[Sosfbay-discuss] Ideas

[Andrea Dorey]

Great wisdom from afar!  Thank you, Wes, for thinking about it from  
another perspective, especially with regard to the marvelous people  
we have lost  over the years.  I have my ideas about what happened,  
but your suggestion to ask the persons involved is the best way.   
(Maybe we don't ask because we don't want to know.)
Andrea

On Mar 11, 2007, at 8:32 PM, Wes Rolley wrote:

> I am not sure that I have solutions, but I want to make two comments
> regarding Jim's comments about recruiting and retaining people.
>
> The first comment is anecdotal.  I participated in the volunteer  
> driven
> non-profit called the Digital Clubhouse <http://www.digiclub.org/sv/>.
> One of the founders had been a consultant with SRI.  His position was
> that the single most important task for a volunteer organization  
> was to
> recruit and develop your successor.  Then, you can either step aside,
> retire or move on to bigger and better things.  The need to retain  
> power
> is often disguised to ones self as "we need to get this done and no  
> one
> else is stepping up, so I have to do it."
>
> People burn out. Interests change.  The health of any organization,
> especially one driven by volunteers, requires recruiting new leaders,
> giving them a chance to fail, but making sure that they don't.
>
> The second comment is that the best people to ask about why we  
> don't do
> better in retaining people are those who are no longer as active as  
> they
> once were.  For example, Charlotte Casey.  She is still an activist,
> just not with GPSCC.  Maybe the old time members could make that list
> better than I .  We should ask them why they are no longer as active
> and, maybe more importantly, what we could have done to retain them.
>
>
>
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>
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