Coalition building

West Wisconsin Avenue, Suite 308 Milwaukee, WI 53203 phone 414-272-2562 fax 274-3494 contact Tonya M. Mantilla area served Wisconsin/Midwest services offered Grass-roots organizing, coalition building, public education, creation of Community Lead Safe Zones and SAFE HOUSES... 

Have I thought through my political strategy for building a coalition of support for a different discipline for new businesses ... 

One young captain s attention wanders shortly as he thinks of some of his Special Forces personnel. Bitter memories of friends cut down by hooded snipers, cowards who fire from the windows of ordinary homes, continue to haunt them. Even when they see them run inside a building, the need to minimize collateral casualties forces the coalition units to hold their fire. Their M-16 rifles and highly accurate shoulder-mounted missiles have to wait until the unfriendly target is clearly isolated, lest they bring down a mother and child along with a black-scarfed terrorist. 

Because we were organized and every member of the team was informed about what everyone else was doing, we were able to be efficient and avoid arguments. 1 learned a lot about building coalitions and handling disputes. 1 know that many of the projects in this department are also handled by teams, and I m confident that I will work very well in that environment. 

During Operation Desert Shield, the build-up phase of the Persian Gulf War (fall and winter, 1990) after Iraq invaded and occupied Kuwait, the United States and the coalition of allies faced the threat of biological and chemical warfare. Fortunately, Saddam Hussein did not use unconventional weapons, but the allies believe that he retained this capability after his defeat. 

Brecher, Jeremy and Tim Costello. 1990. Building Bridges The Emerging Grassroots Coalitions of Labor and Community. New Yoric Monthly Review Press. 

As outlined in Figure 6.1, for today s supply chain leaders, the definition of supply chain excellence is all over the map. As a result, an important first step for the leadership team is to make a strong statement and define it for the organization. It needs to be a deliberate statement to detail "what it is and what it is not." The task then is to build a guiding coalition to achieve it. Defining supply chain excellence is job number one for the executive team. 

How do you build aguidirg coalition around a three-year strategy to drive market-driven differenlialion ... 

As the issues bubble up in the boardroom, now is the time to realize that bricks matter. Companies can only be successful in the long term if they design for value, clearly communicate the goal, and understand the potential of their own supply chain (effective frontier). There has never been a better time to build a guiding coalition to redefine the supply chain as a value network or to map the supply... 

Build a guiding coalition to enable success. Make sure that it has the right mix of leaders and managers. 

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