[StrategyPlan] Strategy Plan Announcement

[Bert]

Jim,

I wouldn't say you've blown it at all. Kendra and I started that wiki 
page set last Sunday morning. What is there now was "thrown up" while we 
were on the phone together simply as a way to get started. It is still 
very much a work-in-progress.

As a second step, Kendra has collated the emails sent to this list - 
including your suggestions and has sent me the file. My part of "step 2" 
is to put all of that information into the wiki pages "as best I can".

The third step was to then ask for what would then be the second round 
of opinions on (what would then be) the "prototype".

Also, and just to set the record straight, what you attribute as "Bert's 
original idea" wasn't mine at all. I have yet to advocate what should or 
should not be the content of our party strategy. I have argued only that:

(a) Whatever discussion points are decided upon, whether that's a list 
of questions or something else entirely, should be open to active input 
from the various county parties.

(b) That we all recognize that any goals, and strategy to acheive those 
goals, implies "tasks to be done".

(c) That we must agree ahead of time what "completion" means for each 
task (or set of tasks).

(d) That responsibility for those tasks has to be both assigned and 
accepted, and that part of that responsibility is agreeing to some 
manner of deadline.

(e) That there must be ongoing and active monitoring of our progress 
toward our goals.

I am trying to express my feeling that we must teach ourselves that we 
can have reasonable expectations of one another and, furthermore, that 
the best way to satisfy those expectations is to learn to practice the 
most basic of management techniques. I know we're not a business and 
that we cannot run GPCA as though it were a business. But I also know 
that any strategy, no matter how well conceived, will not survive lack 
of execution.

Bert Heuer




Jim Stauffer wrote:
> 
> I really blew it on this one. I somehow missed Kendra's message on 
> Thursday morning. Then I was out all day Friday and just saw the message 
> last night.
> 
> I was going to send it out today and then push the CC for a follow-up 
> message to send next Thursday.
> 
> But, in preparing the message I revisited the wiki, which I hadn't seen 
> in a while, and I have to ask if that's really the final version.
> 
> There are two headings with sub-lists of specific topics:
> 
>     http://wiki.cagreens.org/index.php/GPCA_Strategic_Action_Plan
> 
> > This seems to be Bert's original idea based on the counties getting a 
> set of questions they're suppose to answer. But now we're sending out 
> just three broad categories to catch all comments.
> 
> Consider the responses we're going to get. The counties, or 
> county-groups, will send minutes or notes of their meeting. They will 
> contain a variety of opinions and topics in no categorized manner. We 
> (whoever will do this) will have to sort through these messages and 
> copy/paste each item into a category/sub-topic.
> 
> The wiki has to be structured to accommodate this. We need one level for 
> counties to submit their minutes. Then we need a structure of 
> category/sub-topics for discussion threads.
> 
> Here's an update of a suggestion I made a while back:
> 
> L1 - Main Page
> 
>      Posts from county/group meetings
> 
>      Index (of L2 headings):
> 
>  L2 - Immediate Future (up to Nov 2012) Goals page
> 
>       Index (of L3 headings):
> 
>       Political Goals
>         L3 - Partisan and non-partisan candidates page
>         L3 - Campaigns and ballot proposition page
>         L3 - Election reforms page
> 
>       Other topics are gathered on the L2 page
> 
>       Internal / Party Goals
>         L3 - Voter registration page
>         L3 - Developing county Locals page
>         L3 - Fundraising page
>         L3 - Internal structure and administration page
> 
>       Other topics are gathered on the L2 page
> 
>   L2 - Five Year Goals
> 
>         [same index of L3 headings]
> 
>   L2 - Ten Year Goals
> 
>         [same index of L3 headings]
> ----------------------
> 
> Or, we could switch the L2s and L3s:
> 
> 
>   L2 - Partisan and non-partisan candidates page
> 
>         L3 - Immediate Future (up to Nov 2012)
>         L3 - Five Year Goals
>         L3 - Ten Year Goals
> 
>   L2 - etc.
> 
>     (This structure might actually be best)
> --------------------------
> 
> But we need to get this set up before we send the announcement. There 
> may be individuals who want to comment before their county has a meeting.
> 
> 
> Jim
> 
> P.S.   Bert - I think it's time you subscribed to this list. We're past 
> the planning phase and now into the input and wiki maintenance phase.
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> 
> On 1/6/2011 9:33 AM, Kendra Gonzales wrote:
>> Great! Thank you.
>> Kendra Gonzales
>>
>> ------------------------------------------------------------------------------ 
>>
>> *From:* Jim Stauffer <jims at greens.org>
>> *To:* strategyplan at cagreens.org
>> *Sent:* Wed, January 5, 2011 6:03:52 PM
>> *Subject:* Re: [StrategyPlan] CC on Strategy Plan Announcement
>>
>> I can make the change to the last draft regarding the strategyplan 
>> list as the
>> alternate send-to address and get the message out tomorrow. Messages 
>> sent on
>> weekends have a higher rate of being missed.
>>
>> To clarify, the issue wasn't about prohibiting people from subscribing 
>> to the
>> strategy list, it was about having all responses on the wiki.
>>
>>
>> Jim
>>
>>
>>
> 
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