Observation in essence must be
TRUE. Nothing must muddy it or colour it as this can lead to gross errors
in action and training. Next is PLANNING itself. Planning is based on
dreams but it must be fitted to what is needed and wanted and what men can
do, even with stretched imaginations or misgivings. Planning has to be
targeted and scheduled and laid out in steps and gradients or one will be
laying railroad tracks that pass through oceans or boring tunnels in
mountains that do not exist or building penthouses without putting any
building under them to hold them up. The essence of planning is COMMUNICA
TION and the communication must be such that it can be understood and will
not be misunderstood. For unless those who oversee and those who do know
what their part of the plan is, they cannot execute their share and very
well may oversee and do quite some other action, leaving a monstrous gap
and even a structure that ate up their time and funds but now has to be
torn down. The next is SUPERVISION and supervision is dually needful. It
serves as a relay point to which plans can be communicated and from which
observations as reports can be received; and it serves as the terminal
which communicates the plans as orders and sees that they are actually
done. This gives one the genus of the Org Board as a central ordering point
which has other relay ordering points taking care of their part of the
whole plan or programme. These points are often also the points which care
for local occurrences which must be handled and their frailty is that they
become so involved with local occurrences, oddities and purely local
concerns that they do not or can not give any attention to receiving,
relaying and overseeing their part of the main plan. Then there are the
PRODUCERS who produce the service or the structure or the product required
by the plan. Many plans are marvelous in all respects but putting somebody
there to actually DO the required actions that make the plan real. The
primary fault is to use persons who already have projects and duties to
which they are committed and, with their local knowledge, see must be
continued at any cost but who are forced to abandon existing programmes or
duties to start on this new activity, solely because the new activity has
the stress given it in orders and the old activities are seemingly ordered
left alone. Old companies and old countries could be said to be "that
collection of incomplete and abandoned projects which is confused and
failing". Finally there is the USER, those who will use or benefit from the
programme when it is realized and completed. When planning fails to take
this element into account, only then can the whole programme fail utterly
for it, regardless of dreams, labor and expense, is finally seen to be of
no value anyway. Thus all great programmes begin with an understanding or a
survey of what is needed and wanted and a nose and value count of those who
will use it and a costing action in time, labor, materials and finance,
compared to the value of it, even if only aesthetic, of those who will use
it in any way if only to know they have it or to be proud of it or to feel
better or stronger because they have done it.
____________________
Thus one gets the points which are the true administrative points: 1.
OBSERVATION even down to discovering the users and what is needed and
wanted. 2. PLANNING which includes imaginative conception and intelligent
timing, Targeting and drafting of the plans so they can be communicated and
assigned. 3. COMMUNICATING which includes receiving and understanding plans
and their portion and relaying them to others so that they can be
understood. 4. SUPERVISION which sees that that which is communicated is
done in actuality. 5. PRODUCTION which does the actions or services which
are planned, communicated and supervised. 6. USERS by which the product or
service or completed plan is used.
______________________
Administrative Systems or organizations which lack at least the
rudiments of the above system will not bring off the dream and will
accumulate an enormous lot of uncompleted actions. Not a few failures,
bankruptcies, overthrows and revolutions have occurred because one or all
of the above points were awry in an existing organization. The amount of
heroic executive overwork which comes from the omission of one or more of
these vital essential points accounts for the ulcers which are the
occupational disease of those in charge. When some or all these points are
awry or gone, an executive or ruler or his minister is reduced to an
anxiety which can only watch for the symptoms of bankruptcy or attack or
revolt. Even if so reduced, an executive who fends off disaster while
getting in a system which satisfies the above points has an enormously
bettered chance of winning at long last.
______________________
The dual nature of an administrative system or an organization now
becomes plain. Let us pry apart I and 2 above. The effort to hold an
existing organization together is really different than trying to get a
plan into actuality. In practice one has an organization of some sort. It
has functions and it has local concerns and problems. And it has programmes
and actions from past control centrals or which were locally generated. To
push in upon this plans which, no matter how well conceived or intentioned,
are additional to its load will cause a great deal of confusion, incomplete
projects left dangling and general upset. To place new programmes into
action, two prior actions are necessary A. Put in a whole new system
paralleling the old existing system. B. Survey the old system and its
existing programmes to preserve them, eradicate them or combine them with
the new plans. To leave A and B undone is to court disaster. Whether one is
aware of the old programmes or the old organization or not THEY REMAIN AND
WILL CONTINUE even if only as a pile of undone, unsorted papers nobody
knows where to file or as a pile of odd unfinished masonry some future
generation can't identify or will identify with scorn of administrations in
general. New leaders are sometimes looked upon as a worse scourge than a
foreign enemy and new patterns of rule are often subjected to overthrow
simply because they did not, out of ignorance or laziness, do A and B
above. One sometimes finds a company unit or a military officer left in
some unheard of place for years, at continuing expense, guarding or
nibbling at some project in a bewildered or philosophic fashion. The
activity remained unremembered, unhandled when a new broom and new planners
entered the scene. This can get so bad that a company or a nation's
resources can be broken to bits. The old plans, disorganized, not known,
discredited, are superseded by new plans and new ambitions. The old plans
are in the road of the new plans and the new plans prevent old plans from
completing. The result is an impasse. And the men in charge, even at the
level of junior executives, become even more puzzled and bewildered than
the workers and begin to believe no new plans can ever be done, blame the
ignorance of the populace and the cruelty of fate and give up. All they had
to do was put in a complete new parallel system as in the I to 6 outline
above for their new plans and to meanwhile preserve and continue the old
system while they survey for preservation, eradication or combination of
it. It is sometimes even good sense to continue old projects to completion
currently with new projects just to maintain stability in the company or
country and somehow find new finance and new people for the new plans. It
is often far less costly than to simply confuse everything. Furthermore,
all NEW and untried plans should have PILOT PROJECTS which by test and use
must be successful before one incorporates them and their new workers into
the old system as a parallel dependable activity. A "chicken in every pot"
as a campaign promise could easily succeed if organized as in I to 6 above.
_______________________
There is a lot to organization. It requires trained administrators who
can forward the programmes. But a "trained" administrator who does not
grasp the principles of organization itself is only a clerk. At this
current writing Man has not had administrative training centers where
actual organization was taught. It was learned by "experience" or by
working in an organization that was already functioning. But as the
principles were not the same company to company and nation to nation, the
differences of background experiences of any set of administrators differed
to such a degree that no new corps could be assembled as a team. Thus it
was said to require a quarter to a half a century to make a company. But
the number of ineffective bureaucracies and national failures which existed
stated clearly that there were too few skilled administrators and too few
training activities. Man's happiness and the longevity of companies and
states apparently depend upon organizational know-how. Hiring specialized
experts to get one out of trouble is a poor substitute for knowing what it
is all about in the first place. Organization is actually a simple subject,
based on a few basic patterns which if applied produce success. If one
would dream and see his dreams an actuality, one must also be able to
organize and to train organizational men who will make those dreams come
true.
L. RON HUBBARD Founder
LRH:rs.ei.rd Copyright c 1969 by L.Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 23 OCTOBER 1969 Remimeo PROGRAMMING (Reissue of
HCOB 12 Sept 1959; refer also to HCO Pol 4 Dee 1966 "Admin Know-How -
Expansion, Theory of Policy" and HCO Pol 24 Dee 1966 Issue II "How to
Programme an Org".)
Dianetics and Scientology have never suffered from lack of programmes.
There have always been programmes. And there will always be better
programmes and maybe for dissemination purposes, the PERFECT programme. But
what happens to all these programmes? Alas, I found out the facts of this
some years ago, and out of it came the organizational pattern which is
working so splendidly in Central Orgs. But the facts that I found out all
had to do with execution of programmes. We get a wonderful idea. It's a
slayer. It will tear the tops right off the skyscrapers and send them in
for a book. And months later we wonder what happened to this marvellous
programme. Well, I'll tell you what happened. Nobody did it. That's the
swansong of almost every programme that gets thought up. It was great, but
nobody did it.... And before you think I'm being critical of all the
Staffs, I'll give you the rest of my findings on this subject. Programmes
didn't get done because everybody was so overloaded with what they were
already doing that they didn't have a chance to start the new programme no
matter how good it was. Programmes were already in the run. Many of these
were so fundamental-such as sale of books or answering letters to incoming
preclears and students - that nobody could start on the new programme. And
as a result the new programme didn't get started no matter how marvellous
it seemed to be. The reason Executives used to keep pulling people off post
all the time was this thing programming. The Executive had, he thought, a
better idea or was trying to carry out an old idea. And to get it going he
would draft the whole staff to do it and the basic programmes would go
begging. Do you know that nearly every function of a Central Org was at one
time a brand new wonderful programme? Well, it was. And this gradually
sifting out of activities brought us to a rather final form with one more
step to go and that step is programmes, a Department of Programmes. A
Department which can carry through new or stunt programmes without bringing
the whole place in ruins by tearing everybody off their standard
programmes. Programming is important enough to pay a lot of attention to.
And there is a lot of gen about it. And the gen all adds up to no matter
how many programmes you have, each one consists of certain parts. And if
you don't assemble those parts and run the programme in an orderly fashion,
it just won't spark off. These are some of the principles about programmes.
