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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 �1967
by L. Ron Hubbard
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED