Having developed a successful and standardized pattern of organizational form and function, L. Ron Hubbard turned his attention to developing a strategy that resolved the problems associated with managing an international network of organizations.
He made the first significant advances on the subject of logic since ancient Greece while researching the ground-breaking Data Series of policy letters. This material was later released as the Data Series Evaluators Course, first as a pilot to the Advanced Sea Organizations, then to the lower Saint Hills, and finally, Class V organizations.
Mr. Hubbard conducted a comprehensive study of all existing public relations theories and practices. He released his discoveries, known as the PR Series, which provided an entirely analytical and ethical approach to the subject of public relations.
He continued technically refining standard Dianetics procedures for what would become the Expanded Dianetics and the powerful L Rundowns. He continued to codify the Case Supervision series of HCOBs, as well.
The series recorded in 1970
1970
Flag Executive Briefing Course
11 lectures
In the closing weeks of 1970, executives from Scientology organizations across the world arrived aboard the flagship Apollo for a course unlike anything that had preceded it on the administrative line. The Flag Executive Briefing Course had been designated by L. Ron Hubbard earlier that year as the management counterpart of the Class VIII Course in auditing — the summit of executive training, built atop the Organization Executive Course. The lectures gathered here are the spoken spine of that original course: an opening talk to the assembled students on 17 November 1970, followed by the main body of briefings delivered at Flag between 18 January and 3 February 1971.
The moment was a singular one. Hubbard opens the series by taking stock of the year just ended, telling his students that 1970 had produced the greatest advances in administrative technology — and, in fact, in auditing technology — since 1950. This was the period in which the policy of nearly two decades was being codified into the Organization Executive Course volumes, the Data Series was establishing a genuine technology of evaluation and the Personnel, Organizing and Public Relations Series were taking form. Aboard the ship, technical research was running in parallel: the welcome lecture touches on upper-level OT research then in progress and on the testing of auditing approaches designed to make an organization's own staff more able and more productive. The FEBC lectures sit at the junction of these lines, carrying material so newly developed that, as Hubbard remarks, the research had outrun the written issues — the students were receiving the basics directly, ahead of policy.
The central breakthrough of the series is the Product Officer/Org Officer system. Across two lectures Hubbard lays out the division of executive function into one officer who names, demands and obtains the organization's products and another who organizes and corrects so that production can occur at all — and then devotes a further sequence to the third leg of the structure, the HAS, the post that establishes the org itself: its personnel, its hats, its lines and spaces. Lectures on how to post an org, on the resources available to the Org Officer and on what Hubbard calls the coins of the organization work the system down to practical detail, while the concluding talk on the FEBC org board examines organizational form from the standpoint of valuable final products. A separate briefing, PR Becomes a Subject, presents public relations as an exact, standard-procedure technology rather than an instinctive art, framing administration itself as something akin to auditing on the third dynamic — many preclears instead of one, handled with standard procedure at speed.
What the listener encounters is Hubbard at close range, addressing a small body of senior students in the direct, unceremonious register of the shipboard course room — dating his briefings in years AD, fielding responses from the group, moving freely between organizational theory, current research and pointed practical instruction. The final lectures have the character of marching orders: As You Return to Your Org is literally the dispatch briefing for the departing executive director, product officer and org officer teams, sending the first FEBC graduates home with the programs assembled by the Flag bureaux to set their organizations booming.
The series occupies a distinct place in the chronology of the subject. It marks the point at which the administrative discoveries of 1970 were first taught as a unified body to the people who would run the orgs, and the Product Officer/Org Officer/HAS structure presented here became the working framework of Scientology organizational management — extended the following year by the Establishment Officer system, which grew directly out of the establishment functions examined in these talks. Recorded between November 1970 and February 1971, the lectures preserve the founding of executive training at Flag in Hubbard's own voice.
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