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A Danger Condition is normally assigned when:
1. An emergency condition has continued too long.
2. A statistic plunges downward very steeply.
3. A senior executive suddenly finds himself or herself wearing the hat of the activity be-cause it is in trouble.
1. Bypass habits or normal routines.
2. Handle the situation and any danger in it.
3. Assign self a Danger Condition.
4. Get in your own personal ethics by finding what you are doing that is out-ethics and use self-discipline to correct it and get honest and straight.
5. Reorganize your life so that the dangerous situation is not continually happening to you.
6. Formulate and adopt firm policy that will hereafter detect and prevent the same situation from continuing to occur.
1. Promote. That applies to an organization. (To an individual you had better say produce.) That’s the first action regardless of any other action, regardless of anything else, that is the first thing you have to put their attention on. The first broad big action which you take is promote. Exactly what is promotion? Well, look it up in the dictionary. It is making things known; it is getting things out; it is getting one’s self known, getting one’s products out.
2. Change your operating basis. If for instance you went into a condition of emergency and then you didn’t change after you had promoted, you didn’t make any changes in your operation, well you just headed for another condition of emergency.
So that has to be part of it, you had better do something to change your operating basis, be-cause that operating basis leads you into an emergency, so you sure better change it.
3. Economize.
4. Then prepare to deliver.
5. Part of the Condition of Emergency contains this little line-you have got to stiffen discipline or you have got to stiffen Ethics. Organizationally when a state of emergency is as-signed, supposing the activity doesn’t come out of that emergency, regardless of what caused the emergency, in spite of the fact they have been labeled a state of emergency, they have been directed to follow the formula, they have been told to snap and pop and get that thing straightened out, and they are still found to be goofing, the statistic is going down and continues to go down, what do you do? There is only one thing left to do and that is discipline, because life itself is going to discipline the individual.
So the rule of the game is that if a state of emergency is ignored and the steps are not taken successfully then you get an announcement after a while that the condition has been continued and if the condition is continued beyond a specified time, why that’s it, it has to walk forward into an Ethics matter.
1. The way you maintain an increase is when you are in a state of Normal Operation you don’t change anything.
2. Ethics are very mild, the justice factor is quite mild, there are no savage actions taken particularly.
3. A statistic betters-then look it over carefully and find out what bettered it and then do that without abandoning what you were doing before.
4. Every time a statistic worsens slightly, quickly find out why and remedy it.
And you just jockey those two factors, the statistic bettering, the statistic worsening, repair the statistic worsening, and you will find out inevitably some change has been made in that area where a statistic worsens. You had better get that change off the lines in a hurry.
1. Economize. Now the first thing you must do in Affluence is economize, and then make very, very sure that you don’t buy anything that has any future commitment to it. Don’t buy anything with any future commitments, don’t hire anybody with any future commitments-nothing. That is all part of that economy, clamp it down.
2. Pay every bill. Get every bill that you can possibly scrape up from any place, every penny you owe anywhere under the sun, moon and stars, and pay them.
3. Invest the remainder in service facilities, make it more possible to deliver.
4. Discover what caused the Condition of Affluence and strengthen it.
1. The first law of a Condition of Power is don’t disconnect. You can’t just deny your connections, what you have got to do is take ownership and responsibility for your connections.
2. The first thing you have got to do is make a record of all of its lines. And that is the only way you will ever be able to disconnect. So on a Condition of Power the first thing you have to do is write up your whole post. You have made it possible for the next fellow in to assume the state of Power Change.
If you don’t write up your whole post you are going to be stuck with a piece of that post since time immemorial and a year or so later somebody will still be coming to you asking you about that post which you occupied.
3. The responsibility is write the thing up and get it into the hands of the guy who is going to take care of it.
4. Do all you can to make the post occupable.
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 norm ally would have been in for anybody to have been promoted out of it, you just don’t change any-thing.
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 any-thing 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.
WISHING YOU SUCCESS.
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