Fifteen and twenty years ago, every individual engaged in a battle of any kind, including Tony Soprano, was quoting Sun Tzu’s The Art of War. That long-deceased author never enjoyed any royalties from the popularity of his work. If Robby Mook’s strategy for organizing the Hillary for America campaign succeeds, Peter Senge of MIT might be thanking Hillary’s campaign manager for his book, The Fifth Discipline, published in 1990, experiencing a rebirth on Nooks and Kindles and in popular media dialogue.
Mook attributes his self-discipline, to Senge’s concept of “personal mastery,” and it figures large in Mook’s arsenal of organizing strategy.
Many readers here are getting involved in Hillary’s campaign at the grassroots level, and Ruby Cramer’s brilliant, detailed analysis of Robby Mook’s methodology in Buzzfeed is a gleaming nugget shining in the murky mine of how to get stuff done.
If you are the one in your locale who is responsible for getting names and assigning tasks, this is a must-read, but even if, like many of us, you count yourself among the ground troops and foot soldiers, these insights into the nuts and bolts of how the campaign is organized and who is doing it will assist your “personal mastery” of your own personal tasks. It is a gold mine!
Here are a few snippets, but I recommend that you pour yourself a glass of whatever you like and settle down for a bit. It is not a short read (not an unnecessarily long one either), and you will want to reflect upon and digest passages here.
Thank you, as always, Ruby Cramer! Peter Senge should thank you, too!
The Robby Mook Playbook
In 2008, a young operative took the campaign philosophy of “organizing” — and won Nevada for Hillary Clinton. Now, Robby Mook is her campaign manager, bringing his big win, big risk system and all it entails, including his band of loyal followers, to the biggest stage possible.
But you really have to READ IT ALL! There is so much more>>>>
I read this yesterday and was impressed by the amount of study Ruby Cramer put into it. A two cups of coffee morning read, and very compelling.
A woman in West Palm Beach, downloaded volunteer forms and printed them. Armed with only a clipboard and a few items she hung out talking to people at a fair in her area about Hillary for four days. She signed up 600 volunteers!!!
No budget – huge results.
Hillary for Florida Facebook page has some of the meetings we’ve held. Our H has Palm trees, naturally. We are an army. Nice to see motivated second wave back out fighting for one woman! No 15 hour days for me! But we can do a few hours at a fair while we keep saying we will launch her and we have her back.
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I was on my tablet and my name has a typo! Fish me out…
Cat on my lap!
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I wish I could tell you how many times Gracie has batted my hand while I was typing or using the mouse and completely screwed up what I was doing.
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Dr Blasio snubbed by another person who helped him in the past. Fundraiser for Hillary. Dr Blasio is clueless and irrelevant.
http://www.politico.com/story/2015/06/de-blasio-ally-to-hold-clinton-fundraiser-118694.html?hp=r4_3
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His obtuseness has really flabbergasted me. It’s the kind of thing that makes you wonder how a person was raised. Just ill-bred.
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Way off topic, but I am looking for an article (and I may have the details wrong) about after Hillary keeping a graduation promise after giving her DNC speech in 2008. I figured you would know.
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This one?
http://www.nydailynews.com/news/politics/hillary-clinton-speaks-high-school-graduates-bronx-article-1.294577
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That article reminded me of her $22 million debt in 08. We sent money after she suspended her campaign – most sent $20.08, a few sent $20.12, and some sent $20.16!
2016 won! It is ABOUT TIME.
btw, did everybody see the picture of Consigliere Podesta?
https://pbs.twimg.com/media/CGL0ZfWWIAAT5AA.jpg:large
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I thought it was the same day she gave a big speech…although I could be confused. It happens.
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Sophie for that whole month we were walking zombies who went through shell shock and trauma. It is a miracle we didn’t block the whole month out – for our own protection.
What makes me nuts – listening to the obama-now Hill supporters discuss 08 as if we weren’t there… and don’t remember how it REALLY went down.
We remember what happened, they remember a fantasy world.
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I remember. I remember that zombie feeling. I remember it all.
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Found it!!
From http://tanyadomi.blogspot.com/2015/04/why-im-supporting-hillary-clinton-for.html
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OH God. She is amazing. All these years later and I get all teary eyed.
So proud of her.
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Funniest article ever on Clinton scandals. A MUST READ. But don’t drink a sip while you do it or you will spit it out on your computer!
http://www.politico.com/magazine/story/2015/06/scandals-clintons-stronger-2016-foundation-president-118683.html?hp=t4_r#.VXTi5kYpp2A
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And it was written by a former Bush speechwriter, no less. The first paragraph alone is priceless!
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Hmmm, she may have worn green for the Benghazi hearing because it’s the color of the Libyan flag.
But that would be too obvious.
Instead they have to imagine something about meadows?
Even the anti conspiracists invent conspiracies.
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Beautiful picture of her!
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Love that picture of her.
Here are a couple of new pics of little charlotte on a stroll she has on a cute hat this time lol.
http://www.rexfeatures.com/livefeed/2015/06/06/chelsea_clinton_and_marc_mezvinsky,_out_and_about,_new_york
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Thanks for sharing these, Rachel. Love her tiny little sandals, too, lol. 🙂
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Jon Bon Jovi to put on show for Hillary fundraisers in Jersey. YAY!
http://www.nj.com/politics/index.ssf/2015/06/hillary_clinton_coming_to_nj_to_raise_money_with_b.html#incart_story_package
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