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The principle is of total consensus with the plan - that all the activities managed or effected by the steering group (SG) are those of the 'members' in the first place ie. all the current regular players.
The key question is: will we all contribute to the planning stage? As I said before, if we don't bring all our ideas and requirements for Manchester polo 2012 to the table in the first instance, the steering group has no real mandate and will easily fall/fail as and when they try and fill the gaps. The only issues with a mandated steering group should be if they fail to deliver the agreed activities or plan - not HOW they did it.
The advantages with such a small polo group are that we should/can use each individuals strengths eg. there are a few graphics guys/there's a web guy/there's a marketing guy etc. The steering group would be doomed fail if it tried to do all the components of a plan themselves. The art is to identify and specify what is needed to deliver the plan and then to execute via clear specification and delegation amongst our undoubted pool of talent. It would be useful therefore for each of us to define what we're prepared to contribute during the coming year that the SG can call on - be that a talent/a business strength or simply experience/time etc.