1. the
formula of the power
change condition is: when taking over a new
post change nothing until you are thoroughly familiar with your new zone of
power.
(OODs 5 Apr 70) 2. there are only two circumstances which require replacement, the very
successful one or the very unsuccessful one. What a
song it is to inherit a
successful pair of
boots, there is nothing to it, just
step in the
boots and
don't bother to
walk. If it was in a
normal state of
operation, which it normally would have been in for anybody to have been promoted out of it, you just
don't
change anything. So anybody wants anything signed that your
predecessor didn't sign,
don't sign it. Keep your eyes
open, learn the ropes and depending on how big the
organization is, after a certain
time, why, see how it is
running and
run it as
normal operating condition if it's not in anything but a
normal operating condition. Go through the exact same
routine of every
day that your
predecessor went through, sign nothing that he wouldn't sign,
don't
change a
single order,
look through the papers that had been issued at that
period of
time-these are the orders that are
extant, and get as busy as the
devil just enforcing those orders and your
operation will increase and increase. Now the fellow who walks into the
boots of somebody who has
left in disgrace had
better apply the
state of
emergency formula to it, which is immediately
promote.
(HCO PL 23 Sept 67) 3. a
state of power
change is where you have a
company running all
right, let us say, but the
general manager has been hired by some other
company because he has such a
successful record, and his
job is taken over.
(SH Spec 67, 6505C25)