SINGLE VIEWPOINT SYSTEM

operations in any business or air force or navy heretofore has always been a single viewpoint system. There was the general manager in Poughkeepsie. There were the branch offices all over the U * 8. There on the wall is a map. Pins for each branch office, a big pin is the main office in Poughkeepsie. Ribbons leading from each branch office to the main office. And there's the general manager looking out at these branch offices. He hears something on the phone or the janitor about Torgueville. He sees this situation as it looks from Poughkeepsie. And he issues his snap orders. And the company struggles along somehow. Any general sitting on a hill looking at the strung out battle used that same moth-eaten system. Every major company, every air force uses it. Been traditional since there were main offices or headquarters. And orders can get pretty unreal. (FBDL 192R)