Ron talks in various places about booming orgs. Apparently, any org Ron was directly connected with boomed. This isn't hard to explain. Anything with Ron's name on it or a direct connection with him was bound to do well. How many people would have bought his musical albums if they didn't have his name on them. How well do you think Battlefield Earth would have sold if Ron didn't have a captive audience of Scientologists to buy it? Let's face it, no matter how good the prose, it had been thirty years since Ron had written anything in fiction; most had probably forgotten him.

The real test for a booming org would be one with no connection to LRH. I think Boston was set to be the paradigm for this. Missions were sent to boom Boston, and supposedly it happened. But there are those who argue the targets were falsified and the org sagged shortly thereafter. Maybe, maybe not. I don't know. One thing is for sure, there was a shortage of booming orgs and always has been.

Oddly the contrast with missions was apparently stark. Missions succeeded where Orgs failed. Ron never figured out why. I don't know that a mission or invest was ever fired to figure this out. But as one who suffered in a perpetually failing org, visited another and witnessed a very successful mission in operation, I can attest that missions usually outdid orgs. Question is why?