Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex HCO POLICY LETTER OF 11 AUGUST 1971 Issue II | Saint Hill Manor, East Grinstead, Sussex HCO POLICY LETTER OF 11 AUGUST 1971 Issue III |
INFINITE EXPANSION | |
DON’T UNMOCK A WORKING INSTALLATION | There is no reason whatever to ever contract or reduce the size of an org except covert destruction. |
The stable rule of a good HAS or HCO Cope Officer is NEVER UNMOCK A WORKING INSTALLATION. | In theory there is no limit to the size of an org. |
It takes a lot of executive time and effort to build up a section or dept or division. | The 1967 org bd is capable of expanding to 200,000 staff members! |
For someone to then come along and scramble it up with transfers is a criminal action. | For our purposes, there is no real limit to expansion. |
If a unit, section, dept or division is operating well, don’t unmock it. | So long as property purchase does not commit future income dangerously and so long as HASes keep the admin staff in a ratio of two to one technical staff, there is no limit to expansion. |
Strengthen it. Hat it better. Put apprentices in it opposite to its posts to learn. Give it help. | So long as cash-bills is kept more cash than bills there is no limit to expansion. |
But DON’T SCRAMBLE IT. | So long as the staff produces what their posts call for there is no limit to expansion. |
The work of years can be destroyed overnight by “urgent,” “vital” personnel action. | So long as you DELIVER in quality what you SELL there is no limit to expansion. |
Such crazy actions are only done by people too lazy to recruit and train new people or by unreal financial planning or a failure to get it to produce. | So long as you keep standard on admin and keep standard on tech, there is no limit to expansion. |
THE MAIN REASON WE HAVE EVER HAD SLUMPS HAS BEEN UNMOCKING ORGS OR UNITS. | So don’t get frightened, don’t fire people, don’t cut back. Understand the above and the whole of this policy letter. And there is no limit to expansion. |
Firing people, too heavy ethics, putting off people as “PTS” when all you needed was to pull their withholds, a thousand reasons can be given for unmocking an org or its parts. | So EXPAND. |
They are all cover-ups for execs who won’t keep the place busy and for HCO failures to recruit, train and hat. | Founder |
To do so is a sign of insanity. | |
People like their jobs. | |
DON’T UNMOCK A WORKING INSTALLATION. | |
Founder | |
[Note: See also HCO PL 13 July 1974, Issue II, Org Series 34, WORKING INSTALLATIONS on page 423 of Management Series Volume 1.] | |