And you had better have them because your new HAS Co-Audit Course is a
programme and has to be done like a successful programme. And your
preclears are a programme and have to be done like a programme. If you
don't know these facts of life, here they are: MAXIM ONE: Any idea no
matter if badly executed is better than no idea at all. MAXIM TWO: A
programme to be effective must be executed. MAXIM THREE: A programme put
into action requires guidance. MAXIM FOUR: A programme running without
guidance will fail and is better left undone. If you haven't got the time
to guide it, don't do it: put more steam behind existing programmes because
it will flop. MAXIM FIVE: Any programme requires some finance. Get the
finance into sight before you start to fire, or have a very solid guarantee
that the programme will produce finance before you execute it. MAXIM SIX: A
programme requires attention from somebody. An untended programme that is
everybody's child will become ajuvenile delinquent. MAXIM SEVEN: The best
programme is the one that will reach the greatest number of dynamics and
will do the greatest good on the greatest number of dynamics. And that, my
people who want to become victims by going broke, includes dynamic one as
well as dynamic four. MAXIM EIGHT: Programmes must support themselves
financially. MAXIM NINE: Programmes must ACCUMULATE interest and bring in
other assistance by virtue of the programme interest alone or they will
never grow. MAXIM TEN: A programme is a bad programme if it detracts from
programmes which are already moving successfully or distracts staff people
or associates from work they are already doing. Doing that is adding up to
successful execution of other programmes. Let us now take a squint at this
all in one piece. Wrong example: We decide to run an ad in the Hatmakers'
Weekly to attract people into the PE Course. We place the ad. We forget the
time this special course is to start. We have nobody there to answer the
phone on inquiries on the Course. We have nobody there to greet the people
and make them feel at home when they arrive. We have nobody to instruct the
Course. We get a bill for monies three weeks later that we can't pay. Right
example: We decide to hit the hatmaker trade as a source of PE. We rule out
seven other programmes in favour of this one. We have a staff meeting on it
and gen everybody in on the existence of this programme. We see that we
have made a lot of money from Co-Audit enrolments and we earmark this to
pay for the advert, for the salary of the person who will run the
programme. We appoint a special person to administer this programme. When
the advert has been placed and appears, our person appointed to it goes on
to it full time. Reception is genned again to send all hatmaker calls to
this person and to refer to this person all hatmaker bodies. All persons
who may also be acting as Reception are genned with this data. The person
appointed doesn't sit back to wait for the business to come in. This person
reaches for hatmakers with letters and phone calls. This same person that
has been contacted by the hatmakers is then on deck the zero hour evening
to greet them all and get them into their seats and make sure the
instructor is there and to instruct it himself if no instructor appears. If
the programme is sweepingly successful in terms of new enrollees, then we
make sure we leave the person appointed for it in the first place right on
duty pushing hatmakers into the PE. And we have a programme. And it was
successful. And we got somewhere. A pitiful wrong example of the above was
when I was running the first Am College PE as the experimental set-up some
years ago. We started to get in longshoremen by the squad. And they brought
in other longshoremen. The person in charge thought longshoremen were low
cast and tried to get intellectuals instead, thus switching off the
programme. You never saw a programme dwindle quite so fast as the
longshoremen did. The correct action would have been to notice that
longshoremen were responding heavily and to put somebody maybe even out of
their ranks onto the payroll to pressure away at longshoremen. A million
pound programme was let go up in a puff of nowhere. A wonderfully right
example is the Director of Processing staff auditor set-up of a Central
Organization. That was once just a programme. It prospered. It's still with
us. Every field auditor looks at it with envy and snarls and tries to copy
it. But he doesn't programme. He is doing everything else in the shop. He
can't programme a special clinic drill with his attention everywhere at
once. It's now thoroughly against the law in a Central Organization to let
a Director of Processing take preclears. That's how far it goes. And we get
wonderful results and all is well and the only squawks you hear about HGCs
are from pure green-eyed jealousy or maybe an occasional real goof that the
Central Organization jumped on days before anybody else did. Programming
requires execution. It requires carry-through. It requires judgement enough
to know a good programme and carry it on and on and to recognize a bad one
and drop it like hot bricks. There's nothing wrong with the will to do
amongst Scientologists. Now let's see if we can't up dissemination by
adherence to good, steady programming that wins.
L. RON HUBBARD Founder LRH: rs.rd Copyright c 1959, 1969 by L. Ron
Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
[Note: This Policy Letter was also earlier issued as HCO P/L 20 August
1969 with abbreviation of the words Director of Processing to D of P,
Organization to Org, Preclears to PCs, and Department to Dept. The above
issue eliminated these abbreviations.] HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 5 MARCH 1965 Issue II Remimeo
POLICY: SOURCE OF
According to Webster's New World Dictionary:
POLICY: Political wisdom or cunning; diplomacy; prudence; artfulness.
Wise, expedient or crafty conduct or management. Any governing principle,
plan or course of action.
The last definition is the one we use. According to the World Book
Encyclopaedia Dictionary, the one we most use (published by Field
Enterprises Educational Corporation, Merchandise Mart Plaza, Chicago, 54,
Illinois, USA):
POLICY: A plan of action; way of management. Practical wisdom;
prudence. Political skill or shrewdness. Obsolete-the conduct of public
affairs; government.
The sense in which we use policy is the rules and administrative
formulas by which we agree on action and conduct our affairs. A "policy
letter" is one which contains one or more policies and their explanation
and application. It is issued by the HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
, is written by L. Ron Hubbard or written (more rarely) for him, has
the agreement of the International Board and is basic organizational law in
organizations. A "policy letter" is not Scientology org policy unless
written or authorized by L. Ron Hubbard and passed as a resolution or
covered by blanket resolution of the International Board and issued or
published by an HCO. It is not policy if any of those steps are missing.
The International Board is composed of three Board Members, L. Ron Hubbard,
Chairman, Mary Sue Hubbard, Secretary, and Marilynn Routsong, Treasurer. It
is the controlling board of Scientology. The Chairman, HUBBARD
COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
and HCO Secretaries and staffs compose Division I of the International
Board and all orgs. The Secretary and all Organization Secretaries (US and
Saint Hill) or Association Secretaries (Commonwealth and South Africa) and
their staffs compose Division 2 of the International Board and all orgs.
The Treasurer, Assistant Treasurers, all accounting executives, and
assistants for Materiel and their staffs compose Division 3 of the
International Board and all orgs. Policy for all divisions and orgs is made
as above. There are no other boards or board members, individual board
members, officers or secretaries with the power of issuing policy. Boards
issue Resolutions. Individual board members or officers can issue
directives, general orders, and orders. These expire if not re-issued as
policy. Other officers issue Administrative Directives in place of policy
letters but these may only forward policy. Secretarial Executive Director
orders apply mainly to personnel or local conditions, expire in one year if
not stated to expire earlier, may only last one year in any event. Policy
letters apply broadly to all orgs and Scientologists without exception.
Almost all policy has been developed by actual experience. The only way
policy can be changed is by writing up a policy letter in full and sending
it to L. Ron Hubbard for approval or disapproval. Policies cover hats,
duties, lines, procedures, rules, laws and all other aspects of Scientology
activity except technology. Technology is covered in HCO Bulletins. HCO
Bulletins are written by or (more rarely) for L. Ron Hubbard and are issued
by HCO and HCO Secretaries. They do not require sanction by the
International Board. No one else may issue or authorize an HCO Bulletin.
HCO Bulletins are recommended technical data. Certificates are awarded on
the data contained in them and violation of it can therefore cause a
suspension of the certificate. This is the main power of the HCO Bulletin.
An HCO Bulletin becomes policy only if mentioned in a policy letter. A book
may become policy if made so by a policy letter.
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HCO Policy Letters are printed or (more commonly) mimeographed in
green ink on white paper. This colour combination may not be used for any
other releases in Scientology. Reprinted policy letters sometimes appear in
magazines in black ink on white paper but they are not the original. HCO
Bulletins are printed or mimeographed in red ink on white paper. This
colour combination may not be used for any other purpose in Scientology.
Reprinted HCO Bulletins sometimes appear in magazines in black ink on white
paper but they are not the original. Committees of Evidence are called for
in any violation of the publishing or counterfeiting of an HCO Policy
Letter or an HCO Bulletin or their colour combinations or signatures. The
only other official paper from L. Ron Hubbard and HCO is the HCO Executive
Letter, usually a direct executive order or a request for a report or data
or news or merely information. It is not policy but should be answered if
an answer is requested. It is blue ink on green paper. Using the colour
combination for any other purpose or counterfeiting one calls for a
Committee of Evidence. Sec EDs and HCO Executive Letters are basically LRH
comm lines but are used by International Board Officers also if authorized.
The other Divisions (2 and 3) have other means of comm, with other colour
flashes.
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If it is not in an HCO Policy Letter it is not policy. HCO Policy
Letters do not expire until cancelled or changed by later HCO Policy
Letters. No officer or Scientology personnel may set aside policy even when
requesting revision.
L. RON HUBBARD
LRH:jw.rd Copyright c 1965 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 13 MARCH 1965
Gen Non Remimeo
DIVISIONS 1,2,3
THE STRUCTURE OF ORGANIZATION WHAT IS POLICY?
The only reason anyone fights good policy is they're too stupid or too
inexperienced in an org to understand it. Unable to grasp it, they are too
lazy to work at trying. They miss words, don't see reasons, imagine
situations are otherwise and in general can't grasp it. So they try not to
use it or dream up their own. People with bad study histories can't grasp
policy. For policy also follows the rules of study. Therefore never put a
person with bad study history on a key executive post. They can't grasp
policy as they can't study it either. Only personnel with quick study
histories, fast passages through courses, can be counted on to put in an
org or department pattern and keep it wheeling. The others are too involved
in their own troubles and too imperceptive to be of any use in making an
org boom. Such people do however sometimes have a use even when not
straightened up. They do well in pioneer areas where they have to do it all
off the cuff and where their very inability to accept anything causes them
also to refuse defeats and discouragements. Their inability to grasp a
situation is often of benefit when bravery is required. This does not
however excuse efforts to make them more capable and as they grow older and
more experienced, they will also become brave and quick and will follow
policy. Following policy is a matter of grasping situations and knowing
policy well enough to apply the right policy to the right situation-where
no policy covers, an experienced, quick person can easily extend the idea
of general policy to cover it, knowing it isn't covered. The dull person
has never even grasped basic general policy and so confronted with usual or
unusual situations alike, can't find any policy to cover anything and so
acts in any old way. On the other hand, policy, to fit and be of benefit,
must be itself born out of great insight and familiarity with the facts.
Government policy is usually written by clerks who have never heard a shot
fired in anger. Therefore almost all current government policy is
completely silly. Nobody can apply it as it fits nothing and just gets
everyone in trouble. Therefore a quick person with good judgement in the
field and in the real situation can get through only by following his own
policies and insights. This is easily mistaken for a dull person acting
against policy that is good. But even dull policies provide wide agreement
as a basis for work co-ordination and so something happens on a larger
scale. Individual policy making on every post is the definition of chaos.
Thus even bad policy is usually more workable than individual policy and
can make stronger orgs. Brilliant policy based on experience of course can
cause orgs to zoom. We conclude then that where we see a person constantly
off policy in an area that has worked well when on policy, that we must
act. Where we have a large organizational scope we must have workable
policy that is followed. For just lacking policy good or bad and lacking
its being followed, we stay small by definition. NO POLICY EXISTING MAKES
SMALL NON-EXPANDING DEPARTMENTS OR ORGS. POLICY GOOD OR BAD EXISTING BUT
NOT FOLLOWED MAKES CHAOTIC DEPARTMENTS OR ORGS AND CAUSES SHRINKAGE. GOOD
POLICY BASED ON ACTUAL SITUATIONS EXPERIENCED FOLLOWED WELL MAKES AN
EXPANDING DEPARTMENT, ORG OR CIVILIZATION. The smaller the org, unit or
department the less policy is needed. Reversely, the less policy is used
the smaller will become the org, unit or department. One can always safely
assume, when policy is available, that non expansion is the direct result
of the policy remaining unknown or not followed. The steps to take are
therefore:
Expansion formula:
1. PROVIDE GOOD POLICY. 2. MAKE IT EASILY KNOWABLE. 3. BE STRENUOUS IN
MAKING SURE IT IS FOLLOWED.
