The Æscirian Institute for Articulate Management is a specialty executive consulting firm. We offer Affirmative Direction, a comprehensive step-by-step management philosophy and method that clearly articulates company vision, goals and strategies, and automatically stimulates employee alignment with them. Affirmative Direction generates increased earnings and unprecedented levels of corporate integrity.

Working as private consultants to top executives, Articulate Management has spent the past several years quietly applying advanced philosophy to assist already-successful Presidents, CEO's and their managers in doubling and even tripling their companies' growth and/or profitability curves.

We have developed a way to ensure that your ideas get across to your people effectively, so they can take them as their own and run with them with minimal supervision. This usually increases productivity more than 25% while comparably reducing administrative and disciplinary drag on executives.

We have developed a management method that focuses you and your people on affirmatively pursuing what you want rather than negatively avoiding what you don't want. It helps your people find their own reasons for doing excellent work. This can facilitate general performance improvements of over 40%.

We have assisted clients to achieve many specific results, including:

Doubling a working General Manager's throughput;
Obtaining a 10X improvement in a major division of a public utility;
Tripling an engineering firm's profits while virtually eliminating interpersonal friction;
Reducing turnover in client companies by an average of 50% or more the first year;
Increasing profitability in every client for whom profit was the primary value;
Increasing an owner's productivity while recovering 2-3 hours per day for his family;
Removing the stress and guesswork from dealing with staff; and,
Assisting scores of top executives to rediscover the joys of their work (and lives).

The power of our methods is that they are based on mutual respect and a practical philosophy. Further, we have a special insight into the difficulties involved in communicating vision and motivating people to rally to the future it describes.

Our strategy is to enhance the abilities of leaders to stimulate people to achieve admirable results. Our purpose is to make work (and life) more rewarding by replacing stress and conflict with harmony and initiative.

The Æscirian Institute for Articulate Management is a mission to the business community which seeks to reverse the seemingly inevitable trend toward the consumption of the lives and identities of people by the very businesses upon which they must depend to derive their necessities of life. The beneficiaries of this mission are the children of tomorrow, in that our success or failure may well decide whether theirs is a future of stifling regimentation and corporate servitude, or one of limitless possibilities to make individual contributions to the honor of the human spirit, in the process raising the standard of living for the entire world, as they have in renaissances past.

Allen Hacker, founder and Executive Director of the Institute, has applied his expertise in General Semantics (a linguistic theory) to the problem of how people envision their businesses and their roles as business executives, managers, employees and customers. He has published a book on personal philosophy explaining how the way we think defines our personal experience of life, and has used the principles from that work in consulting business executives for over twelve years. And he has established an organization composed of Ecclesiastical, Educational and Humanitarian Trusts, each charged with adapting that philosophy to a distinct area of human endeavor. Accordingly, The Æscirian Institute for Articulate Management, as a mission rather than a business for profit, is organized as an Humanitarian Trust (ID# 77-0313297).

The goal of The Æscirian Institute for Articulate Management is ¨to have established a universal business and social ethic and practice based on mutual respect¨, which will in turn bring about ¨the world at peace, with benevolent commerce the foremost social enthusiasm¨.