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Howard Dean’s campaign leadership challenge
September 2, 2003 |
Howard Dean has become the leader in the Democratic primaries, and now has a shot at unseating George Bush. Success brings challenges. He is soon going to hit a predictable “phase change” in his own campaign that may test his own leadership and that of his senior staff.
He and his staff will begin to recruit senior colleagues to develop the base for Dean’s eventual presidential succession (especially recruiting, screening and selecting cabinet members) and who can help the campaign in three broad campaign priority areas:
first, in specific substantive areas, including foriegn policy (e.g. building a new international consensus, reforming the military, reaching out to developing nations, etc.) and domestic policy (e.g. health and education, infrastructure, relationship of the federal government and the states, etc.);
second in reaching out to demographic groups that are currently under-represented in his campaign, particularly African American and Hispanic voters;
third, in strengthening organizational operations, especially field staff and core campaign functions.
In all this, we hope he and his staff continue to bring in the mix of new and old blood that has been their hallmark, and continue to recruit people who embrace the organizational values of truth telling, web-communication, decentralization, self-organization, and openness that have been so inviting to the “swarm” that is currently propelling him to the lead.
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