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Barnard: the authority a subordinate grants

The point, in one line

An instruction has force only if the person it is addressed to accepts it. In a volunteer club you see that every week.

How it works

An instruction lies on paper until the receiver accepts it, and they accept only when four conditions hold at once.

Understands itKnows exactly what is wanted, not roughly.
Helps the clubIt looks to them like it helps the club at all.
Fits their own interestDoes not clash with exams and a job.
Is able to complyHas the time and the energy, mentally and physically.
When something goes undone you can point at the missing condition; it is almost always the first or the third, and almost never laziness.
The same thing, in your club
  1. The situation

    The person who handles communication agreed to write up the event. Two weeks on, nothing.

  2. What the model says

    They understood it and think it useful. But they had two university deadlines that week — the fourth condition was missing.

  3. What you do

    Ask them in one sentence which condition was missing, and agree a new date after that deadline week.

What it claims

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Who created it

CB1938
An illustrated emblem, not a portrait.
Chester Irving Barnard (1886–1961)
1938

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