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so your org board must to that degree be a standard org board. But you
still have to do
routing on it and provide routing for it.

    To invent policies or supplement policies without sending  them  through
channels
as completed staff work (which means routed to the board, with  all  related
policy
letters clipped to the requested  change  and  the  new  policy  letter  all
written ready for
issue) will break down the Scientology lines in that area.

    You don't believe it? Australia got into its whole enquiry mess  because
the senior
executives  either  did  not  know  or  follow  the  long  standing   policy
concerning the
prompt return of money to a dissatisfied pc. That  cost  the  org  thousands
and
thousands, a year  of  grief,  and  risked  getting  Scientology  banned  in
Australia. A policy
not known or altered is death. Not from me but from the community  in  which
the org
operates.

    Still don't believe it? Washington D.C. either did not know or  did  not
follow the
explicit policy concerning receiving favours from preclears but  only  half-
heartedly
reported them to an uninformed HCO which didn't know or  didn't  follow  the
full
intent and spirit of the policy and never told me  as  was  implied  in  the
original policy
letter. The wife of that person giving the favours brought on the whole  FDA
mess that
cost us tens of thousands and two years of  grief  and  almost  knocked  out
Scientology in
the U.S.

    Policy is survival for a group.

    ONLY PRACTICAL POLICY AGREED UPON AND FOLLOWED PROVIDES
THE ARC THAT IS THE LIFE ITSELF OF ANY GROUP. It's the mores, the policies,
whatever you want to call them that makes a group or an  organization  alive
and
breathing.

    Bad policy, bad mores, and you have a dying group, a dying organization.
Governments  whose  policies  are  unreal  are  perishing.  They  act   like
criminals. There's
where anyone gets his distaste for "policy"-he has looked  at  the  policies
of dying
groups and is imitating how they are regarded.

    But as in control there is good control and "bad control" so  in  policy
there is
good policy and bad policy. It has a bad name with  some  people.  It  bores
them. They
also kill groups. So if your organization is going  to  live  it  must  have
real, living policy
and respect it and use it.

    All right, so we're serious now. Org boards and policies must exist  and
be
followed and the person who makes sure of that is a Scientology executive.

    The clue to violations is  the  continuously  full  In  Basket,  whether
moving or not.
If an executive's In Basket is always full, then he or she either isn't  (a)
working at all or
(b) is working like mad but is not handling offline or offpolicy  despatches
by getting
the lines in and the policy known.

    You can't escape it, there it is.

    There is nothing wrong with working hard as an executive. I do. There is
nothing
wrong with having lots of traffic through an In Basket.  A  busy  org  does.
There is
everything wrong with an executive having a lot  of  staff  traffic  because
99% of it is
offline and offpolicy and if you don't act to correct it you not only  don't
have time to
breathe, you also will wind up with no income and no org.

    Fact.


      L. RON HUBBARD


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