P_304.doc

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
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by L. Ron Hubbard
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