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HUBBARD COMMUNICATIONS OFFICE
Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex
HCO POLICY LETTER OF 19 JANUARY 1966
Issue III
Remimeo
Executive Hats
DANGER CONDITION
RESPONSIBILITIES OF DECLARING
BY-PASS = Jumping the proper terminal in a chain of command.
If you declare a Danger Condition, you of course must do the work
necessary to handle the situation that is dangerous.
This is also true backwards. If you start doing the work of a post on a
by-pass you will of course unwittingly bring about a Danger Condition. Why?
Because you unmock the people who should be doing the work.
Further, if you habitually do the work of others on a by-pass you will
of course inherit all the work. This is the answer to the overworked
executive. He or she by-passes. It's as simple as that. If an executive
habitually by-passes he or she will then become overworked.
Also the Condition of Non-Existence will occur.
So the more an executive by-passes, the harder he works. The harder he
works on a by-pass, the more the section he is working on will disappear.
So purposely or unwittingly working on a by-pass, the result is always
the same-Danger Condition.
If you have to do the work on a by-pass you must get the Condition
Declared and follow the formula.
If you Declare the Condition, you must also do the work.
You must get the work being competently done, by new appointment or
transfer or training or case review. And the condition is not over when the
hearings are over. It is over when that portion of the org has visibly
statistically recovered.
So there are great responsibilities in declaring a Danger Condition.
These are outweighed in burdensomeness by the fact that if you DON'T
declare one on functions handled by those under you which go bad, it will
very soon catch up with you yourself, willy-nilly and declared or not you
will go into a Danger Condition personally.
There's the frying pan-there's the fire. The cheerful note about it is
that if the formula is applied you have a good chance of not only rising
again but also of being bigger and better than ever.
And that's the first time that ever happened to an executive who started
down the long slide. There's hope!
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There is one further footnote on a Danger Condition. I have carefully
studied whether or not HCOBs and Policy Letters and actions by me were by-
passes. And a search of statistics refutes it as when I give the most
attention to all echelons of an org wherever the org is, its statistics
rise and when I don't they fall. Therefore we must assume that advice is
not a by-pass, nor is a general order by me.