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• Document Type: CREST
• Collection: General CIA Records
• Document Number (FOIA) /ESDN (CREST): CIA-RDP76-00183R000500030009-9
• Release Decision: RIPPUB
• Original Classification: S
• Document Page Count: 2
• Document Creation Date: November 17, 2016
• Document Release Date: August 3, 2000
• Sequence Number: 9
• Publication Date: October 26, 1964
• Content Type: NOTES

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25X1 A DD/S
26 October 1964
25X1A6a I spent the day at observing the Senior Management Seminar.
a. I visited each of the five groups of approximately seven members
each and, after listening to their discussions, judged that they are very
interested in the program and are working effectively. I think that the
results of this Seminar will be at least as favorable as the other course
which we have already completed.
b. I also listened to a lengthy presentation by to the 25X1A5a1
assembled group. He was obviously well versed in the subject, had done
a great deal of reading, research, etc., and made a very favorable im-
pression. I was pleased to find that he talked about the same kinds of
things which Harvard or any other good management school talks about.
I concluded, therefore, that the managerial grid is simply an administra-
tive gimmick or device to force the participants through a set of mental
gymnastics in the examination of a given problem or in the examination
of themselves as members of a team trying to solve a management
problem. The system itself did not appear to be overly complicated, and
I don't see why with a little training it could not be run by our own Man-
agement Training faculty or even by an Office Head with a little assistance
from the Management Training faculty. It seemed to me that it would be
a good vehicle through which we might sustain the interest and enthusiasm
of those people who have had management training and that it might be ex-
panded eventually to all grade levels.
c . I spent about an hour talking ri with (Bob 25X1 A5a 1
25X1A9a sat in for parts of our dis-
25X1A5a1 cuss on, i e=is sold on the managerial grid and has no reserva-
tions about its results, he suggested that we run a pilot project in order
to satisfy ourselves. He would choose an office in which the Office Head "
has attended the Senior Management Seminar, an office that really wants
it, and an office that is interrelated with a number of other components
in the Agency. I think that the Office of Training is inclined to recommend
the Office of Finance for this pilot project. It would take approximately
one to two years to evaluate the project, but it seemed to me that a suc-
cess with the Office of Finance would not prove anything to the rest of
the Agency; even a successful project in the Records Integration Division
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wouldn't prove anything to the other DD/P components. I therefore
think that we might want to conduct a pilot project in each of the four
Directorates provided we can finance and operate four projects at one
time.
LKW :jrf
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