Ref:

• HCO PL 12 Oct. 67 OPERATIONAL, DEFINITION OF
• HCO PL 4 May 68 HANDLING SITUATIONS
• HCO PL 26 Jan. 72 Admin Know-How Series 29 Executive Series 5 NOT-DONES, HALF-DONES AND BACKLOGS

Since December 1971 there has been a new command policy with regard to handling projects and CLOs and orgs.

WHEN IT HAS TO BE HANDLED, HANDLE THE HELL OUT OF IT.

The reference is the HCO PL (26 Jan 72) on NOT-DONES, HALF-DONES AND BACKLOGS.

But it is more important than that.

You can spread a lot of invested time over a wide area and get no result. This is a sort of puttering around.

The way to really get someplace is give priority to definite whole actions. This is done on order of value of result. “We’ll do Area A, B, C and D in that order! Now we’ll take A and handle the hell out of it, terminatedly finished done, total. We can be getting B ready meanwhile. But with A done we now get B done. And so on. We handle hell out of what we’re handling.”

The accuracy and extent of handling determines whether something is well handled.

Actually, you’re dealing with the definition of fully operational.

Something is fully operational when it FUNCTIONS WITHOUT FURTHER CARE OR ATTENTION.