“How effective can you be? Well, first, you can be effective by doing things that you lay out rather than things which just happen. That’s the best way to be effective, is to do things which you plan, rather than doing things which just happen, just keep smacking you all the time.
“A business executive lays down a plan and then is told by all and sundry* that the plan cannot be carried forward. They spend all of their time telling him the plan can’t be carried forward and he spends all of his time trying to lay down a plan. And you get the deadlock which is known as modern business.
“Well, when you start in auditing, you lay down a plan and you’ll find out that most of the environment that you run into is going on an opposite vector, which is, ‘Let’s all succumb, succumb, succumb. Let’s all succumb.’ And so you’ll find an awful lot of things trying to roll your plans up and stopping them, just like a business executive does. …
“Now you’ve got to predict, change and repredict. You have to be able to predict what’s actually going to happen. And then how much of that you want to change. And then change that for a reprediction. And if you do that, you will be the most comfortable, calm individual anybody ever wanted to do with. And you get all kinds of things done.”
— L. Ron Hubbard
*All and sundry: everybody; one and all
Excerpted from the lecture Prediction delivered on 24 March 1954. This can be found in the 4th American ACC lectures. Track 3.
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