If it is the case that normal C-level churn was significantly accelerated
by the choice of ED (which makes sense to me; I had previously heard this
explicitly only with regard to one former C) then this is another reason
that I hope that there will be some reflection by the Board about what went
wrong, particularly concerning how the Board was so slow to acknowledge the
problem and take action on it.
Could the Board say whether the scope of its planned governance review
includes a review of what happened on the Board with regard to its
supervision of the previous ED? I am aware that C-level exit interviews are
now being done. A review of the facts of the Board's actions regarding the
previous ED would be instructive, including an external review of the facts
surrounding James' departure from the Board which seemed to have been
related to staff concerns about the previous ED and how the Board was
handling those concerns.
Pine
On Aug 14, 2016 04:52, "Asaf Bartov" <abartov(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
On Sun, Aug 14, 2016 at 4:22 AM, Pine W
<wiki.pine(a)gmail.com> wrote:
I am also wondering about what can be done to keep C levels after we get
them.
The implicit assertion that this is a problem we generally suffer from is,
I think, incorrect. We have generally not had difficulty retaining our
c-levels for decent (multi-year) tenures. It is decidedly the case that
the prime reason for the c-level departures in the past three years was the
exceptionally ill-suited and problematic previous executive director that
WMF was laboring under. Some departing c-levels are explicitly on the
record saying so.
I therefore suggest you are perhaps trying to solve a perceived problem
that isn't actually there, and I think it would waste all our time to
discuss it.
A.
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