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Scientology Books
November 11, 2012    
This was written by L. Ron Hubbard and Richard deMille in 1953, and might be seen as a starting point for LRH's thoughts on organization. One chapter is "Why organizations act psychotic". The need for clear communication lines, separate from command lines and other activities is emphasised. The system of paper messages with multiple carbon-copies described is perfectly logical, but could have been onerus to implement with 1950s methods. These days we can do something similar by emails within an organisation, when carbon-copies just mean an extra mouse click.
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Classic management text

This was written by L. Ron Hubbard and Richard deMille in 1953, and might be seen as a starting point for LRH's thoughts on organization. One chapter is "Why organizations act psychotic". The need for clear communication lines, separate from command lines and other activities is emphasised. The system of paper messages with multiple carbon-copies described is perfectly logical, but could have been onerus to implement with 1950s methods. These days we can do something similar by emails within an organisation, when carbon-copies just mean an extra mouse click.

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Pros
Some very clever insights into how organizations work, and why they often don't.
The first application of Theta-MEST theory to organizations (by analogy to organisms).
Shows the need for clear communication lines.
Cons
Some of the information is not readily useable now, as the system proposed has been replaced by LRH's later developments in management.

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