INCOMPLETE STAFF WORK

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Definitions

1. if you are mad at your boss you can always ruin him with incomplete staff work. You forward him a fragment of alarming data without collecting the whole picture. This makes him do a full job of information collection. You give him no recommended solution. This makes him have to achieve a solution by remote examination of data; then you make him issue arbitrary and forceful orders that may ARC break (upset) some area and hurt his reputation. (HCO PL 21 Nov 62)

2. it is incomplete because I have to complete it by (1) assembling the data necessary for a solution; (2) dreaming up the solution based on written data only; (3) issuing orders rather than approving orders. (HCO PL 21 Nov 62)