not running

and if someone introduces that into my campaign i am out Period.

End of sentence.

And I think they heard me kind of, but it got difficult towards the end.

One of my local papers editor, the Ferdinand News editor, knew how committed I was to political civility and said, have you thought about signing a political civility agreement? And I said, no, what is that? And yeah, it's a great idea.

And so she said she would reach out to Russ Stilwell to see if he was interested.

I wrote it.

But then the phone rang again.

How do you communicate a consistent message that's going to resonate with people who all have such different personal interests in terms of their careers? Well, one of the beauties of community

college is people who opt in to be here usually very quickly fall in love with the mission of the college, which is so wonderful to help young people and working adults find that next great place and outcome in their lives.

So the mission does capture a lot of that.

I personally believe that in order for an organization to move forward, you have to craft shared vision.

So with Ivy Tech, when I arrived nine years ago, the first task at hand was to develop a shared strategic plan.

I have led over 100 strategic plans in my life as a consultant, and I know many of them end up as a book or today in a file, a computer file, but often not owned and not used.

And that would be a complete failure.

Like, how do you how do you do that?