[StrategyPlan] Strategy Plan Announcement

Sun Jan 9 11:40:06 PST 2011

Hi there, 

May I request that the 2 of you take up the particulars of the Wiki set-up?. I 
am overwhelmed with to-dos (I know I'm not the only one...) and have an in my 
face deadline of creating the entire CCWG Workplan and Budget 2011/2012 to be 
reviewed before next Wednesday's call. wah. 

Lets make sure we take the stress off ourselves that the Wiki will have to be 
"just right" before sending out the announcement. It will evolve and change as 
we go through this process anyway. As long as we have the very basics to start, 
which are the three very broad questions, and the 14 or so other topics....I 
think we're good to go!. 

I will be checking emails constantly as I always do, but need to focus on 
the CCWG Workplan. Go to it gentlemen!. 

ps......Bert are you subscribed to StrategyPlan list?

Kendra Gonzales 
www.vccool.org 
www.cagreens.org/ventura 
"All the energy stored in the Earth's reserves of coal, oil, and natural gas
 is matched  by the energy from 20 days of sunshine" ---Union of Concerned 
Scientists 

________________________________
From: Bert <truekahuna at comcast.net>
To: strategyplan at cagreens.org
Sent: Sun, January 9, 2011 10:36:49 AM
Subject: Re: [StrategyPlan] Strategy Plan Announcement

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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