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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