New Citizens Inc

In particular, I'd like to look around to all of you who have observed this going on and who have been silent. People needed your support. I needed your support . Where were you? Where are you? Quite's voice: That pretty much how much of the board has felt for the last 90 days. We found our own ans...

Quite's personal voice: If I remember, the first time you fired it off to me on 2009-08-11 to double check it before sending it to the board. This was before Carl left. Carl quit at on August 28, 2009. The board worked on burn out mode to get everything up and running, that took about 4 weeks before...

"We must become the change we want to see." - Mahatma Gandhi "Most of what we call management consists of making it difficult for people to get their jobs done." - Peter Drucker "Never tell people how to do things. Tell them what to do and they will surprise you with their ingenuity." - George Patt...

Lethe,

You're doing a great job. You aren't expected to be flawless at what you do--just to keep doing exactly what have been doing: performing with excellence.

Thanks Lethe

NCI is like a duck, it looks nice and photogenic, but below the water, is the legs paddling like billyo just to keep the major part looking so good. The legs are the BoD, and its sometimes not pretty down here. We do occasionally feel beleaguered, esp with folk seeming to question our right to be w...

Afon, thank you for a clear though not final answer. To feed it back, I heard "we haven't decided anything about elections now, and we may take it under consideration in the future." Quite, a new question for you: Could you please describe briefly what your role is as the board's PR person? From yo...

Quite is your last post the offcial Board position? Is it official that the board position is to reject my elections proposal? I would like an official Board reply on the official LH group channel. P.S. I appreciated a lot the work of Carl and Tateru because I shared their vision of NCI, otherwise ...

Quite, I read your long post just above as meaning "No, we are not going to become more democratic" and "No, we are not going to have this or future boards be elected." Is that the correct interpretation? Thanks, First, I was asking the question to get an understanding of what OTHER people than mys...

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Democracy What is democracy? In a democracy the people govern: that’s the simple etymology of that Greek word. Let's be clear that in a democracy what people govern is that which they have a right or legal share of something, a financial involvement with something, or hold legal title to. To real...