Clay is on fire. Cultures get what they celebrate! What does your campaign and movement celebrate? Are you setting up a movement culture that celebrates sharing, collaboration, collective action and trust? Or are you celebrating donations, staff size, media attention and individual credit? What are the metrics you celebrate in movement building? Are those different than when you focus on legislative outcomes?
There are tons of good riffs in his talk and book. Ways we network the movement will directly position (or not position) civic change leaders to leverage these dynamics. It never happens by accident. In each case it took leaders to build the network, support the network and drive the network to produce. Usually, they were different leaders and each had different skills and focus.
