Leland,

I have also learned, somewhat the hard way, that the key element of a 
busness, or any organization volunteer or otherwise, is the will to 
persist. This will is reinforced by the vision which is enabled through 
the story that leadership provides  -- often enough to voice the story 
that is already held but not well spoken by the group. Persistence can 
be accompanied by ignorance, but courage is certainly required to 
persist against overwhelming odds when one is less than ignorant. And by 
story I do not mean on the level of political BS, but on the level of 
our collective dreams realized through our revealed mythology. What 
binds us as humans is our sharing of a story... and in this sense the 
infosphere is a concrete enough place of our realization. What is there 
here but story? It is easy though to have a vision, much harder to 
maintain against the erosion of a common will to persist. I find so 
often that when a story is not provided that the inclination is for one 
to be made up in the negative to fill the emptiness. I also find it 
personally intriguing how one can be quite proficient at doing something 
but very lousy at communicating what it is that they are doing. Thus I 
have an inclination to identify Mastery of a Craft with an ability on 
some level, be it as private as mentor to apprentice, to fashion a story 
to express the craft... to communicate from one to another.

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