POWER CHANGE

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Definitions

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)