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The smaller the org, unit or department the less policy is needed.
Reversely, the less policy is used the smaller will become the org, unit or
department.
One can always safely assume, when policy is available, that non
expansion is the direct result of the policy remaining unknown or not
followed. The steps to take are therefore:
Expansion formula:
1. PROVIDE GOOD POLICY.
2. MAKE IT EASILY KNOWABLE.
3. BE STRENUOUS IN MAKING SURE IT IS FOLLOWED.
This is the most broad possible formula for expansion.
Profitable expansion of a unit, department, org, company, empire or
civilization depends utterly on the above formula being applied.
If it is well applied, literally thousands of other impeding factors
drop into unimportance.
This applies to anything, even a person, but the bigger the number of
individuals involved the more rigorously it has to be followed.
The bigger the size of the activity concerned (the more people involved
in it) the more damage can result from failures to follow policy.
Thus orgs or companies which halt expansion mysteriously only need to
have more policy, or to make policy more easily available or to be more
vigorous in requiring it to be followed.
Policy is a guiding thing. It is composed of ideas to make a game,
procedures to be followed in eventualities and deterrents to departures.
The basic policy of an activity must be the defining and recommending of
a successful and desirable basic purpose.
Take a Navy, to get a more distant comparison. If a Navy has the basic
purpose of defending a nation and its citizens and expanding their scope,
and if the policy is the guiding principle behind all other policies and if
these in turn are developed from experience and made known and followed,
then oddly enough even new inventions or new philosophies of state could
not prevent that Navy from doing its job and expanding the nation. The US
Navy might very well have won the war with Japan in its six weeks if those
who headed it in Washington had not been mere political puppets subject to
every Congressional and Presidential wlum. The text books were very clear
about what the Navy should do. But King, Nimitz and Short, the Admirals
involved, had been chosen by wlum, favoritism and capacity for liquor, not
by raw statistics of "good Navy activity". They had been trained at an
Academy where the basic principles of "Good Navy" and raw statistics on
personnel had not been used to choose an Academy head or Instructors. So
King, Nimitz and Short, as Admirals listened to current political rumours
or whims (being only confirmed in political not naval policy) and so let
Pearl Harbour happen. How? Their own naval text books said "During times of
negotiation with an unfriendly state, the position of the fleet should be
at sea, whereabouts unknown." That is line one of the Navy textbook on
Tactics and Strategy. Where was it? In Pearl Harbour during many days of
hostile negotiation between Roosevelt and the Japanese-the most dangerous
naval rival. Where were King and Nimitz? At a cocktail party with the
politicians. Where was Short? Giving his all ashore, having given his men
full weekend liberty and having ordered all ammunition stowed below for a
coming Admiral's inspection. So Pearl Harbour could happen. But did the
humans learn? No. True, Short, acting on his Washington orders
notwithstanding, was removed and eventually court-martialed. But King and
Nimitz took over the whole Navy for more than four heartbreaking years of
"promote by political whim" "what policy?" and defeat in battle after
battle until aircraft turned the tide of war and the army and an atom bomb
finally finished it. Now the Navy is really no more. A few subs. A few
patrol ships. The rest in mothballs. People think the Navy is small now
because of new weapons. No, it is small because it (a) didn't clearly
express its basic purpose, (b) didn't educate its people well in the policy
it did have, (c) let political opinion shift it about, (d) chose its
officers by rumour, cabal and social presence and (e) forgot its texts when
the emergency loomed. Result, long war, now no Navy with anything-officers
palling with men, ships in the bone yard. Could the Navy have done its job
in 1941? Yes. Had its original policies regarding officer training and