Commissioner Rowland, after observing your leadership in a couple meetings now, I have to give you some constructive advice.\u00a0 I\u2019m writing this for the good of the forum, and I expect you to change your speaking style as a result of it.\u00a0 I have to assume no one has told you this before, and that you\u2019re not going to hear it from anyone at the county over whom you have dominion.\u00a0 So here goes.<\/p>\n
The campaign is over.\u00a0 You don\u2019t need to consume every available syllable in the room like a ravenous pack animal at a feeding frenzy.\u00a0 You won already.<\/p>\n
I wouldn\u2019t expect you to change the way you think.\u00a0 But the way you speak impacts everyone in the room.\u00a0 The cumulative time you cost an audience is significant.<\/p>\n
If you expect to hold an audience over the next four years, you must not continue to air out every incomplete thought, and every alternate construction of language that just says the same thing in as many different ways as you can imagine.\u00a0 The repetition is not effective.\u00a0 It\u2019s redundant.<\/p>\n
The office you hold is not a casual forum.\u00a0 People go there to hear legal decisions that might affect them in the future, and if necessary, to add some data to improve the quality of a future decision.\u00a0 They don\u2019t go to hear streams of consciousness that are not dispositive to making a decision.<\/p>\n
Effective leadership is orderly, succinct, and respectful of scarce time.\u00a0 Please respect the time of \u201cwe the people\u201d whom you have often spoken of as your principle motivation.<\/p>\n
Lay out the facts in clear non-repetitive statements when a decision calls for them<\/em>.\u00a0 Everyone thinks about the issues all the time.\u00a0 If you have new information, then please, advance the topic.\u00a0 Otherwise, let someone else speak who does have new information to impart.<\/p>\n B_Imperial<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":" Commissioner Rowland, after observing your leadership in a couple meetings now, I have to give you some constructive advice.\u00a0 I\u2019m writing this for the good of the forum, and I expect you to change your speaking style as a result of it.\u00a0 I have to assume no one has told you this before, and that […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"closed","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"nf_dc_page":"","_genesis_hide_title":false,"_genesis_hide_breadcrumbs":false,"_genesis_hide_singular_image":false,"_genesis_hide_footer_widgets":false,"_genesis_custom_body_class":"","_genesis_custom_post_class":"","_genesis_layout":"","footnotes":""},"categories":[22],"tags":[],"class_list":{"0":"post-3328","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","6":"category-bocc","7":"entry"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3328","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=3328"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/3328\/revisions"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=3328"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=3328"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/elbertcounty.net\/blog\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=3328"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}