This is the most broad possible formula for expansion. Profitable
expansion of a unit, department, org, company, empire or civilization
depends utterly on the above formula being applied. If it is well applied,
literally thousands of other impeding factors drop into unimportance. This
applies to anything, even a person, but the bigger the number of
individuals involved the more rigorously it has to be followed. The bigger
the size of the activity concerned (the more people involved in it) the
more damage can result from failures to follow policy. Thus orgs or
companies which halt expansion mysteriously only need to have more policy,
or to make policy more easily available or to be more vigorous in requiring
it to be followed. Policy is a guiding thing. It is composed of ideas to
make a game, procedures to be followed in eventualities and deterrents to
departures. The basic policy of an activity must be the defining and
recommending of a successful and desirable basic purpose. Take a Navy, to
get a more distant comparison. If a Navy has the basic purpose of defending
a nation and its citizens and expanding their scope, and if the policy is
the guiding principle behind all other policies and if these in turn are
developed from experience and made known and followed, then oddly enough
even new inventions or new philosophies of state could not prevent that
Navy from doing its job and expanding the nation. The US Navy might very
well have won the war with Japan in its six weeks if those who headed it in
Washington had not been mere political puppets subject to every
Congressional and Presidential wlum. The text books were very clear about
what the Navy should do. But King, Nimitz and Short, the Admirals involved,
had been chosen by wlum, favoritism and capacity for liquor, not by raw
statistics of "good Navy activity". They had been trained at an Academy
where the basic principles of "Good Navy" and raw statistics on personnel
had not been used to choose an Academy head or Instructors. So King, Nimitz
and Short, as Admirals listened to current political rumours or whims
(being only confirmed in political not naval policy) and so let Pearl
Harbour happen. How? Their own naval text books said "During times of
negotiation with an unfriendly state, the position of the fleet should be
at sea, whereabouts unknown." That is line one of the Navy textbook on
Tactics and Strategy. Where was it? In Pearl Harbour during many days of
hostile negotiation between Roosevelt and the Japanese-the most dangerous
naval rival. Where were King and Nimitz? At a cocktail party with the
politicians. Where was Short? Giving his all ashore, having given his men
full weekend liberty and having ordered all ammunition stowed below for a
coming Admiral's inspection. So Pearl Harbour could happen. But did the
humans learn? No. True, Short, acting on his Washington orders
notwithstanding, was removed and eventually court-martialed. But King and
Nimitz took over the whole Navy for more than four heartbreaking years of
"promote by political whim" "what policy?" and defeat in battle after
battle until aircraft turned the tide of war and the army and an atom bomb
finally finished it. Now the Navy is really no more. A few subs. A few
patrol ships. The rest in mothballs. People think the Navy is small now
because of new weapons. No, it is small because it (a) didn't clearly
express its basic purpose, (b) didn't educate its people well in the policy
it did have, (c) let political opinion shift it about, (d) chose its
officers by rumour, cabal and social presence and (e) forgot its texts when
the emergency loomed. Result, long war, now no Navy with anything-officers
palling with men, ships in the bone yard. Could the Navy have done its job
in 1941? Yes. Had its original policies regarding officer training and
selection been followed ruthlessly despite all politics over the years.
King, Nimitz and Short would not have been in charge or would have acted by
policy had they been. The fleet would have been at sea during negotiations
and the strike on Pearl Harbour would have been a Jap bust. The fleet would
have been there to knock out the Jap in his own home ports. The war might
have ended with Japan in the first six weeks. The point is not whether it
is good or bad to have a Navy. The point is that here is an actual
organization and an actual occurrence. Therefore one can learn that: An
individual, species, organism, organization, to succeed, survive and expand
in influence must have a formulated BASIC PURPOSE. To keep beings from
growing, the reactive bank is almost entirely made up of false and booby
trapped purposes. Thus we can see that, by its having been impeded so
thoroughly in past ages, the idea of having a personal or organizational or
group basic purpose is an extremely valuable one. Without one expressed or
unexpressed, a being or an organization or group without one doesn't grow
but shrinks and becomes weak-in this universe nothing can remain long in an
unchanging state. Given a potentially successful basic purpose that is
acceptable to the being, organization or group, one can then formulate
POLICY. POLICY is a rule or procedure or a guidance which permits the BASIC
PURPOSE to succeed. The basic purpose runs through time. When it is
impeded, distracted from, not complied with, thwarted or stopped, a state
of failure of the basic purpose occurs in greater or lesser degree.
Sometimes challenges to it cause it to strengthen but only when the
challenges are consistently overcome. A being, organism, organization,
group or species or race learns in forwarding its basic purpose or meeting
challenges to its basic purpose certain lessons. Certain procedures or
courses of action, rules or laws were conceived at times of stress and some
of them were successful. Those that were not successful or helped the
opposition were bad. Those that were successful forwarded of course the
basic purpose and were good. The successful ideas or procedures that
assisted the basic purpose were then dignified by the status of proper
ideas, acts, procedure or policy. Those that were unsuccessful in assisting
the basic purpose became bad policy. Ideas or procedures that distracted
from or balked the basic purpose were called offenses. Things, groups,
other determinisms that challenged or sought to stop or refused to comply
with the basic purpose became enemies or opposition. Therefore Policy is
derived from successful experience in forwarding the basic purpose,
overcoming opposition or enemies, ending distractions and letting the basic
purpose flow and expand. Policy laid down which is thought up independent
of experience in similar situations is either the result of great foresight
and is successful or it is simply stupidity, in that it seeks to handle
situations which will never exist or if they do, won't be important. Policy
based solely on bad rumours, unverified, which may or may not reflect
actual existing conditions or which is laid down at the insistence of some
self-interested person or minority without taking the rest of the group
into account is very destructive policy simply because it does not match
the conditions which actually exist and so, in itself, may impede or
distract from the basic purpose. An example of this is legislation by
legislators who, otherwise uninformed, act because of pressure groups,
minority riots or simply sensational press that seeks not legislation but
simply to feed the appetite of a disaster hungry public. If bad policy or
laws or actions based on rumour rather than raw facts become too frequent
and general, then the basic purpose of a being, organization or group
becomes itself distracted, smothered and forgotten and the result is
shrinkage, loss of power, death and oblivion. Although it is often too late
when bad policies or pressure group laws have been the order of the day to
slash them all from the books and exhume the basic purpose, the action of
sweeping away unreal, inapplicable and impeding laws and policies which
were based originally on rumour and bad sources can have the effect of
rejuvenation on a being, a group or an organization which has begun to die.
Periodic sweep-outs of antiquated and didactic laws (rather than general
concepts and sub-purposes) must be undertaken by a being, organization,
group or race or species. However, such an action must be carefully done,
selecting only those laws or rules which came into being because of
pressure groups or infrequent enemies or which were derived from no
experience. And before throwing any policy away one must carefully examine
its history to see if it is still restraining an enemy or forwarding some
sub-purpose. For throwing away a lot of lessons could also collapse the
forward thrust of the basic purpose which has "gotten this far for some
reason." SUB-PURPOSES are the purposes of the various sections or parts of
the being, organism, group, race or species which forward the basic
purpose. They must amplify, qualify and/or describe the action or procedure
of the part of the whole in a brief and crisp way so as to hold them in
function in their support of the basic purpose. They could also be called,
the PURPOSE OF A PART OF THE WHOLE, or as we use them, the purpose of a
post, unit, department or an org with a special function. When one hears of
the PURPOSE of his hat or section, unit, department, org or Division, he is
observing the SUB-PURPOSE of a part of the whole organism which is vital to
the action of forwarding the BASIC PURPOSE of the movement. Indeed he may
never know what the BASIC PURPOSE really is and only know the SUB - PURPOSE
of his own hat, section, unit or department. However, by studying the
various SUBPURPOSES of several hats or sections he could probably figure
out the SUB-PURPOSE of the Department and by studying the various SUB -
PURPOSES of the departments of an org he could probably guess at the BASIC
PURPOSE of the whole being or organization or movement. If study of SUB-
PURPOSES either fails to locate any or ends in being unable to relate them
into any large PURPOSE, one is of course studying a disorganized movement.
One can change a SUB-PURPOSE (cautiously indeed) or add parts with new SUB-
PURPOSES, and leave a movement (a) unaffected, (b) increased in scope, or
(c) decreased in size and influence. One can, up to a point, add Policies
on and on, limited only by the ability to get them known and leave an
organization or movement (a) unaffected, (b) increased in readiness to meet
emergencies, or (c) crippled. The wisdom of the policy and whether or not
it was a successful solution to some actually possible confusion or crisis
determines whether or not it should be added or deleted. Foresight plays a
large role in formulating a SUB-PURPOSE or a Policy. These two are never
wholly the product of chance or experience; indeed they may be 80% wise
foresight and 20% experience and still be good useable SUB-PURPOSES or
Policies. Twentieth Century Science sought to discount wisdom entirely and
beings and organizations were educated or developed with no SUB-PURPOSES
whatever and all policies were developed either by clerks, teachers or
legislators inexperienced in any part of life or were taken from past
experience only with no refinement of any wisdom. The failures of
governments and systems and races in the first half of the Twentieth
Century were wholesale and the wars frequent and senseless. Personal,
state, or organizational or social chaos results from adding parts with no
well defined SUB-PURPOSES, enforcing Policies based on rumour or taken from
the data of mere theoreticians in their ivory towers, an irresponsible
press or legislators in their self-interested heads and smoke-filled rooms.
A study of how the pressure groups, clerks, theoreticians and irresponsible
press and duly elected but completely unselected and uneducated legislators
destroyed individualism, states, businesses, civilizations and races would
be only a study of how not to organize and survive, how to ignore, abandon
or discredit all basic purposes, sub-purposes and successful policies. The
scene was one of indescribable chaos that filled one with protest and
dismay. If there was a wrong way to do things it became the order of the
day and youth went into a complete apathy, purposeless and drifting and the
world began to die a little each day, the mental hospitals became flooded,
life ceased to be any fun at all. Things are not always like this and
indeed don't have to be. Mismanagement or misgovernment of self, an
organization, group or state would then consist of failing to forward the
BASIC PURPOSE, not grasping and specifying SUB-PURPOSES, and not
experiencing and formulating policies to strengthen successful ideas or
actions that forward the Basic and Sub-Purposes and impede ideas or actions
that retard them and not recognizing actual enemies or oppositions or
planning and carrying out successful campaigns to handle them. Failing in
any of these actions the individual, group, organization, state,
civilization, race or species will falter, fail and die. Recognizing the
Basic Purpose, supplementing it with Sub-Purposes for the parts of the
whole, and learning and enforcing the policies which bring success,
spotting actual enemies or oppositions and planning and carrying out
campaigns to overcome them, removing distractions, rewarding the forwarding
of Basic Purpose and Sub-Purpose and penalizing actions which retard, an
individual, group, organization, civilization, race or species survives,
gets better, lives on higher and higher planes. The game of life has the
formula of having and forwarding a Basic Purpose and supplemental Sub-
Purposes. This is done by the Formula of Policy which consists of: 1.
Conceiving, recognizing, testing and codifying successful ideas, actions
and procedures that forward the Basic Purpose and retard its opposition; 2.
Making these policies known and in greater or lesser degree understood; and
3. Getting these policies followed. If in (3) policy is to be followed,
there must be discipline, but even more important, there must be ways of
choosing personnel other than by sloppy rumour or social presence.
