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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