 Against policy [message #2171] |
Wed, 25 November 2009 22:19  |
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Policy creates structure for an organization. Policy limits errors, waste and creativity. Policy makes the irresponsible produce expected results. It can also corrode high responsibility levels.
A creative, high initiative and responsible person can be structured to carefulness, seriousness and inactivity. Excellence demands more than thinking outside the box - it requires acting outside the limits. Quantum leaps means taking risks, not only managing or mitigating them. Emphasis on policy and structure builds an organizational system, a machine producing the expected output. Geniuses, the wildly creative and people of outstanding initiative and responsibility create the unexpected. Sometimes the brilliant. Sometimes havoc. But desperately avoiding the trouble will leave out the excellent. With policy one can regulate and make all the people behave according to the rules.
There is much to recommend toeing a party line. Well organized groups can raise the standard of output. Toyota comes to mind. Henry Ford pioneered it. But it will never foster an Einstein, an Edison or a Da Vinci.
Individuality must be preserved for an organization to excel. And policy must never replace common, uncommon or even rare sense. The essence of good structure is to keep it minimal and really, really simple. The litmus test is if an organizational concept can be conveyed to a ten year old in 15 minutes. If not, it's too complex, too cumbersome.
Unfortunately some policy is needed. But only because all the people are not brilliant and in constant synchronization. Because an army of telepathic geniuses needs no command.
The Church of Scientology exemplifies a policy heavy organization where rules and structure tend to outshine the very result it aims to produce - individuals of free will, daring and caring well beyond the norm. Reaching one's own potential and freedom is easily suffocated and swallowed by a structured machine where obeying policy is the admired virtue.
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| Re: Against policy [message #2174 is a reply to message #2171 ] |
Wed, 25 November 2009 22:52  |
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This reminds me of an email a friend sent to me today, about the importance of excelency. It ended with something like, the aim of life is not excelency but happiness. (And where the first one impedes the latter, it should be discarted.)
It also reminds me that it doesn't make any sense to carry the boat with us when we reached the desired margin.
(Maybe a car? LOL)
Regards,
anonymuse
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| Re: Against policy [message #2176 is a reply to message #2175 ] |
Wed, 25 November 2009 23:14 |
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From my viewpoint, it's not absolutely true that without training there is no free beings. Life has many ways to awaken, train, teach and conduct people to freedom, a concept that is variable as God, as variable as the variety of beings. So policy is just needed on the outside when there is a lack of conscious inner connection between all beings (see current state of affairs) and thus a lack of agreement. Force is the weapon of the weak (weak in arc, understanding, love). Once again, see current state of wordly affairs. I also don't find it useful nor positive to continue feeding that established difference between the good ones and the bad ones. Maybe the bad ones are all what we deny in ourselves. I don't know. My role is only to see things from as many sides as I can, is to question what seems to be too rigid and fixed, hence dead.
And in the end, we're at the beginning, finding out we have always been there. Funny game this one.
Check out the symbol 'Ouroboros'. It pretty much ilustrates what I am talking about.
Best regards,
anonymuse
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 Re: Against policy [message #2178 is a reply to message #2171 ] |
Wed, 25 November 2009 23:20 |
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Brilliant observation. Very few had LRH's ability to look at things as they were in the moment and then do what it took to change the condition. Although what is mostly takes is the decision not to be a freaking robot and actually LOOK!
Dan
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| Re: Against policy [message #2179 is a reply to message #2171 ] |
Wed, 25 November 2009 23:23 |
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'...not all the people are brilliant'.
Maybe it's not brilliant to see things that way. Maybe that vision creates what we don't want.
Once again, I don't know. I am just questioning with my maybes.
Best regards,
anonymuse
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| Re: Against policy [message #2180 is a reply to message #2179 ] |
Wed, 25 November 2009 23:29 |
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@Dan (Anonymous Participant): You need to register. Want you here permanently 
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| Re: Against policy [message #2207 is a reply to message #2183 ] |
Thu, 26 November 2009 15:30 |
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I recall an episode a few years ago at Flag while I was studying at the library (I mean, pretending to study 'cause I was never a student in the sense of the word, I have always learned everything by listening, even at normal school and still never missed a year) and I suddenly found a book about unicorns in the library. I was so happy and thrilled about it, I have always loved unicorns and to find one of these, with amazing photos, really got me out of this world. So I sat on the floor, out of my mind, delighting myself with such beauty. But then it happened: an ethics officer came by and said: 'What are you doing?' Oops! 'Shit', I thought, 'now I am into trouble.' 'I am reading this book', I said (I love books since I was a little girl). He said 'You can't read that'. And then I realized the extent of the gravity of the situation.
Never again!
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