Personnel can only be chosen on raw statistics supported by ample data
containing figures. If the raw data is good, then one assumes that basic
purpose is being forwarded as it is meeting with success. The raw data
already has a curve in it as it is tabulated against the success of basic
policy. So the person whose raw data is good must have been forwarding
basic purpose, therefore must be either a screaming genius at originating
ideas that forward the Basic Purpose or a wizard at knowing, applying and
following policy. Either way he or she is worth all the diamonds of
Kimberley. Such a person will inevitably rise in the organization or group
if raw data alone is observed in selecting and promoting personnel. If the
person is a screaming genius at originating policy and has not made enough
errors to reduce his successful raw data, and has stayed on-policy
otherwise so as not to reduce the effectiveness of those around him, he
will eventually rise to a level which makes policy and the whole
organization will benefit. Similarly a person who grasps and follows policy
very well and forwards the Basic Purpose well and who is very capable will
sooner or later rise to a position of trust that safeguards against
sweeping changes that will retard or crash the group or organization and so
is vital at higher levels. Out of these two general types of being one gets
the leadership levels of a movement. But they will never arrive at all if
those in charge ever use anything but statistics in judging them since
their very success will cause enough cabal to influence high levels against
them if these high levels ever use fragmentary rumours or opinions in
handling personnel. RAW DATA means assembled but otherwise unevaluated
data. It is "uncooked" and "unflavoured" and "untouched by human hands".
It, in short, is uncontaminated or unchanged data. It is native and natural
and unspoiled. And the only data that answers those qualifications is
statistical data. "How many or how few and how much or how little in what
time." That is the only data that a senior official in a group,
organization or state ever dare use in selecting and promoting personnel.
The "state" of the person, the "result of his tests", "the examination
figure" are all useless to a senior official deciding upon who to promote
or pass over. His decision will be wrong in exact proportion that he
permits opinion to enter and raw data to drop out. Introducing opinion into
personnel selection is a study of "how crazy can one get." How much liquor
a man can hold, how acceptable socially is his wife, his breath, his taste
in ties are all completely disrelated data. For how does anyone know at the
top really what the environment is now like at the bottom? Maybe that
lovely music room-board room requires a pink necktie, a purring wife and
endless capacity for drink, but is that the organization's environment? It
is not! Maybe the organization's environment demands an allergy to liquor,
a complete tart for a wife, overwhelming breath and neon ties. And maybe
tomorrow's board level will too! The world changes, it does not become
softer. Only some people do. The psychiatric or school test alike are
written and administered by people in ivory towers who again have no
contact with the organization's real environment. Statistical as they may
try to be, such tests are utterly worthless. They are not on-the-job
statistics. They are classroom or laboratory statistics. They are
definitely cooked data. And when used for personnel and promotion they cook
a lot of careers. And by putting eggheads on post, they cook a lot of parts
of an org if not the whole thing. They have some small value in determining
someone's quickness or slowness, but the conditions are too unreal and the
necessity level of real environmental emergency is missing. It's like a
plane crash synthesized in bed. No jolt. So, poor (but not the worst) of
cooked data. Maybe the working environment demands a dumb guy who is too
slow to panic at awesome futures! Yet bright enough to see what policy
applies. When men with small experience in it can qualify to run the world,
they can only then administer tests to advise who should run it. Only
statistics that represent action and accomplishment are fair tests of
ability and who deserves promotion or the gate. Therefore the only
organization that is a sound organization is one WHOSE EVERY ACTIVITY can
be tabulated by statistics. If you wish to reorganize you must do so with
an eye toward "Can this post (dept or Division) be statisticized?" Any body
of people such as "the typing pool" or "the instructors" must be broken
down to individuals one way or another. One has three things then that must
be tabulatable: (a) the individual, (b) the part and (c) the whole. Each of
these must be so organized as to be capable of being seen through
accomplishment or lack of it. Only this is fair organization. All other
types are unfair, will not select out leaders or good workers and subject
these to the enturbulence of the lazy or those with other philosophies to
fry. If you have any other type, people are promoted or fired by rumour,
back-biting or common brag and either type has only liability. In using
them one destroys empires and every great civilization that is dead died
because opinion and rumour were the key causes of personnel changes. It is
unfair to every decent staff member to have an org that cannot be tabulated
by relative income, work or traffic. The common way of the dead and dying
past was to put some fellow in charge and then shoot him or reward him if
things went wrong or well and neglect the rest. This works unless a society
only protects the man at the bottom and routinely weakens the man at the
top. When that happens, the system is useless. Only by chance do things go
well. So chance is added to rumour as the means of promotion or the gate.
No wonder the Asiatic, a member of our oldest civilizations, says "Fate!"
and explains it all. He had too many rulers who ruled by rumour or chance
or didn't rule at all. And so the power died. Only when you can find out
who did which or why can you be just. And only when an organization can be
fully viewed top to bottom through raw data of how much or how little can
individual show be rewarded and individual nuisance be weeded out. REALITY
Reality in policy, in orders, in advice depends upon either great insight
or great experience. Combining both gives great success. But no matter how
great the insight may be, viewing the actual condition is a vital step to
resolving it. Remote solutions not based on experience or close inspection
are usually unreal. Therefore no orders should ever be issued without data
and experience and insight. Data comes from tabulation of actions and
amounts in organizations. Experience comes from working in similar or
parallel situations. Insight comes from the ability to observe coupled with
the courage to see and the wit to realize without any thought of personal
importance. Therefore, the soundest leadership comes from the most extended
experience and intimate knowledge of that or parallel circumstances.
Leadership without this will lack judgement. Remote leadership is best when
it itself is involved close to its hand with the same problems. Therefore
remote leadership must have under it similar organizational problems and
traffic at home that exist at the remote point. Then understanding is quick
and solutions are real. For one organization to command another, they must
be similar. Management labour problems evolve from the communication
formula "Cause-Distance-Effect with Intention at cause, Attention at
effect, and Duplication". A board room is not a machine shop. The
machinists seek to duplicate the board or refuse to. If they fail to they
always refuse to. Thus only a working org of similar pattern can command a
working org. The commanded org will always seek to follow the pattern of
the commanding org and duplicate what it thinks the commanding org consists
of. A great tension exists at all points of non-duplication. This tension
stems from the effort to duplicate. If foiled trouble or breakage will
occur at that point. Where the subordinate org is unable to duplicate what
it thinks exists at the senior org then it suffers an ARC break of greater
or smaller magnitude. Patterns, officer authority, comm lines, all must be
similar. Size is not important in this. Org pattern is. If the subordinate
org has any hope of ever attaining the size, and if the purposes, pattern
and policies are the same, that is enough. ARC will remain high, execution
will be good and expansion is assured, providing of course that the basic
purpose is good in the first place. EXPANSION All that is needed to expand
an org or its business, given a good basic purpose and an area to expand
into is the knowledge of the expansion formula: DIRECT A CHANNEL TOWARD
ATTAINMENT, PUT SOMETHING ON IT, REMOVE DISTRACTIONS, BARRIERS, NON-
COMPLIANCE AND OPPOSITION. The basic formula of Living (not Life) is:
HAVING AND FOLLOWING A BASIC PURPOSE. Thus expansion is an increase in
living. To increase living and raise tone and heighten activity one need
only apply the expansion formula to living. Clean away the barriers, non-
compliance and distractions from the basic purpose and reduce opposition
and the individual or group or org will seem more alive and indeed will be
more alive. All an executive has to do to expand a part or the whole of an
org is to divine the basic purpose, divine or issue the sub-purposes, point
out an area to expand into and then remove the distractions from, barriers
to and non - compliance with the basic purpose, and sub-purposes and put
something on the channels that augments existing impulses and expansion
will begin. It will be successful to the degree that the basic purpose is
good, the sub-purposes real and the policies are taken from real experience
and interpreted by persons facing similar current problems. By the process,
thereafter, of just removing barriers, distractions and non-compliance
expansion can be accelerated to a point where it overwhelms all hostile
efforts to contain it and the result is extremely gratifying in terms of
expansion at velocity. It seems completely magical. For life instantly
appears. One must remember to channel a basic purpose. A channel has two
boundaries, one on either side of it. These must exist in an org. They
consist of discipline of those who would distract or stray or wander or who
help the opposition or suppress the basic purpose or sub-purposes or who
cannot seem to learn or comply with policies or orders. Discipline must
only be aimed at the above and where it is random or doesn't serve to
channel, then it itself is a distraction or a barrier and will breed non-
compliance. But when entirely absent the force is let to wander and
expansion does not occur. Discipline must be precise, known, uniformly
applied and inevitable when the rules are broken. Those who do their job
welcome it as it helps keep others from preventing them from working or
acting or complying or getting their own jobs done.
L. RON HUBBARD
LRH:jw.rd Copyright c 1965 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 7 MAY 1965
Gen Non-Remimeo
CANCELLATION MIMEO DISTRIBUTION CHANGES (SEC ED DISTRIBUTION)
HCO Pol Ltr 29 April 65 is cancelled. SEC ED Distribution remains the
same as before. Putting it into the Mimeo line at Saint Hill slowed it. It
is desirable that a SEC ED is broadly distributed to a staff and that SEC
EDs of broad interest be distributed Internationally. However our old
system was best. HCO steno releases the SEC ED as fast as possible with a
seal and her initials on it. Cabled SEC EDs are instantly made up and
issued on receipt FAST. Distribute as best you can, just be sure it's
effective. On Airmail SEC EDs we'll try to send you enough for your staff.
If we don't, distribute it as broadly as you can. Keep SEC EDs off public
notice boards. Sthil staff should have SEC EDs. Secretarial Executive
Directives are explicit temporary urgent orders. Above all, SEC EDs are
fast fast FAST. Mimeo couldn't help but slow them at Saint Hill as SEC EDs
are faster than other items on the line and the traffic is heavy. We'll
solve this. Meanwhile carry on as always, with as broad a distribution to
staff only as you can get.
LTD AND GEN NON-REMIMEO SAINT HILL DISTRIBUTION All Scientologists at
Saint Hill get everything that is marked Remimeo, General Non-Remimeo and
Limited Non - Remimeo and all HCOBs. The only exception is Class VI
material or Power Process (VII) material. This is not distributed to anyone
but the persons designated such as "R6 Co-audit" (Staff Prov Cl VI) or
"Sthil R6 Students" (D Unit course students) or "Power Process Staff"
meaning Review Technical Personnel in the Qualifications Division only.
L. RON HUBBARD LRH:wmc.mh.cden Copyright c 1965 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL
RIGHTS RESERVED [Amended by HCO P/L 10 August 1966, Sec Eds, Executive
Director & Guardian, page 360.] HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 8 MAY 1965 Issue II Gen Non Remimeo FLASH COLOURS
AND DESIGNATIONS SEC EDS, FORM Secretarial Executive Director will now have
the following form: They will be on BLUE paper with BLUE ink. They will
begin with a number system as follows: Consecutive number of an area
followed by the local cable initials of the area or the zone. Example, for
Melbourne: SECED IOME. For Washington SECED IODC. For International SECED
IOINT. For a Continental zone only one would have SECED IOSA for South
Africa, meaning all orgs in South Africa. The number is the consecutive
number for that designation. The initials SECED always precede a SECED
Number. All personnel orders will now also appear in SECED form. The form
itself shall be SECRETARIAL EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR Office of LRH Number Date
(Any Addressee to which it is particularly directed.) 1. (Text with
numbered paragraphs) 2. 3.
