Managing bottom-up change is its own art.

We are infected by our own misunderstanding of how our own minds work.

It's generally much easier to kill an organization than to change it substantially.

But in a turbulent environment the change is so widespread that it just routes around any kind of central authority. So it is best to manage the bottom-up change rather than try to institute it from the top down.

I have no regrets at all. I wouldn't want to change anything that happened in the last seven years. The only thing that perhaps would have made a difference is having a sponsor for this project.

Dellums' entrance means a dramatic change in Oakland's atmosphere,