About the fastest way Estos can unmock an org is pursue the fatal course of Org Officers in the first Product Officer-Org Officer system.

These Org Officers bypassed all normal lines for personnel, materiel, spaces and supplies and by disestablishing in that fashion tore more org apart than they built. This made it almost impossible for the lonely HAS to establish anything.

• 1. The Executive Establishment Officer or Establishment Officer In-Charge hats and keeps Estos working in their areas.

An Exec Esto especially and any Esto must

1. Get personnel on usual channels.

2. Get materiel only by proper procurement.

In that way the org is built or expands stably. In that way the org is prosperous, the staff is happy.

3. Get and use spaces only according to standard CSW to the authorities involved — usually the C/O or ED.

If some other sequence is being tried or other things are happening then the org is likely to be slow, upset or nonviable.

4. Get supplies only by the exact Purchase Order and supply channels.

When an org has both an Exec Esto and an Esto I/C or Chief Estos or Leading Estos the Exec Esto shall hat (a) all the Estos and the I/C or Chief or Leading Estos especially until they can safely be trusted to become a 1A relay point in the above where 1 would be “The Exec Esto hats all Estos I/C, Chief and Leading Estos until they in turn can hat and handle their Estos as per 2.”

5. Follow the exact admin lines designed to achieve establishment.

For, after all, those lines ARE a major part of establishment.

Power is proportional to the speed of particle flow. This applies to despatches, bodies, materiel and anything else that can be called a particle.

If these lines are not in they must be put in.

What then slows things down?

If the Exec Esto and Estos cannot or do not follow the exact procedure required in policy or routing forms or admin patterns THEY WILL TEAR THINGS UP FASTER THAN THEY CAN BE GOTTEN IN.

UNCERTAINTY.

Estos must be drilled on these lines until they are truly in and effective.

Many things can cause uncertainty. Threats, transfers, rumors.

It is up to them to set the example to others.

People want their posts. Leave one without one awhile and see what happens! Firm establishment, unchanging orders, give certainty.

Nothing however causes more uncertainty than what one’s product is.

Lines that cross from one division to another such as public lines are under the control of Dept 2 HCO.

Or if he can get someone to get out a product.

They are dummy run by the Dir Comm under the guidance of the HCO Esto and with the cooperation of the Esto Conference.

As certainty becomes firm on the product of a post or org, the ability to get it out, then all else falls into place and establishment has occurred.

These lines are vital to an org.

This is also true of personnel lines, supply lines and routing forms for new staff or transfers or any other action that may involve 2 or more divisions.

It is easy for an Exec Esto or Esto I/C or any Esto to imagine he could make it all right by just bypassing and doing the product job. If he does that he fails as an Esto and the staff becomes uncertain as they feel they can’t get out the product

Lines within a division are the business of the Estos of that division.

Where departmental Estos exist, the lines linking up departments are handled by the Esto Conference of that division.

If you want to speed up an org just do the usual 1, 2, 3 as given above.

The org will become certain.

Lines are invisible to many people. They disregard them and chaos results.

It will speed up.

Thus Estos of all people must see that edges are put on those lines, usually in the form of HCO routing forms and ethics actions for violations.

AN ORG WHOSE ADMIN OR BODY LINES ARE BEING VIOLATED WILL DISESTABLISH.

Estos who do lots of admin are not being Estos. They belong on their feet or at best sitting with a staff member hatting him.

What is gained in sudden action is lost in disestablishment. The seized desk without permission, the grabbed space without proper allocation, the ripped off supplies for lack of chits and supply lines, the suddenly transferred personnel all end up with a headache for somebody else and an unmocked area.

When an Esto has given up he begins to do admin.

Of course one has to do org boards and CSWs for posting, lines and materials. And one does have despatches. But if these require more than a couple hours a day something is very wrong.

DO NOT DISESTABLISH A WORKING INSTALLATION!

The Esto is the only one who MUST bring a body.

Example: An exec spends months building up a producing Qual Div. The Qual Sec is suddenly ripped off without replacement and apprenticing the replacement. The div collapses. There went months of work. It was far more economical to have a Qual Sec In-Training under that Qual Sec for a month or two before the transfer.

Using the wrong personnel pools for want of proper recruiting and training is the downfall of most orgs.

In a very large org there are at least two Esto Masters-at-Arms.

Because it wrecks working installations.

Both have crew mustering, exercises, etc. Their functions can interchange.

This applies as well to org machinery. Don’t wreck one machine to get a part for another. And don’t ever take one apart that is running well.

But the senior is the Exec Esto’s MAA for investigation and finding Whys.

The Assistant MAA is the one who helps handle the Estos and crosschecks on them and helps them and acts as liaison between them and the Ethics Officer or HCO terminals of the org.

The definition of OPERATIONAL is running without further care or attention.

Estos do NOT go to the HCO Esto for HCO PRODUCTS. They go to the HCO terminals involved or, far better, put it via the Asst Exec Esto’s MAA — “the Esto’s MAA.” And he does not go to the HCO Esto either but to the proper terminals in HCO.

Anything that needs constant fiddling or working at to make it run is nonoperational! It must be repaired fully or replaced.

The Assistant MAA should know at any given moment where to find any Esto in the org. This is so he can get them for the Exec Esto or locate them due to emergencies.

Man-hours and time waste easily eat up any value of the inoperational machine.

He is their personal troubles terminal.

Further, a machine that is forced to run that does not run well may then break down utterly and expensively. The time to repair is soon, the moment it cannot be run without great care or attention.

He verifies their presence at any muster.

OPERATIONAL is a key definition that answers many problems.

He is in fact keeping the lines in between the Exec Esto and the Estos.

It is also true of people. Those who need continual pushing around or rounding up cannot be considered operational. They can absorb time totally out of proportion to worth.

It is all done by body traffic, not by any despatch.

This is no license to shoot staff down. But it is a warning that where too much time is absorbed trying to make a staff member functional he cannot be considered OPERATIONAL.

In an exact division of duties the Senior Exec Esto MAA is responsible for the whole staff as people. And how they influence org form.

If an Esto spent 100% of his time for weeks on just one staff member and let the rest go hang, he’d soon find he was rewarding a downstat as well as violating the definition of operational.

The Assistant Esto MAA is responsible for the Estos as Estos on post and as people. And how they infuence the Esto pattern of operations 1, 2 and 3 above.

A working unit that is getting on well, has an already established activity even to

Thus the pattern can be held.

internal training, is not the right target for an Esto to reorganize.

If it is, the wins are fantastic.

His whole activity should be to get it support and new trainees for it. His internal functions should be minimal so long as it runs well.

It is an easy pattern to hold.

He helps it without hindering it.

It can be done.

Putting a unit there that is already there is a bit foolish

ORGS ARE BUILT OF PEOPLE.

The right thing to do is get it help and support!

ESTOs WORK DIRECTLY WITH PEOPLE.

Example: An exec who really turns out the production. Seven Esto should groove in his communicator and support lines and hat hell out of them.

And the pattern of the work is 1, 2 and 3 above.

Example: A Mimeo Section that runs like a bomb. The Esto recruits new in-trainings for it, eases its supply problems and better establishes the outside lines into it.

You keep what’s established going.

New brooms may sweep clean. New Estos know their scene. And then establish what isn’t established, or its support lines. To do otherwise can hurt a working unit or activity.

Know what disestablishes.

Then you won’t accidentally tear down faster than you build up. The hallmark of the good Esto is

Sometimes he is unlucky and has disestablishing going on. Sometimes he is very lucky and only has to maintain!