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Doug Griffiths retired from politics in January 2015 to actively pursue his passion of helping communities, organizations and businesses grow stronger. In his best-selling book, 13 Ways to Kill Your Community, Doug identifies challenges and opportunities that all our communities’ face. The lessons that come from those stories are applicable to all type of communities, whether they are towns, organizations, or businesses.
"An amazing book that speaks to why what we do can hinder the growth and health of our Clubs, District and Communities"
-Mike McManus
I'm reading "13 Ways to Kill Your Community 2nd Edition" by Doug Griffiths, Kelly Clemmer, Paul MacNeill and wanted to share this quote with you.
"Many of us struggle to relate and adapt to new technologies because it is hard to change, it takes work to understand the new technologies and it does not always make our lives simpler, as often as it promises. Sometimes we struggle because it seems it is more of a case of technology using us, than us utilizing technology. Adapting to each new iteration is hard and seems to get harder with age. I am not just talking about technological change. Everything is changing. Our politics, or economics, or social structure; our ethics, our values, our religions are all constantly changing. Adapting can be an exhausting process because we never get a chance to catch our breath. As such, there is often an unconscious desire to return to the good old days; the days when life was simpler, moral decisions were straightforward and obvious, we were all happier and our communities were strong. We all feel this way at one time or another. Sometimes, if the feeling becomes overwhelming, it seems the only way to correct the problems we see around us is to undo some or most of the modernization and change of the last few years. I have heard people say to make our communities strong and stable for the future we need to blow up some of those great roads we built that allowed everyone to leave town to go shopping elsewhere. To make our communities strong and stable for the future we need only bring back the ice cream parlors and get rid of the giant supermarkets that took people off our streets as families and put them into buildings as consumers. To make our communities strong and stable for the future we need only bring back door-to-door milk delivery, drive-in movies and Buick Skylarks, and all will be better. I personally believe transforming our communities should begin with reintroducing the front porch, but that may be my own personal sentimentalism setting in. The fact is, we cannot simply return to the past and even if we could, I doubt everything was as dreamy and wonderful as we remember it. The world is moving and changing. Spending countless hours discussing the glory of the past distracts us from the real and meaningful discussion about the future and how our community life fits into it. That only serves to help kill our communities, as lamenting the past accomplishes nothing and just interferes with making plans to meet the challenges of the future."
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