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Simson." "Who's Simson?" "He's a clerk in the enemy office downtown."
"Good, when they've done it, take Dober down to the dispensary for any
treatment he needs. Oh yes. Raise his pay." Or "Sir, could I have the power
to sign divisional orders?" "Sure."
7. And lastly and most important, for we all aren't on the stage with
our names in lights, always push power in the direction of anyone on
whose power you depend. It may be more money for the power, or more
ease, or a snarling 'defense of the power to a critic, or even the dull
thud of one of his enemies in the dark, or the glorious blaze of the
whole enemy camp as a birthday surprise.
If you work like that and the power you are near or depend upon is a
power that has at least some inkling about how to be one, and if you
make others work like that, then the power-factor expands and expands
and expands and you too acquire a sphere of power bigger than you would
have if you worked alone. Real powers are developed by tight
conspiracies of this kind pushing someone up in whose leadership they
have faith. And if they are right and also manage their man and keep him
from collapsing through overwork, bad temper or bad data, a kind of
Juggernaut builds up. Don't ever feel weaker because you work for
somebody stronger. The only failure lies in taxing or pulling down the
strength on which you depend. All failures to remain a power's power are
failures to contribute to the strength and longevity of the work, health
and power of that power. Devotion requires active contribution outwards
from the power as well as in.
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If Bolivar and Manuela had known these things they would have lived an
epic, not a tragedy. They would not have "died in the ditch", he bereft of
really earned praise for his real accomplishments even to this day. And
Manuela would not be unknown even in the archives of her country as the
heroine she was.
Brave, brave figures. But if this can happen to such stellar
personalities gifted with ability tenfold over the greatest of other
mortals, to people who could take a rabble in a vast impossible land and
defeat one of Earth's then foremost powers, with no money or arms, on
personality alone, what then must be the ignorance and confusion of human
leaders in general, much less little men stumbling through their lives of
boredom and suffering?
Let us wise them up, huh? You can't live in a world where even the great
leaders can't lead.
L. RON HUBBARD
Founder
LRH:jp.rd
Copyright (c) 1967
by L. Ron Hubbard
ALL RIGHTS RESERVED