Initials only of HCO Personnel on seal
L. RON HUBBARD
DUPLICATION The small Banda methyl alcohol duplicator should be
obtained as early as possible. It is not expensive. Telex rolls containing
Banda carbon are obtainable. Thus any Telex SEC ED need only be taken off
the telex and stamped with a seal and initialled, its carbon paper then
removed at which it will duplicate at once on the Banda duplicator. The
machine is also easily used on any colour paper for other purposes. SEC EDs
sent by mail, are sometimes done at Saint Hill ready for issue, but until a
Banda is secured, should be locally redone as a mimeo when not received in
quantity.
HCO EXECUTIVE LETTER This will now be on WHITE PAPER with BLUE INK,
using the old Info Letter flash mark to make SEC EDs easier to identify.
HCO ETHICS ORDER All Ethics Orders will now be on GOLD paper with BLUE ink.
This includes all, local Committee of Evidence issues and other matters. An
Ethics Order may only be issued by the HCO Executive Secretary or an HCO
Area Secretary. Any findings must be passed by the Office of LRH but if so
are issued as an Ethics Order colour flashed gold with blue ink. The form
of an Ethics Order will be: HCO Ethics Order Date To: From: The HCO
Secretary (or Executive Secretary) Subject: (Convening a Comm Ev, Ethics
Court, findings, summons, etc.) 1. (Text with numbered paragraphs) 2. 3.
HCO Secretary (or Executive Secretary) ETHICS INTERROGATORY An Ethics
Interrogatory is used as a despatch to carry out an investigation. It is
used to collect data to determine the facts of a situation. It is on GOLD
paper with BLUE ink. Its form is as follows: HCO DIVISION I Department of
Inspection and Reports Ethics Section Interrogation Number - Date To:
(Name of person from whom Info is desired) From: Ethics Section Officer
RETURN TO ETHICS PROMPTLY Text of Query...... (lots of space for reply)
Initial of Ethics Section Officer Any investigation is given a file number
and that same number appears on all interrogatories. QUALIFICATIONS CHITS
AND FORMS All Qualifications chits are GREY and all forms of Qualifications
are GREY. The colour of ink is usually BLACK. TECH DIVISION Chits & Forms
All Technical Division chits and forms are now GREEN with normally BLACK
ink. It is quite important for the Tech Division to use Green and the Qual
Division to use Grey paper as it makes admin between these two divisions
faster. The Tech Division must NOT use white paper on its forms as these
then tangle up with the white of HCOBs and Pol Ltrs. WHITE PAPER WHITE
mimeograph paper and RED, GREEN and BLUE ink in combination with WHITE
paper in mimeograph work is exclusively the Office of LRH and may not be
used casually in mailings or inside other divisions. Any colour of ink may
be assigned to divisions in combination with coloured papers, but never
with WHITE paper. WHITE mimeo paper identifies for a staff member HCOBs and
HCO Pol Ltrs, and will now identify HCO Exec Ltrs, Info Letters having been
abandoned. SIGNATURES When I have personally written anything only my name
may appear on it. The only exception is initials on a SEC ED. The reason
for this is that staff members could become confused as to the issuing
person. The practice of signing anything on WHITE paper with RED, GREEN or
BLUE ink that I have not myself written or dictated or personally released
has long since been abandoned and is not now done. Thus a staff member can
be sure that all current issues on white mimeograph paper or blue SEC ED
paper were in fact written by myself.
L. RON HUBBARD
LRH:wmc.rd Copyright c 1965 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 13 SEPTEMBER 1965 Issue II
St Hill only
ISSUE AUTHORITY REQUIRED FOR MIMEO
"OK needed from Issue Authority" means an OK is needed for all things
run through the mimeo machine, whether okayed previously to be mimeoed or
not.
The objects are twofold: 1. To save on mimeo paper and 2. To keep my
mimeo policy and technical lines from being jammed. If too much is put on
these lines, the line is cut just because it's too much for people to read
at the other end.
HCO Pol Ltrs, HCO Bulletins and HCO Exec Ltrs are especially my lines.
These are never "by the authority of" mimeo signatures. No Franchise info
issued by the Franchise Officer here is ever put on HCO Pol colour flash or
title. There are HCO Admin channels, other flash systems, etc, for things
that bear "by the authority of". The re-issue of a Policy Letter requires
Issue Authority Okay. Providing extra copies of anything requires Issue
Authority Okay. In addition, nobody else puts anything on HCO Pol Ltr, HCO
Bulletin or HCO Exec Ltr except myself over my own signature without any
"by the authority of". These are my own personal lines. When they appear in
orgs, they can be picked out easily from other mail and mimeos. I try to
keep the quantity down to keep from jamming people's lines. Therefore
anyone else putting traffic on these lines is unappreciated. They have
other colour flash anyway. In filing, designation of where they were sent
does not place them in a different file. HCO Bulletins, HCO Pol Ltrs and
HCO Exec Ltrs all go chronologically. Saint Hill is not separate. And no
matter what colour flash or designation a mimeo has and whether old or new
or whether a stencil exists or not, before it goes into the Roneo it needs
Issue Authority Okay.
L. RON HUBBARD
LRH:ml.rd Copyright c 1965 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 4 JANUARY 1966 Issue IV
Gen Non-Remimeo LRH Comm Hat
OFFICE OF LRH SEC EDS AND HCO EXEC LTRS
The LRH Communicator is responsible for seeing that Sec Eds and Exec
Ltrs requiring action by an org are executed and acknowledged. The order is
this: 1. Int Exec Div LRH Comm: Enter the Sec Ed or Exec Ltr on the WW
Project Board, with area designation (Int, WW or an org-Int is every org,
WW is Int Exec Div SH only, an org is by area name). 2. Area LRH
Communicator: Enter each Sec Ed or Exec Ltr applying to the org on the Area
Project Board. 3. Call the attention of the area persons who will execute
it to the Sec Ed. 4. Put it on the Org Time Machine (Int Exec Div Time
Machine is used by Int Exec Div LRH Comm). 5. Occasionally query in it to
the person or persons responsible. 6. If there is a delay, info LRH Comm WW
on it. 7. When executed, relay fact on to LRH via LRH Comm WW. 8. Locally
file papers on it in the LRH Comm Completed Project F. It is important if
the Sec Ed or Exec Ltr name no specific person that the Area LRH
Communicator consult the Exec Sees in charge of the probable division to
get it specifically assigned to a person or persons who will be responsible
for doing it. If no person is designated then the LRH Communicator must
assign it to a person in the org off his or her own bat, right or wrong.
Any person to which a project is assigned is noted on the Area Project
Board. Sec Eds and Exec Ltrs containing projects require doingness. They
must be done by someone. When they are not done, but only discussed, then
the whole line balls up. The LRH Comm wants them done not discussed. POLICY
LTRS Pol Ltrs are not put on the Project Board. They are routine in the
org. A Pol Ltr overlooked can become a Project such as "Project Get In Pol
Ltr 22 Nov 65". These are called into play by Sec Eds when overlooked by an
org. The LRH Communicator can assign projects based on Pol Ltrs. This
becomes a local project. To do this the LRH Comm consults with the Exec
Sees first. If they agree it becomes a local project and goes on the
project board. If thrown off or forbidden, get authority from LRH at Saint
Hill who will order the Pol Ltr in by Sec Ed and it becomes a project.
L. RON HUBBARD
LRH:ml.rd Copyright c 1966 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 3 FEBRUARY 1966 Issue IV Remimeo LRH Comm Hat
Exec Sec Hat SEC ED CHANGE IN ISSUE AND USE Any SEC ED written personally
by the Executive Director will hereafter be: WHITE PAPER BLUE INK Those SEC
EDs issued for and on behalf of the Executive Director by Executive
Secretaries or the Adcouncil BLUE PAPER BLUE INK but will be signed:
ADVISORY COUNCIL (Location) for the Executive Director (Location) or: HCO
Exec Sec or Org Exec Sec for the Executive Director (Location) All SEC EDs
for AdComms or Secretaries are: DIVISION COLOUR PAPER BLUE INK and are
signed by the named AdComm or Secretary "for the Executive Director
(Location)" The LRH Communicator of the Area may sign and ok for issue any
SEC ED for the area providing only it is not contrary to policy or orders
from a higher org or the Int Exec Div (WW) or the Exec Dir. No SEC ED or
Executive Orders of any kind may be issued without an okay by the LRH
Communicator and ALL general Orders of the Adcouncil or an Executive
Secretary must be in SEC ED form and all general orders of AdComms or
Secretaries must be passed by the Adcouncil of that Org and issued as SEC
EDs with LRH Comm OK. WW SEC EDs take precedence over local SEC EDs where
there is any conflict or question of importance and SEC EDs written by the
Exec Dir (white ones) take precedence over all others. SEC EDs retain their
traditional forms and seals. A COPY OF EVERY SEC ED ISSUED MUST BE SENT TO
WW. This Policy Letter cancels Executive Orders of Divisions or orgs issued
in any other form than SEC EDs. Direct orders to specific posts in own
portion of an org need not be in SEC ED form but any extensive project must
be. Directors may issue general orders and projects only as SEC EDs by the
Secretary in the fashion described above for Secretaries and only with the
approval of their Secretaries.
L. RON HUBBARD LRH: ml. Cden Copyright c 1966 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL
RIGHTS RESERVED HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 3 FEBRUARY 1966 Issue V All Divisions Remimeo Ad
Council Hats Exec Sec Hats Ad Comm Hats Secretary Huts LRH Comm Hat HCO
Area Sec HCO Steno Hat SEC EDS DEFINITION AND PURPOSE CROSS DIVISIONAL
ORDERS In a SEC ED neither an Advisory Committee nor a Secretary may order
another division than their own. An Executive Secretary may issue a SEC ED
that crosses divisions but only those divisions directly under that
Executive Secretary (HCO Exec Sec SEC EDs may only order the two HCO
divisions, Org Exec Sec SEC EDs may only order the four [org] divisions).
