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Posted by one of my heroes, Zephyr Teachout, on the Dean Blog, kicking off a free-swim comment board:
An Orientation of the Spirit
What's on your mind this morning? What are you doing today for democracy?
If you look out the office window over to Lake Champlain, you see just a long flat sheet of brilliant white snow, bright as a mirror, between the city and the mountains on the other side in New York state.
In the front office, a volunteer has photocopied this quote from Vaclav Havel:
“Either we have hope within us or we don’t; it is a dimension of the soul, an orientation of the spirit, an orientation of the heart -- not the conviction that something will turn out well, but the certainty that something makes sense."
Thank you so much for the amazing work of all the phone bankers to Wisconsin, to the dialing for Dean group, and to the hundreds of people who went to Wisconsin to help canvass. The orientation of the spirit of the Dean community is powerful, committed and deeply hopeful, in the best sense -- having the kind of hope you are willing to work for, not just talk about.
If you saw Dean's speech last night, he talked about how you are changing the very heart and soul of the Democratic Party, and the country. You are incredible.
We need both heroes and results.
Posted by David Weinberger on February 18, 2004 11:38 AM | Permalink to CommentVirtual organizations can only leverage excellence in performance. They are unencumbered by the hierarchies, corporate mythologies, it's-the-nature-of-the-business rationalizations that forms the fugitive foundations of traditional organizations. However, VO's must operate at a higher standard.
We can reward the magnificent failures and punish the mediocre successes, to paraphrase Tom Peters, but the VO must acknowledge what went wrong to move past its failure. It's better to allow criticism as part of the process. Good intentions don't mean squat.
DH - making so much sense I should be paid for it
Posted by Dan Herzlich on February 18, 2004 01:27 PM | Permalink to Comment
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We don't need heroes, we need results.
No matter how flawed or imperfect you might feel Kerry is, he has the big MO to overcome Bush.
If Blog for America were a lake, you could walk across it because it's so thickly frozen with platitudes. The Dean campaign can do no wrong, and as it turns out, no right either.
Dean should talk about the mistakes that brought down his campaign during today's press conference, not how he and his supporters are going to change American politics from a sidelines position.
DH
Posted by Dan Herzlich on February 18, 2004 10:55 AM | Permalink to Comment