How to Live Though an Executive

Communications Manual

by L. Ron Hubbard

Bridge Publications, 1982, ISBN 0884040100, hardcover, dustjacket

Near Fine Condition, minor edge and shelf wear, minor rubbing and bumping to edges and corners, no inscriptions, dustjacket shows minor edge and shelf wear with a little crumpling and rubbing (see photographs)

“The experience of L. Ron Hubbard in the handling and organizing of communications and communications systems is extensive.  Educated as a mathematician and engineer at George Washington University, he early became interested in problems of human relationships and the applications of electronics thereto.  He has studied and worked in several systems of communication in order to bring this system to perfection.  Such systems included: the United States Army Signal Corps, the Marine Corps system, the Merchant Marine system (including British and Netherlands variations and wartime practise and refinements), U.S. Government communications systems, U.S. Navy systems (including letter mail, filing, radio, codes, networks for amphibious landings, and, most complex of all, combat information centres, as in the handling of fighter planes from carriers and in submarine search and destruction).  The more beneficial points of these systems have been utilized, and their obvious and glaring mistakes have been avoided.
By 1954, the organizations of Scientology were developing rapidly, and the first Church of Scientology was incorporated in Washington, DC.  Hubbard continued to place his personal emphasis on research, writing and lecturing.  It became apparent however, that the rapid expansion of the organisations and Churches required equal expansion of their administration.
Finding the administrative techniques of the day seriously lacking, he developed and implemented an effective technology which first appeared in his books How to Live Though an Executive and Problems of Work
Recognising that the role of the executive is planning and supervision, Mr Hubbard, after a survey of many organisations, originated and composited the systems which are outlined in this book.  He had two chief objects in mind.  One, to save executives’ time and make it possible for them to fill their proper role in an organisation.  Two, to reduce the confusion amongst employees and workers who, served by inadequate communication channels and methods, can have no clear understanding of the problems and concerns of management.”