The Advisory Council SEC EDs may order HCO and Org Divisions at the same
time. Advisory Councils, in approving the text of SEC EDs before passing
them on to the LRH Communicator for an okay to issue should be very careful
to see that no AdComm issues SEC EDs to other divisions than their own. The
LRH Communicator in authorizing the issue of a SEC ED, should be careful
that this policy letter is not violated. No SEC ED of any kind may be
issued unless it has been authorized by the LRH Communicator and any
violation of issue authority should be reported to the LRH Communicator WW
who is to refer it to the Adcouncil WW for action. SEC EDs improperly
issued have no validity and need not be obeyed and may not be used for
hearings or Comm Evs. ____________________
The meaning of the word SEC ED is "Secretarial to the Executive
Director". The word "Secretarial" applies to the signature meaning it is
signed as official by a person other than LRH personally. It is the written
initials in the lower left hand corner that are "secretarial". The system
came into use to accommodate cable orders originally. By being sealed and
initialled by an official person like a notary public in the org, the
validity of the order was attested as a valid order of LRH. Approval by an
Advisory Council or an Exec Sec and authorization by the LRH Communicator
for issue are now both required before the secretarial official in HCO
(usually the HCO Steno) may seal, initial and issue the order. It is this
person who requires that the Adcouncil or an Exec Sec and the LRH
Communicator's initials appear on the original copy before she may type,
seal and initial and then publish a SEC ED. The HCO Steno may not issue any
SEC ED today which does not have the initials of the Adcouncil or an Exec
Sec and the initials of the LRH Communicator on it or unless it is in the
handwriting of LRH or has come off the telex or through the mails from WW
and is a valid communication from proper persons there. The LRH
Communicator WW must be the transmitting authority from WW and must initial
an^ despatch or telex before transmission that is to become a SEC ED at the
other end. The HCO Steno must look for this before issuing. Her guide is
that if the LRH Communicator's initials are not on it she may not issue it,
excepting only it being in the handwriting of LRH or personally transmitted
by him. SEC EDs are fast orders and have top priority in transmission and
execution. They take precedence over all other orders both in transmission
speed and execution. The priority of SEC EDs is as follows: LRH Personally
written or personally sent SEC ED Adcouncil WW SEC ED Exec Sec WW SEC ED
Adcouncil Area SEC ED Exec Sec Area SEC ED AdComm Area SEC ED Secretary
Area. The penalty for not complying with a SEC ED is a misdemeanor and must
result in an Executive Ethics Hearing or an Ethics Hearing. If Executive
Secretaries in an area fail to respond to WW SEC EDs, they are usually
scheduled for early removal by WW. SEC EDs have the virtue of making orders
known and setting them on file where they can be referred to by other than
the recipient. The only answers to a SEC ED if one isn't going to do it
are: 1. An immediate petition to LRH on SEC EDs issued by LRH personally or
2. A job endangerment chit immediately filed in Ethics. If this step is
lacking and it is found that a SEC ED has not been complied with, then an
Executive Ethics Hearing or an Ethics Hearing MUST follow when the non-
compliance is discovered. Every single major danger condition at Saint Hill
in 1965 was found to have had as its source the non-compliance with a SEC
ED. If this policy seems unduly harsh then add up that fact. Some of these
danger conditions involved day and night work by top brass. And every one
of them would have been prevented had Ethics had this attitude toward non-
compliance with a SEC ED. The cost of these non-compliances ran
above?10,000 and they threatened the very existence of Scientology. And
each one would have been prevented had SEC EDs been complied with. From
this, one should regard non-compliance with a SEC ED without instantly
petitioning or filing a chit for job endangerment as something one does
just before taking the arsenic. The only thing that holds down the size of
Scientology today is simply non-compliance. The only thing that makes
trouble is non-compliance. The SEC ED system is designed to make orders
public and get them complied with fast. Conversely, if the order wasn't in
a SEC ED or Policy Letter, it does not have Ethics force-that is to say one
can't be seriously tried for it. All current projects and programmes should
be in SEC EDs so people know what they are. Those written in despatches
only are written in sand. SEC EDs can be confidential and of limited issue.
SEC EDs expire one year from their date of issue if not sooner by reason of
their text. If a SEC ED is to be preserved beyond a year it must be
converted into a Policy Letter by sending it to LRH. The Director of
Inspection and Reports is responsible for routinely checking the SEC ED
file for non-compliances and when found must forward the matter to Ethics
for prompt action.
L. RON HUBBARD
LRH:ml.rd Copyright c 1966 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 13 FEBRUARY 1966 Issue II
Remimeo All Exec Hats
SEC EDS SEC ED OK (CONTINUED) POL LTR CHANGES AND ORIGINS
"SEC ED" = Secretarially signed order of the Executive Director,
expiring one year from date of issue. "POL LTR" = A letter laying down
Policy continuing until cancelled by a new Pol Ltr. The Executive
Secretaries may not change or edit a Secretary's or AdComm's SEC ED but may
only pass or send it back with comments. A Secretary likewise may not
change another lower executive's SEC ED in the Secretary's Division but
must only pass it on or send it back with comments. An Executive Secretary
or a Secretary may have a job endangerment chit filed for refusing to pass
a SEC ED an executive believes vital to uphold his or her statistic, with a
full explanation of why. The LRH Communicator may refuse to pass a SEC ED
only if it is against policy and if so, then the full reference of what
policy letter or SEC ED it violates must be furnished with the refusal.
This means of course that an LRH Communicator must be well up on Policy.
Nebulous "It's against policy" is a violation of the LRH Comm's
instructions from me. If no policy concerning such a SEC ED is known to
exist yet the SEC ED seems to the LRH Communicator to put the org at risk,
the SEC ED must be cabled to the LRH Comm WW for further advices. If by
refusing to issue a SEC ED, an executive's statistic becomes bad and if
this is traced beyond reasonable doubt in any resulting hearing on that
Executive, the LRH Communicator must be given a hearing. On the other hand
if a SEC ED is passed by an LRH Communicator that is clearly against
published policy letters and results in dropped statistics then if any
hearing occurs on the Executives whose statistics dropped the LRH
Communicator must be made interested party.
______________________
THEORY The theory operating here is that SEC EDs are supposed to
improve statistics and that one cannot hold an executive responsible for
his or her statistic if that executive's orders are prevented from being
issued. An executive worth anything at all will issue specific orders to
remedy a dropped statistic or reinforce a climbing one and as that
executive is awarded or penalized only on the basis of the statistics he or
she is responsible for, interference with his or her orders can be serious.
Seniors usually advise a more junior executive who is doing normally. One
who is not gets into a Danger Condition easily and so specific orders must
be originated that by-pass his authority. Advising a junior who is in
affluence is pretty silly unless one simply says he better find out why and
keep doing it. One can always quote actual policy letters or bulletins at
any level with no fear of making a danger condition unless one is quoting
inapplicable material.
POL LTR ORIGINATION
If an executive is going to be hung for a statistic then he is
entitled to give the orders up to a point where the org is endangered. At
that moment of course he or she goes into Danger Condition. An executive
can always even originate a policy letter or one that cancels an impeding
Pol Ltr or SEC ED if he or she thinks it will help his statistic. An
originated cancellation of a Pol Ltr or a new Pol Ltr must go to the Qual
Sec for opinion and then the HCO Area Sec and then the Advisory Council and
any changes needed must be noted and it must be sent back to the originator
at any stage for rewrite before it can go to the LRH Communicator and so on
to LRH.
L. RON HUBBARD
LRH:ml.rd Copyright c 1966 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 13 MARCH 1966 Remimeo All Staff Hats Staff Status
2 Check Sheet All Divisions ORDERS, PRECEDENCE OF PERSONNEL, TITLES OF The
following table gives the precedence, which is to say the greater value or
importance of orders or directions in Scientology. This table shows what
order to follow first and if one below is contrary to one above, follow the
upper one: For anything relating to corporate status, starting or closing
bank accounts and vital planning: BOARD RESOLUTION (Black ink on white
paper, signed by all board members.) For policy: HCO POLICY LETTER (Green
ink on white paper, signed by LRH.) (HCO means HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS
OFFICE
.) For all Technical Matters in Scientology: HCO BULLETIN (Red ink on
white paper, signed by LRH.) For orders, or plans, expires in I year. For
Personnel permanent appointments: SEC ED (SECRETARIAL TO THE EXECU-TIVE
DIRECTOR) (LRH) (White paper, blue ink, signed personally by the Executive
Director LRH.) For transfers of large sums or property, appointments of
Exec Sees WW and urgent matters relating to survival actions: SEC ED
(GUARDIAN) (White paper, blue ink, signed by the Guardian, MSH for LRH.)
For Conditions assigned, personnel appointments and financial planning and
directions to Secretaries: SEC ED (Adcouncil) (Blue paper, blue ink, signed
by the Advisory Council for LRH Exec Dir, approved by LRH Communicator as
not against policy and by HCO for Personnel.) For orders to the divisions
under the Exec Sec: SEC ED (Executive Secretary) (Blue paper, blue ink,
signed by the HCO Exec Sec or Org Exec Sec for LRH Executive Director.) For
orders to a division by its Advisory Committee: SEC ED (Divisional AdComm)
(Colour of paper of the division, blue ink, signed by the Advisory
Committee of the Division for LRH Executive Director, approved by the
Advisory Council and the LRH Communicator and personnel orders also
approved by HCO Personnel Control.) For orders to Directors of the Division
from its Secretary: SEC ED (Divisional Secretary) (Colour of the paper of
the division, blue ink, signed by that Division's Secretary for LRH Exec
Director approved by the Adcouncil and LRH Communicator and requiring HCO
approval for personnel.)
