Letters on Libertarian Strategy #6 Tasks for State Committees George Phillies As I have previously said, I am advancing a strategy for the Libertarian Party. Part of the proposed strategy refers to what your community and state parties are doing. Persuading your local group and your state party to support the Local Organization Strategy is up to you and your friends. I can point the way, but... 

Letters on Libertarian Strategy #5 Strategic Planning is not a new idea. Successful businessmen have been doing strategic planning for millennia. 25 years ago, it was understandable that the newly-founded Libertarian Party would lack a strategy. It is now 2000, not 1972. This letter discusses a particular strategy — the Local Organization strategy. In the previous letter, I discussed activities... 

For the past year, Massachusetts libertarians have worked with a new method of organizing their organization’s finances.  Our objective was simple: Make sure that money is spent where it should be spent, on doing real politics. Our approach to managing spending put the controls where they belong: at the front end. Massachusetts Libertarians have two major sources of money: dues and donations. ... 

By Dr. George Phillies Strategic Planning is not a new idea. Successful businessmen have been doing strategic planning for millennia. 25 years ago, it was understandable that the newly-founded Libertarian Party would have done little in the way of strategic planning. It is now 2000, not 1972. This letter presents an example of strategic planning and analysis. The analysis shows some of the things... 

What is a Strategic Plan? Strategic Planning is not a new idea. Successful businessmen have been doing strategic planning for millennia. 25 years ago, it was understandable that the newly-founded Libertarian Party would have done little in the way of strategic planning. In 2000, a quarter-century later, the elected National Committee should routinely treat strategic planning as a primary task.... 

Strategic Planning is not a new idea. Businessmen have been doing it for millennia. The Hellenic philosopher Archimedes, challenged ‘if you’re so smart, why aren’t you rich’, is said to have used strategic planning: He anticipated an excellent olive harvest and used out-of-season options trading to corner the market on olive presses, thereby becoming wealthy. We are not a... 

Originally Posted in the December 2003 edition of Libertarian Strategy Gazette A Program for a National Chair: What do we need in a Chair? A Libertarian National Committee (LNC) Chair needs to know how to run meetings and adhere to Rules of Order. As a professor active in faculty governance, I’ve done that under difficult circumstances. An LNC Chair and Party CEO must understand that the... 

By Dr. George Phillies Above All, Remember The Objective of a Political Party is To Elect Its Candidates to Political Office and thereby put its agenda into effect. To attain this objective, we need to build a strong party perform needed housekeeping tasks create pre-conditions for victory Building a strong party is based on core activities such as Outreach, Incitement, Local... 

In the end, we will be politically successful when we win elections, elect our candidates to office, and put a libertarian direction on the country’s political agenda. Political success demands a series of elements.  All the elements are needed at once.  The libertarian political movement that will bring us to victory is the movement that takes responsibility for assembling all those elements....