On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 5:32 PM, Pine W wiki.pine@gmail.com wrote:
I'll add a question of my own here. I find this statement interesting: "Please rate these other qualifications: (Please rate 0 to 5 with 0 being 0 not important; 5 for extremely important)... Experience of working in an a-hierarchical, participative management environment". I find this puzzling because WMF is generally hierarchical organization, with the board an executive director at the top, followed by middle management, followed by line employees, contractors, and interns. I'm wondering if what is intended here is a sentiment that the ED Search Committee would like to *transform *WMF into a less heirarchical organization. Could someone from the ED Search Committee or the Board expand on what your intentions are with this question? I cannot imagine how WMF could function as an "a-hierarchical... management environment", although I could understand if there is an aspiration to collapse a layer or two in the org chart and/or to delegate more responsibility from the Board or ED to employees who have more expertise in various domains.
I don't think it is the role of the ED search committee to transform the organization. However (speaking for myself) I believe that an experience in a-hierarchical, participative management environment helps understand wiki-culture a lot.
I'd dare say that some of the WMF employees I knew had great skills, but had trouble with adjusting to the a-hierarchical/participative nature of our movement that the WMF is part of. The WMF is less hierarchical than many NGOs, and also as a part of a larger movement is subject to participative and discursive culture (just take this very discussion as an example: a very hierarchical and non-participative ED would find it difficult to understand why we are even having it).
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