The entire, complete and only major source of Dev T is ignorance or failure tograsp CONFUSION AND THE STABLE DATUM as covered fully in "Problems ofWork" (and LRH Tapes of 1956).
Unless an executive or staff member fully grasps the basic principles of Confusionand a Stable Datum then the org board is completely over his head, the reason forposts is not understood and Dev T becomes routine.
A post on the org board is the STABLE POINT. If it is not held by someone itwill generate confusion. If the person that is holding it isn't really holding it, theconfusion inherent in that area on the org board zooms all over the place near andfar.
Any executive getting Dev T knows at once what posts are not held becauseDev T is the confusion that should have been handled in that area by someone on post.With that stable terminal not stable, Dev T shoots about.
Excessive transfers in an org promote fantastic Dev T as the posts do not reallyget held as people are on them too briefly. "Musical chairs" (excessive transfers) candestroy an org or area.
The remedy is to get people trained up (OEC) to handle their posts, to get peopleon post who do handle their posts.
An essential part of such training is a study of "Problems of Work" and a fullgrasp of how a stable terminal handles and prevents Confusion. If the person cannotfully grasp this principle, he is below the ability to conceive of terminals and barelyable to perceive lines. He cannot communicate since there are no terminals to him.
If an area remote from an executive does not contain a stable point to which hecan send his comm and get it handled, then his comm only enters Dev T into the areaand he gets back floods of despatches and problems but no real handling. The area isnot organized and does not have people in it who have grasped "Problems of Work" orhow it applies to an Org Board or even why there is an Org Board.
Communicating into a disorganized area without first organizing it to have at leastone stable terminal is foolishness.
An Org Board is that arrangement of persons, lines and actions which classifiestypes of confusions and gives a stable terminal to each type. It is as effective as itspeople can conceive of terminals and understand the basic principle of Confusions andStable Data.
A good executive arranges personnel and organization to handle types of actionsand confusions. He does not broadly Comm into disorganized areas except to organizethem. Any area which gives an executive excessively Developed Traffic (Dev T) is anarea where the persons supposed to be the stable terminals in that area are not holdingtheir posts and do NOT understand what they are or why and do not know what anOrg Board is and have never understood the Scientology fundamental known asConfusion and the Stable Datum. They are NOT doing their post or organizing theirareas.
An executive's evidence of this is the receipt from there of Dev T.
The executive's action is to get somebody THERE, get him to understandConfusion and the Stable Datum and how it applies to posts as Stable Terminals, gethim trained up and use that now stable point to handle further confusions.
If an executive goes on handling Dev T of people who are not stable terminalsthat handle their areas, HE WILL BE FORCED TO WORK HARDER THAN IF THEPOST WERE EMPTY. At least if it were empty, he would get only the confusion ofthat area. As it is if the post is improperly held and wobbly he gets not only the areaconfusion but also the enturbulation of the wobbly incumbent.
Volumes could be written about this subject. But there is no reason whatever notto be able to grasp the fundamentals concerning confusion and stable data, confusionand stable terminals, apply it to Org Boards, to areas and to expansion.
Chaos is the basic situation in this universe. To handle it you put in order.
Order goes in by being and making stable terminals arranged to handle types ofaction and confusion.
In organizing units, sections, divs, depts, orgs or areas of orgs you build by stableterminals.
You solve areas by reinforcing stable terminals.
Executives who do not grasp this live lives of total harassment and confusion.
The whole secret of organization, the whole problem of Dev T, the basicingredient of all expansion is contained in this.
L. RON HUBBARDFounder