For Directors of a department in ordering their own department:
WRITTEN ORDER (Director) (Signed by Director, approved by his divisional
Secretary.) For ordering personnel in work actions: WRITTEN ORDER
(Executive) (Signed by the departmental Officer or In Charge, approved by
the Department's Director.) For ordering immediate juniors by their
immediate superiors or one's immediate clerical assistants or in a
conference or in moments of urgency. Not valid otherwise and not binding as
evidence in Ethics hearings or for reason for charging a noncompliance
Ethics chit. Never accepted when relayed through a member of the public or
off channels. VERBAL ORDER On all orders, orders from an HCO Exec Sec may
not cross to Org Divisions, orders from the Org Exec Sec may not cross to
HCO Divisions except in the Office of the Org Exec Sec Dept 19. Secretaries
may not order other divisions than their own. Directors may not order staff
not in the Director's departments. Officers may not order other sections
than their own. In Charges may not order other units than their own. No
order lower on the scale may cancel or set aside an order above it on the
scale. Any staff member accepting an illegal order who does not file a job
endangerment chit when he or she received it has no defence in any
resulting ethics hearing. In these organizations one must not permit
himself to be led astray by a senior with "private knowledge". Anyone using
policy to prevent statistics rising is liable to an Ethics hearing or a
Committee of Evidence. The response to a generalized statement "That's
against policy" is "What is the Policy Letter that covers it?" And get it
displayed. It is possible to know where one stands only if one knows the
seniority of orders. The hardest position to be in is one where one's
senior has thrown the regulations away and is inventing his own-then none
knows where he stands. Any written or published order may be cancelled by a
published order senior to it on the above chart except that, traditionally,
Board Minutes cannot cancel Policy Ltrs or HCO Bs, these being originated
or modified by the Executive Director whose powers only are ratified by the
Board. HCO Policy Letters and HCO Bs (HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Bulletins) are considered technology and know-how and are outside
Admin channels. SENIORITY OF ORGS The comparable order of a senior org
cancels the order of or takes precedence over an org junior to it. The
seniority is: World Wide Continental Zone Sub-Zonal Area District Office
Field Staff Member Centre Franchise Holder Field Auditor Professional
Member Lifetime Member International Member Associate. The Adcouncil WW can
cancel or takes precedence over an Advisory Council Continental. An
Advisory Council Continental takes precedence over that of an org junior to
it. Advisory Councils are senior to Advisory Committees. An Adcouncil runs
the whole org, an AdComm runs only one of its divisions. Advisory Councils
are advisory to the Board of Directors or the Executive Director or the
Guardian and have no other powers. They cannot open or close bank accounts
or change corporate status. They are appointed by a senior Adcouncil or the
Exec Director or the Guardian. An Adcouncil consists of the two Executive
Secretaries of an org and the Executive Director. An Advisory Committee
exists for each division in the org (7) and is advisory to the Adcouncil
and is appointed by the Adcouncil of the org and consists of the Secretary
of the division and the three directors (heads of departments) or in an
Exec Division, the three Office Co-ordinators of the 3 Exec Div Offices who
are the same as directors but have a different title. SENIORITY OF
EXECUTIVES The following table gives the seniority of executives: EXECUTIVE
DIRECTOR There is only I Exec Director, LRH, and he is Exec Dir for WW and
for each org. There are no assistant or deputy Executive Directors. (Orders
issued for the Exec Dir must be approved by the LRH Communicator as not
against policy and by HCO Personnel when personnel is appointed.) THE
GUARDIAN There is only one Guardian, WW and each org. There may be
Assistant Guardians in larger orgs acting as liaison personnel for the
Guardian. EXECUTIVE SECRETARY There are two Executive Secretaries at WW,
two in Continental Exec Divisions, two in every other Exec Div. They are
the HCO Exec Sec and the Org Exec Sec. They head the 3 HCO and the 4 Org
divisions respectively. Together they with the Exec Dir, form the
Adcouncil. They are appointed by the Exec Dir, the Guardian or the
Adcouncil WW. The WW (Worldwide) Exec Sees are appointed by the Guardian by
statistics. SECRETARY There are 7 Secretaries in each organization. They
head divisions. They are the Chairmen of the Divisional AdComm. They are
appointed by the Adcouncil of the org with the approval of HCO Personnel
and LRH Comm. DIRECTOR There are 18 Directors in an organization. They head
departments. They are appointed by their Secretaries with the approval of
HCO Personnel and the LRH Comm (Communicator). CO-ORDINATORS There are 3 co-
ordinators in an org. They are the same as directors but head the 3 offices
(departments) of the Executive Division. They are appointed by the Division
7 Secretary with the approval of HCO Personnel and LRH Comm. OFFICER These
head sections within departments. IN CHARGE These head units inside
sections. EXECUTIVE A general term including any In Charge or above.
GENERAL STAFF MEMBER Any staff member who is not an Executive. STAFF MEMBER
Any and all persons employed in an org whether an executive or general
staff member.
ACTING A prefix to a title meaning appointed conditionally and if
shows good statistics for a year will become of permanent title. DEPUTY A
prefix to a title meaning "in the place of". There may be a deputy for each
executive post in an org in addition to the person with the title. Or it
means "filling in until an appointment is actually made". TEMPORARY An
impermanent assignment, either for reasons of expediency or under trial.
STAFF STATUS A number following the person's name on the org board that
shows the state of Administrative training of the individual as done in the
staff training section. Status numbers go from 0 for Temporary, I for
Provisional, 2 for Qualified general staff member on up for the various
executive grades. If no number appears after a name the person is holding
the post without check - out for it. A low ranking staff member can have a
high status number as it is qualified for, not "appointed to". This
prevents qualified persons from being by-passed in promotion. CLASS A
Technical Certificate in Scientology goes by Classes on the Gradation
Chart. The Class of a Scientologist's Certificate is noted in Roman
numerals after his name on the Org Board. GRADE The case grade of a staff
member is shown after his class as an auditor or if no class, after a dash,
in Roman numerals on an Org Board. Example: IV - IV-2 means Class IV
auditor, Grade IV pc, Staff Status 2 qualified as a permanent general staff
member. - IV-2 would mean Grade IV pc, 2 qualified permanent general staff
member but not trained as a Scientologist.
L. RON HUBBARD
LRH:ml.rd Copyright c 1966 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 10 AUGUST 1966 Amends HCO Policy Letter 7 May
1965 "Cancellation Mimeo Distribution Changes (SEC ED Distribution)"
Gen Non-Remimeo
SECEDS, EXECUTIVE DIRECTOR & GUARDIAN
All Executive Director and Guardian SECEDs are to be typed and run off
by Mimeo World Wide. They are to be distributed by HCO Steno Saint Hill
immediately upon receipt from Mimeo WW. Executive Director & Guardian
SECEDs are a fast, fast, fast line and take priority over any other issue.
It is, therefore, expected that any SECED will be typed, run off and
completely distributed within one hour of receipt. Any failure to issue an
Executive Director or Guardian SECED, or any stop anywhere on this line
will be considered a crime, if not a high crime. It is the responsibility
of the LRH Communicator World Wide to see that this line is kept moving at
a fast rate of speed and to report any failures to issue or stops on this
line to Ethics who must immediately take Ethics actions to remove the
person responsible for the stopped line from his post. SECEDs which have
not originated from the Executive Director or the Guardian go to HCO Steno
for typing, running off and distribution.
L. RON HUBBARD
LRH:lb-r.rd Copyright c 1966 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
NOT HCO POLICY LETTER CORRECT COLOUR FLASH BLUE ON WHITE EXECUTIVE
DIRECTIVE
E.D. I INT 6 September 1966
General Issue
RENAMING OF SECED'S
1. Secretarial Executive Director is now renamed Executive Directive.
2. The colour flash system of SECED's still remains the same for Executive
Directives. 3. Executive Directives are numbered consecutively starting
from E.D. 1. 4. Executive Directives continue the SECED line and file and
SECED'S less than I year old are in force. 5. Executive Directives issued
by Ad Council will in future be signed Ad Council for the Board of
Directors for the Church of Scientology of California U.K. for U.K. and the
Commonwealth, Church of Scientology of California for Western U.S.,
Founding Church of Scientology of D.C. for D.C. and its churches, and
Founding Church of Scientology N.Y. for New York.
The Guardian WW for the Boards of Directors of The Churches of
Scientology
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 20 OCTOBER 1966
Remimeo
SIGNATURES OF POL LTRS (Modifies any existing Policy re signature only
of Pol Ltrs)
Any Policy Letter I have not personally written must bear the
signatures of:
1. The actual composer 2. Each passing agency or identity required to
make it legal.
This may mean as many as five or six names may be signed to policy
letters I did not personally write. The reason for this is that a recent
policy letter that violated six major policies re Ethics was slipped
through and not questioned due to bearing my name, whereas I had never seen
it and it did not pass through the required approval lines.
L. RON HUBBARD Founder
LRH:lb-r.rd Copyright c 1966 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 9 MAY 1968
Remimeo LRH Comm Hat
Any Executive Directive written personally by LRH will have the
following distinctive format:
EXECUTIVE DIRECTIVE FROM L. RON HUBBARD
It will be signed in the bottom right-hand corner
L. RON HUBBARD Founder This is achieved by using pre-cut stencils,
typing in the orders as with any ED. The typewriter type face is "Prestige
Elite". LRH EDs will have a consecutive number series starting at one used
only for LRH EDs and will be distinguished from all other ED number series
by the initials LRH appearing before the usual ED designation. The
consecutive number is followed by the cable designation of the area or zone
or org to which the order is directed. The number series for each
designation begins again at one, e.g. LRH ED I INT. Thus when filed there
will exist a file of LRH EDs which contains in numerical order only LRH EDs
for any area and which may easily and rapidly be referred to. The flash
colour will be blue ink on white paper. This flash colour may only be used
for LRH originated orders, and may not be used by any other. All others use
blue ink on pale blue paper.
Ken Delderfield LRH Communicator WW for L. RON HUBBARD Founder
LRH:js.rd Copyright c 1968 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
Remimeo Guardian ECs LRH Comms HCO POLICY LETTER OF 13 MAY 1969 (HCO
Policy Letter of 14 November 1966, Revised) (Corrected and reissued) HCO
Area Sec Qual Sec All Staff HOW TO SUBMIT A PROPOSED POLICY LETTER These
are the rules one follows in proposing a Policy Letter: 1. Make sure before
you propose one that it is not already in existing policy or is not
handling a non-existent problem (refer HCO Policy Letter of 23 April 1965,
PROBLEMS). 2. Write it clearly and simply so that the least experienced
staff member, or student, or pc to whom it would apply can understand it.
3. Type up the proposed Policy Letter exactly as it is to be issued. 4.
Give in the top left-hand corner the distribution of the Policy Letter
(refer HCO Policy Letter of 14 April 1969, BULLETIN AND POLICY LETTER
DISTRIBUTION). 5. Give the title of the Policy Letter and any sub-titles or
sections in capital letters, following the format of existing Policy
Letters. 6. To be approved (as per HCO Policy Letter of 20 October 1966,
SIGNATURES OF POL LTRS), the proposed Policy Letter must bear the
signatures of (1) the actual composer and (2) each passing agency or
identity required to make it legal, as listed in paragraph #8, below. 7.
Attach to the proposed Policy Letter Completed Staff Work. Make sure that
all data is presented so that seniors up the line can attest on the basis
of this CSW that it is OK and that The Guardian in Policy Review Section
need only read the proposed Policy Letter and the CSW to OK and issue it.
8. Send the proposed Policy Letter and CSW to the following terminals for
their signature and attestation that the proposed Policy Letter is OK: 1.
One's seniors in one's own Division 2. Qual Sec 3. HCO Area Sec 4. Ad
Council (Local Org) 5. Exec Council (Local Org) 6. LRH Comm (Local Org) 7.
Ad Council WW 8. Exec Council WW 9. LRH Comm WW and finally to The Guardian
WW (Policy Review Section) for issue. Any terminal along the way can either
attest the Policy is OK, sign and pass it on, or say it is not OK, state
reason why and return to originator. If you have a proposed Policy Letter
sent to you which violates any point above, so note before returning that
it may be corrected and re-submitted properly. There is no effort to stop
staff members from proposing necessary policy, but to get it done properly
so the line flows smoothly and rapidly. Tom Armistead, for Ad Council WW
Jim Keely, Qual Sec WW Bruce Glushakow, HCO Area Sec WW Ad Council WW Exec
Council WW Rodger Wright, LRH Comm WW Jane Kember, The Guardian WW for L.
RON HUBBARD Founder LRH: ei.rd Copyright c 1969 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL
RIGHTS RESERVED
[Revised by HCO P/L 26 June 1971, same title, in the 1971 Year Book.]
HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 14 APRIL 1969
Remimeo
(HCO PL 2 July 1964 Revised) (Cancels HCO PL 25 Jan 1966, Issue III)
(Corrected and Reissued)
BULLETIN AND POLICY LETTER DISTRIBUTION
Effective at once, the following is the policy on Distribution of HCO
Bulletins and Policy Letters issued from WW.
