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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