Groups

by L. Ron Hubbard, selected quotes, January 1951

"No amount of rules or directives can create a group. A group consists of perpetuating and perpetuated ideas formulated into a central mores and ethic - in other words, a culture."

"The effect of an indivudual on a group rises in proportion to his altitude in the group."

"Management could be said to be the planning of means to attain goals and their assignation for execution to staff and the proper coordination of activities within the group to attain maximal efficiency with minimal effort to attain determined goals."

"To be effective and successful a manager must understand as fully as possible the goals and aims of the group he manages."

"The successful participant of a group is that participant who closely approximates, in his own activities, the ideal, ethic and rationale of the overall group."

"That group which values its survival as a group at all would do well to learn group necessity value and how to express it."