ORGS REMIMEO
(Remimeo means mimeo copies to be made by the Org)
Only an electronic stencil will be made of all Remimeo HCO Bulletins
and Policy Letters and mailed to each Continental Org (or Zonal Org). The
Continental Org (or Zonal Org) is then responsible for running off HCO
Bulletins and Policy Letters for their nearby Central Orgs. However, when
an Org gets large enough it may have its own stencil sent to them to run
off copies for their own staff and students. A Continental Org (or Zonal
Org) receiving a stencil as above is responsible for all copies to be
issued to the nearby Orgs, which are dependent upon it. The local Org (if
it hasn't been sent a stencil of its own) may not Remimeo and re-orders
will be at charge payable by the local Org to their issuing Org at locally
arranged prices.
ORGS NON-REMIMEO
(Non-Remimeo means HCO Bulletins and Policy Letters which are intended
for use but only by executives and therefore of limited distribution. It
means not to be mimeoed again by the receiving Org.)
On Non-Remimeo a very few copies are sent to the Continental Orgs and
they in turn distribute to their nearby Orgs. There are two classes of Non-
Remimeo: General Non-Remimeo and Limited Non-Remimeo. General Non - Remimeo
distribution is based on I copy for Master files, one copy to LRH Comm, one
copy to The Guardian or A/G, one copy each to HCO ES, OES, PES, one copy to
the reference files of all HCO Bs and P/Ls kept in Reception for staff, one
copy to the head of the Department concerned and one copy to the post in
the Dept concerned. Limited Non-Remimeo means that copies only go to Master
files, LRH Comm, The Guardian or A/G, HES, OES, PES. When compiling a
mailing to a stencil receiving org of Non-Remimeo, one takes the number
required by the local Orgs served by the Continental Org and sends that
many to the Continental Org. In its turn the Cont Org retains enough copies
for themselves (including the Cont Exec Council) and sends the correct
number to each Org they serve. These are the standard mirneo distribution
symbols:
Remimeo General Non-Remimeo Limited Non-Remimeo SH ASHO Franchise
Students BPI MA (Magazine Article)
Other special distribution may be indicated such as SHSBC, or Class
VIII.
REMIMEO This indicates main technical or Policy material. Received by
the Cont Org (or Zonal Org) in stencil form, copies are run off for their
staff, and for the staffs of their nearby Orgs and for their students as
they wish. They keep the stencil on file for additional copies as needed.
They file copies in their Master and general files in each Org including
the receiving Org. The stencil Orgs have considerable discretion in how
many they run off, how many they send smaller orgs (but they must insure I
copy for each staff member in the local Org of Remimeo issues), whether
they issue to students or not. But they must-keep the stencil for re-use
and file in their own Master files with the copy clearly stamped MASTER
COPY.
LIMITED NON-REMIMEO It is usually important that this does not get
wide distribution as it has to do with Org know-how, planning, etc, and
could be misunderstood. So it is not Remimeoed or strewn about. It may be
taken up in Staff meetings but that is about all. One never republishes a
Limited Non-Remimeo in a magazine.
GENERAL NON-REMIMEO The same as Limited Non-Remimeo but somewhat
broader. These usually deal with broader points of Admin or Tech of
interest to one or two production departments as well as the LRH Comm, The
Guardian or A/G, HES, OES, PES. Again, they are never strewn about or
broadly republished as they could be misunderstood.
FRANCHISE Franchise receives for a small fee technological materials,
up to his level of classification. The Franchise Officer WW receives one
copy for his files and one copy for each Franchise holder he is going to
mail it out to. See HCO PL 20 Feb 1969 for local org supply lines.
BPI Broad Public Issue (BPI) is a designation that sometimes appears
on a Policy Letter or HCO B. This follows the same distribution procedure
as for Remimeo, with the exception that it is also put in 'The Auditor' and
Cont magazines. These policies have become necessary by reason of new lines
coming into existence and various changes of the past needing
clarification.
______________________
In recapitulation, mimeos may not be issued except as designated,
extra copies may not be furnished except for cash payment, and paper and
postage waste must be kept reduced. Fewer pieces make faster lines. There's
one exception to the above and that is the BULLETIN CHECK LIST. This is
issued once each month, before the 15th of the next month. It will be air
mailed to all Scientology Orgs independently. No electronic stencil is cut
for it. Two copies, one for the HES and one for the LRH Comm, are sent by
air mail to each Scientology Org independently. This cross-checks whether
or not the mimeo distribution system is working. In listing all mimeos
sent, the distribution designation of each is given on the Bulletin Check
List.
________________________
Where a relay point temporarily breaks down, its related orgs will
receive independent service direct until the matter is repaired, a matter
which is up to the Dir Comm WW and LRH Comm WW to work out. PERMISSION TO
MIMEO Nothing may be mimeoed or distributed on these lines unless it has
been okayed by LRH, to prevent extraneous traffic from jamming the lines.
POSTAGE Study to lighten postage, particularly air mail, for both World
Wide and Cont Orgs. Reduce it.
Revised for re-issue by: LRH Comm WW - Rodger Wright Qual Sec WW - Jim
Keely HCO Area Sec WW - Bruce Glushakow Ad Council WW LRH Comm WW - Rodger
Wright The Guardian WW - Jane Kember for L. RON HUBBARD Founder LRH-
.ei.cden Copyright c 1969 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
[Modified by HCO P/L 29 January 1970 Issue II, Freedom to Remimeo, in
the 1970 Year Book.] HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 12 OCTOBER 1962
Central Orgs Franchise Field
RE-ISSUE SERIES (1) BASIC PURPOSES OF A SCIENTOLOGY ORGANIZATION
(Taken from HCO Policy Letter of Nov. 27, 1959 and HCO London Letter of
Jan. 9, 1958)
L. RON HUBBARD, FOUNDER. Purpose: To develop and disseminate
Scientology. To support and assist Scientologists. To write better books.
To act as a court of appeals in all organizational disputes. To form and to
make official policies and orders affecting the Founding Church. FOUNDING
CHURCH OF SCIENTOLOGY (HASI). Purpose: To disseminate Scientology. To
advance and protect its membership. To hold the lines and data of
Scientology clean and clear. To educate and process people toward the goal
of a 'civilized age on Earth second to none. To survive on all dynamics.
FOUNDING CHURCH CONGREGATION. Purpose: To communicate to the congregation
the principles and philosophy of Scientology. To ensure for each individual
an awareness of their health, happiness and immortality through good
training, processing and fellowship. HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
. Purpose: To be the office of LRH. To handle and expedite the
communication lines of LRH. To prepare or handle the preparation of
manuscripts and other to-be-published material of Scientology. To keep, use
and care for LRH's office equipment. To assist the organizations of
Scientology and their people. To set a good example of efficiency to
organizations. PUBLIC RELATIONS (under HCO). Purpose: To maintain and
increase good public relations for the organizations of Dianetics and
Scientology. EDITORIAL DIRECTOR (under HCO). Purpose: To keep material in
publications within Organization Policy, and to prepare publishable
material. HCO COMMUNICATOR. Purpose: To keep the communication lines
flowing and the files in order in HCO. HCO BOARD OF REVIEW. Purpose: To
validate for full results every certificate ever issued in Dianetics and
Scientology. To be the final authority on any certificates to be issued. To
be the final authority on Clear certification. ORGANIZATION SECRETARY.
Purpose: To get people to get the work done. To enforce the policies and
advise the Board. LEGAL. Purpose: To make legal the actions of the
organizations of Dianetics and Scientology and safeguard their public and
private interests. ADVISORY COUNCIL. Purpose: To advise the executives of
the organization as to needed changes and policies. To act as a meeting
ground for department heads. To assemble and report the statistics of
finance and action to the Executive Director. To advance ideas for
promotion and improvement. STAFF MEETING. Purpose: To gather agreement and
permit staff origination upon matters relating to personnel and duties. To
report on performance of duties. To suggest promotional, maintenance and
organizational changes to FC executives. TECHNICAL DIVISION TECHNICAL
DIRECTOR. Purpose: To ensure good training and processing, good service and
ARC inside and outside the organization. ACADEMY OF SCIENTOLOGY. Purpose:
To train the best auditors in the world. TRAINING ADMINISTRATOR. Purpose:
To keep the materials and comm lines of, the Academy in good order. To keep
a Roll Book. To prepare and collect certification materials. COMMUNICATION
COURSE. Purpose: To give people a reality on Scientology and to teach the
communication formula by Dummy Auditing. HUBBARD GUIDANCE CENTRE. Purpose:
To do more for people's health and ability than has ever before been
possible and to give the best auditing possible. To help people. PROCESSING
ADMINISTRATOR. Purpose: To handle the persons, communications and materials
of the HGC to the end of improving and continuing the quality and business
of the HGC. SCIENTOMETRIC TESTING IN CHARGE. Purpose: To give all and any
tests or exams that may be required to any department or organization or
personnel, and to keep and file results accurately to assist research and
presentation, and to have test materials in abundance to hand. PERSONAL
EFFICIENCY FOUNDATION. Purpose: To make a better worker of the worker, a
better executive of the executive, a better homo sap on all dynamics.
ADMINISTRATIVE DIVISION Purpose: To ensure good and accurate communication
inside organization. To handle business and administrative affairs. To
ensure good working quarters and conditions for and good work from
organizational personnel. DEPT OF PROMOTION & REGISTRATION. Purpose: To
procure students and preclears by actual, direct and personal contact using
personal letters and assuring an adequate number of students and preclears.
RECEPTION. Purpose: To create and maintain good communication and service
amongst staff, students and public. DEPT OF MATERIEL. Purpose: To hold in
readiness and good repair all the communication materiel, files, addresses,
furniture, equipment, quarters and transport necessary to adequate function
of the organization. DEPT OF ACCOUNTS. Purpose: To keep the business
affairs of the organization in good order, to maintain the good business
repute of the organization and to see to it that the business activities of
Scientology are up to date in an excellent condition. To make sure that
income exceeds outgo. DISBURSEMENT CLERK. Purpose: Break down income into
proportions; validate bills; issue checks. L. RON HUBBARD LRH:jw.rd
Copyright c 1962 by L. Ron Hubbard ALL RIGHTS RESERVED
[Note: The original 9 Jan '58 issue tad Advisory Committee in place
of. Advisory Council, giving the same purpose as above, except that the
person to whom statistics of finance and action were reported was the
Association Secretary. The 27 Nov '59 issue changed Advisory Committee to
Advisory Council, giving the same purpose as above. HCO P/L 9 Sept '64,
entitled Purpose of AdComm, amended this purpose saying: "Sometimes
organizations tend to forget what the basic purpose of an Adcomm is. The
original purpose is amended as follows: 'To advise the Assoc/Org Sec on
Promotional Matters relating to the various Departments.' This purpose
should be read at the beginning of every Adcomm meeting held in all Orgs.
It should be prefaced, 'This meeting is held to advise...... etc.' - L. RON
HUBBARD"]