{"id":125897,"date":"2024-02-03T10:33:26","date_gmt":"2024-02-03T18:33:26","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=125897"},"modified":"2024-02-03T10:34:16","modified_gmt":"2024-02-03T18:34:16","slug":"c-11-e-18a-18b-jonestown-business-and-financial-problems","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/jonestown.sdsu.edu\/?page_id=125897","title":{"rendered":"C-11-e-18a \u2013 18b \u2022 <br>Jonestown business and financial problems"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>C-11-e-18a<\/p>\n<p>Factors to consider in the Jtn-Gtn [Jonestown-Georgetown] business and financial problems<\/p>\n<p>Jonestown \u2013 primary view<\/p>\n<p>1) Coordination: Administration is presently very deficient and is not coordinated \u2026 slightly, perhaps \u2026 but not on any efficient basis. How do I know? Because the records they should be asking for are not being asked for. Therefore, without that information they are only administering half-assed but undoubtedly with all good intentions.<\/p>\n<p>To correct this \u2013 need to set up a simple log chart and see that the input comes in\u2026 #1<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Plan the organization time required to handle the evaluation of the input you receive\u2026 #2<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Coordinate the follow-up from Rally, steering, ACAO\u2019s and Analysts, and see that you get reports indicating that the follow-up is completed. #3<\/p>\n<p>\u2013 Organizing the personal time into a block-type of schedule is a must or there will never be sufficient time allocated for administration\u2026 #4<\/p>\n<p>#4 is perhaps the key to the entire problem\u2026<\/p>\n<p>When we refer to block-time, this means allocation of areas of work per the number of hours needed daily: see the material I completed for you on administration \u2013 note the chart on that page or thereabouts with the % of time needed for organization\u2026 THIS MUST BE ALLOWED FOR \u2013 and used that way. This will not be done unless you keep a personal schedule and take 15 minutes at the end of each day to plan your next day\u2026 You can tentatively plan the week ahead with appropriate time blocks\u2026 But this will change daily: you need a score sheet yourself on how much time this week, for instance you had given to organization\u2026<\/p>\n<p>[Handwritten personal note: &#8220;PR time is separate from administration <u>entirely<\/u>!&#8221;]<\/p>\n<p>Determine how much sleep and personal time, including laundry and bathing and eating \u2013 plus &#8220;some&#8221; free time\u2026 then allocate the rest of your time into the blocks\u2026 You spend time with the baby also, and this needs to be counted for\u2026 It is possible to get a phenomenal amount done in small amounts of time if they are organized and planned appropriately.<\/p>\n<p>Georgetown primary view<\/p>\n<p>I feel very sick when I look at what is coming down in this arena\u2026<\/p>\n<p>1) Coordination \u2013 requires an independent initiator who is willing to work within an agreed-to plan\u2026 This presupposes that a plan has been laid out. In our instance, I do not feel that a Gtn plan, per se, exists \u2026 but rather \u2013 a supposition of what should be done and changes kaleidoscopically with every new coordinator that goes in, however well intentioned. I think a plan must be devised for Gtn\u2026 and the people planned into that structure.<\/p>\n<p>2) The functions in town must be divided, but still coordinated: I would separate into: BUSINESS EFFORTS (boat, etc.), FAMILY SERVICES AND JONESTOWN SHOPPERS, and PUBLIC RELATIONS &amp; POLITICAL STAFF. Understandably these will at times overlap \u2013 but over all of this should be a general coordinator with the authority to do just <u>that<\/u>. Primary persons in each department should be stabile [stable] and rotate within time cycles. The workers can be switched as needed, if the primary persons are functioning.<\/p>\n<p>&#8212;&#8211;<\/p>\n<p>C-11-e-18b<\/p>\n<p>A careful evaluation of the pro\u2019s and con\u2019s must be given\u2026 of course, but I would like to see us consider very seriously either purchase or leasing of a very large warehouse on the waterfront\u2026 I would handle the PR out of the house, and everything else out of the business structure.<\/p>\n<p>We are operating a multi-million dollar operation out of our hip pocket and it is costing us a fortune in errors and miscalculations. It would be cheaper to set up a structure from which to operate \u2013 as it appears to me, perhaps others can see this differently and am certainly not fixed in my opinion \u2013 is just how it looks from this point in time.<\/p>\n<p>One person should remain in the office on the phone, and another to maintain and supervise the warehouse. If a group of 3 or 4 for each physician were trained in there together and set it up so that one in each post could function and operate, then we could rotate them\u2026 The &#8220;work crews&#8221; could be varied as the need changed\u2026 Distribution of our merchandise could be handled out of Gtn \u2026 and the warehouse would suffice in both &#8220;holding&#8221; items from customs, merchandise for distribution, perhaps eventually our PRINTING AND BUSINESS SERVICES (TYPEWRITER REPAIR, ETC., &amp; RENTAL BUSINESS), and any others that we might envision\u2026 along with a snack shop for the business people in the area for coffee and sandwiches and sodas\u2026 The meetings with general coordinator could alternate between the business location resident and the house residents\u2026 I would launch a few strong ones in each place \u2026 then have the general coordinator meet with each group of them, alternately.<\/p>\n<p>I think that the general coordinator or the TOWN ADMINISTRATOR will have to fall within the same TIME BLOCK LIMITS as I have mentioned before out here \u2013 with sufficient time allocated to planning and organizing and CONTROLLING or it will never happen that we shall have our town organization structures. Without that structure, we will not make the money our potential allows\u2026<\/p>\n<p>3) Greatest weakness (in my opinion) which must not be overlooked:<\/p>\n<p>Primary would be the sharpshooters: We have a group of people that consistently shoot down structures that we get going and initiate. Instead of finding the problems and mending our fences, we seem to prefer to rip out existing fences and build new ones too frequently. In business this is known to be extremely costly. Perhaps it would be wiser to include the sharpshooters in the planning stage so they have a personal investment in the structure\u2026 When the tasks are seen in total it is easy to see that a person doesn&#8217;t want to be involved in so much work\u2026 usually that will ease some of the control urges that instigate the sharpshooters taking aim.<\/p>\n<p>Right now, I see them gathering\u2026 Certainly looks like Richard is messing up. However, it is likely that some people can go so long without sex and no longer; perhaps this should be considered initially instead of down the line. His problem seems to be personal if he took 5 hours talking about it\u2026 that usually means sexual\u2026<\/p>\n<p>I would recommend putting Happy Acres lease in another name, pulling Claire [Janaro] out of there to Jtn, bringing them together in a less tense environment and then if they work out the tensions send Richard back to Gtn for intervals less long \u2026 as one of a rotating business team. I hate to see what I see coming down\u2026 In past times, it has cost us so much I hate to count it\u2026<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>C-11-e-18a Factors to consider in the Jtn-Gtn [Jonestown-Georgetown] business and financial problems Jonestown \u2013 primary view 1) Coordination: Administration is presently very deficient and is not coordinated \u2026 slightly, perhaps \u2026 but not on any efficient basis. How do I know? Because the records they should be asking for are not being asked for. 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