<div dir="ltr">Unlike the Salvation Army, of course, success is very easily defined for a political party. They have to come up with those 4 or 5 goals, then figure out how to quantify them. Being a party comes with a built-in definition of success, which is already quantified: electing people to office.</div><div class="gmail_extra"><br clear="all"><div><div class="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr">Joshua A. Katz<div>Westbrook CT Planning Commission (L in R seat)</div></div></div></div>
<br><div class="gmail_quote">On Wed, Feb 25, 2015 at 6:45 PM, Scott L. <span dir="ltr"><<a href="mailto:scott73@earthlink.net" target="_blank">scott73@earthlink.net</a>></span> wrote:<br><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0 0 0 .8ex;border-left:1px #ccc solid;padding-left:1ex">
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana">At our New Orleans LNC Session last December, the Chair
kindly gave every LNC member a copy of Peter Drucker’s book
“Managing the Nonprofit Corporation.” I finished the book
around Christmas time, and while I was reading it I made a list of interesting citations.
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana">Here is Part <font color="black"><span style="color:black">Two
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua"">Page 5 “<font color="black"><span style="color:black">Nevertheless, non-profit institutions find it very hard to
answer the question: What, then, are “results” in our institution?
It can be done, however. Indeed, results can even be quantified –
at least some of them. The Salvation Army is fundamentally a religious
organization. Nevertheless, it knows the % of alcoholics it restores to
mental and physical health and the % of criminals it rehabilitates. It is
highly quantitative. For many organizations in the non-profit sector, to
be specific about results is still odious. They still believe their work
can only be judged by quality – if at all. Some of them still quite
openly sneer at any attempt to ask: How well are you doing in terms of
the resources you spent? What return do you get?”<u></u><u></u></span></font></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black">For example, I find it
criminal that the National Libertarian Party does not publish a chart that
shows the number <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black">of Elected
Libertarians in office on January 1 of each year since the Party was organized.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:black">Page
142 “Results, are achieved too, by concentration, not
by splintering. That enormous organization the Salvation Army
concentrates on only 4 or 5 programs. Its executives have the courage to
say, “This is not for us. Other people do it better.”
Or, “This is not really what we are good at. Or, “This is not
where we can make the greatest contribution. It does not really fit the strength
we have.”<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black">I would concentrate on
one program – more elected Libertarians.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:black">Page
151 “The most important way to develop people is to use them
as teachers. Nobody learns as much as a good teacher. Selecting someone
to be a teacher is also the most effective recognition. Whether you talk
to salesmen or Red Cross workers, you’ll find that no recognition is
sweeter than to be asked ”Tell us what you do to be so effective.”<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black">We have almost
entirely neglected our Elected Libertarians. I would be cajoling our
State Affiliates to give<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black">their Elected
Libertarians as many speaking opportunities as possible at state and <u></u><u></u>county<u></u> <u></u>LP<u></u><u></u>
events, <u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
<p class="MsoNormal"><font color="black" face="Verdana"><span style="font-size:10.0pt;font-family:Verdana;color:black">and directing
potential candidates for local offices to ask their state’s Elected
Libertarians for advice.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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157-158 “The board is also the premier fund-raising organ of
a non-profit organization – one important role it does not have in the
for-profit business. If a board doesn’t actively lead in fund
development, it’s very hard to get the funds the organization
needs. Personally, I like a board that not only gets other people to give
money but whose members put the organization first and foremost on their own list
of donations.<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:black">Page 158 “I
very rarely have seen a truly strong board in co-ops, for instance, where
boards are elected by the membership…Then you get boards which may
represent this or that segment of the membership, but they don’t
represent the organization, at least in my experience. Problems are
likely to arise on these boards, such as troublemakers who abuse the board to
create a political platform for themselves or just to hear themselves talk.”<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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<p class="MsoNormal"><font size="3" color="black" face="Book Antiqua"><span style="font-size:12.0pt;font-family:"Book Antiqua";color:black">Page 191 “Creating
a record of performance is the only thing that will encourage people to trust
you and support you.”<u></u><u></u></span></font></p>
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