There was a challenge to not LIMIT my thinking on how large the AIESEC Madison LC can be by looking at its past. This translates to ONE meaning: Don't set a limit on how many members can be apart of AIESEC Madison.
There was also a challenge/realization that even with the "large" growth of the local committee in the last year, the committee found a way to SUSTAIN all of these new people. And so if the committee continued on a strong growth rate, the existing members would be able to come up with a structure to SUSTAIN the membership.
And so the only logical conclusion to how many new students must be accepted into the organization next semester, should be a fairly large number, as the LC can most definitely SUSTAIN them.
Then there were some concerns raised about growing the local committee, but only as far as could be SUSTAINABLE, as if the LC would explode into nothingness when that one extra member was accepted into the organization. Based on the above logic, all growth is sustainable (so long as someone miraculously came up with a structure to support all those people).
Well, right now, I guarantee I would be able to find a structure that would SUSTAIN over 400 members of AIESEC Madison. And I would even help implementing it, if I needed to.
And so, unlike the title of this post, I do not believe growing AIESEC Madison to 400 members will doom the LC to complete failure.
And yet, I still believe in a recruitment drive of -10 (yes negative) new members. I challenge you to find my logic.
There was also a challenge/realization that even with the "large" growth of the local committee in the last year, the committee found a way to SUSTAIN all of these new people. And so if the committee continued on a strong growth rate, the existing members would be able to come up with a structure to SUSTAIN the membership.
And so the only logical conclusion to how many new students must be accepted into the organization next semester, should be a fairly large number, as the LC can most definitely SUSTAIN them.
Then there were some concerns raised about growing the local committee, but only as far as could be SUSTAINABLE, as if the LC would explode into nothingness when that one extra member was accepted into the organization. Based on the above logic, all growth is sustainable (so long as someone miraculously came up with a structure to support all those people).
Well, right now, I guarantee I would be able to find a structure that would SUSTAIN over 400 members of AIESEC Madison. And I would even help implementing it, if I needed to.
And so, unlike the title of this post, I do not believe growing AIESEC Madison to 400 members will doom the LC to complete failure.
And yet, I still believe in a recruitment drive of -10 (yes negative) new members. I challenge you to find my logic.
posted by Bruhaha at 12:15 AM
10 Comments:
your logic:
we don't just want to sustain our members, we want to empower them to do great things?
empowerment often springs from the things that are learned while being deeply rooted in a close-knit community?
p.s. that was a wild guess
so shoot me down
or raise me up
whichever is more appropriate
Your pic is creepy. Are you mad that your post didn't get the action of the others?
I think that your logic is that until there is a well thought-out structure in place to support the growth, you don't want to see that growth take place. I would argue that I believe the current structure can support more than -10 growth, but that the LC is at a place where restructuring is inevitable before the next big step.
molly, i love you, but i'm shooting you back down- bruni, feel free to bring that lady back up if she's right.
We can still have 400 memebers and have them feel empowered and be in a community where they have vested interest in aiesec's mission and work. It just won't look like it does now. We need a shared vision and structure to support it, and it needs to happen now.
@molly: Saying we want an empowering community and actually having an empowering community are two different things. As there were multiple members that stated they did not feel empowered, I'm going to have to side with the minority and say that the community is still not quite empowering. I'm still not sure if that's from having a close-knit community or from not having/doing a piece of work.
@junior: Now that you mention it, I am pretty creepy in that pic.
@sara: Yes, though it's only the start. I realize I have given very, very few clues as to where I was coming from so that's a good, concise summary of my rants thus far.
@katy: shared vision and structure: to me, that's the old way. No one knows for sure what will and what won't work; that's why we have a leadership team and an executive board. Membership is only asking for these teams to pick a direction, evaluate it, and change if it doesn't work. Right now those teams are dragging their collective feet to find one unified direction from all members, but they are not finding it. And somehow there is the idea that all decisions made by the LC have been made with a unified vision from all members. This is not at all been the case. Although there have been concerns raised with this process in the past, the current membership spoke fairly strongly in favor of such a move. Progress was more important than complete unity and appeasement.
personally I'm going to have to agree with bruni on this one. I don't think we should push people out but I feel as if there aren't enough members of AIESEC doing real work. i'd love to see 90 people join a semester. I want to see all of my friends join and go on a traineeship, although I would trust all my friends to go abroad and make a positive impact, I wouldn't trust 40% of them to help run the LC. Also, if it weren't for competition I would never have joined. To keep both of these, #'s of traineeships and strong leadership, we have to look at our structure keep the good 95% of it and find areas to improve and add to it's stable foundation
i agree with jason- see my blog for one idea, i'd like to see more on how we can change our structure to see our overall mission accomplished.
I'm not posting these to exclude people on the conversation, but rather am using my blog (and others) to voice my opinion- and to have peole start seeing other possibilites.
I plan on bringing everything up in real life, where it counts.
I'm going out this weekend. a lot.
If you can keep up with a structure that can keep passing it on and keeping the dream alive then guarantee you have a hit.
but also sometimes its not about quantity but quality. you have to find a way to keep that quantity at a quality level.
can i use your picture to scare rats off my cube at work?
Grace, I think you should make a t-shirt with Bruni's pic on it...that would be hilarious.
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