The Kearney report rings true for me.
Cheers,
Peter
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From: Wikimedia-l [mailto:wikimedia-l-bounces@lists.wikimedia.org] On Behalf Of rupert
THURNER
Sent: Saturday, June 18, 2016 11:47 PM
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Subject: Re: [Wikimedia-l] Community survey to support the WMF ED search starts right now
hi,
2011 A T Kearney published a study saying that hiring a homegrown CEO let a company
outperform other companies. also price waterhouse coopers Strategy& and RHR
international come to similar conclusions:
*
hiring an outsider CEO has the following effects:
* higher compensation
* greater risk profile
* wrong expectations about business area and its specifics
best
rupert
On Thu, Jun 16, 2016 at 1:56 PM, Fæ <faewik(a)gmail.com> wrote:
Thank you! Hopefully there will be a good range of
viewpoints!
I look forward to reading a summary of the feedback!
Fae
On 16 June 2016 at 11:25, Alice Wiegand <awiegand(a)wikimedia.org> wrote:
Update: The survey is still open!
In order to hear from more people, the search team decided to hold
the ED search survey [1] open until Friday, June 17. If you haven’t
already, please take a few minutes to fill it out before then.
Thank you for your participation!
[1] - ED Search Survey:
https://wikimedia.qualtrics.com/SE/?SID=SV_5hVS2mJTcJNCxBX
Alice.
On Mon, Jun 6, 2016 at 12:58 AM, Nikola Kalchev <
nikola.kalchev(a)gmail.com>
wrote:
> As a patroller on my homewiki I can say that 15 of the 50 most
> active editors according to
stats.wikimedia.org would be capable of
> answering
the
> questions in one of the ten languages. Those
are the people who
translate
> articles from the ten languages of the survey
(13 from English, 2
> from Russian). Ask a few more patrollers from other communities,
> multiply by
the
> number of very active editors on those wikis
and divide by the
> number of asked patrollers :). It is not impossible to get a rough estimate.
>
> Best regards,
> User:Lord Bumbury / Nikola Kalchev
> Wikimedians of Bulgaria, a Wikimedia CEE Spring international
> organiser
>
> On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 11:45 PM, Dariusz Jemielniak
> <darekj(a)alk.edu.pl>
> wrote:
>
> >
> >
> > On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 5:07 PM, Nikola Kalchev <
nikola.kalchev(a)gmail.com
> >
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Dariusz, thank you for your clarification. I understand that
> translations
> >> take time.
> >>
> >> Would you please elaborate on the assumption that the most
> >> important principle of the ED search committee was speed and not, e.g.
> participation
> >> of a larger part of the community? What would the bad effects of
> >> a 2
> months
> >> longer search on the WMF be?
> >>
> >
> > The assumption is that any organization under an interim leader
> > is basically frozen. An interim leader is unlikely to make any change.
Also,
> > one of the gripes of the past was a long
(way over a year)
> > process of
ED
> > searching. The ED search team wants to
avoid repeating this.
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >>
> >> I fear that user groups will be underrepresented again (another
notable
> >> example is the number of
representatives at the WMCON with
> >> chapters
> having
> >> up to four participants and user groups exactly one). There are
> >> 59
user
> >> groups and (as well as I could
count) only 10 of them will be
> >> able to participate at the survey in their own language. Why was
> >> the opinion
of
> 49
> >> user groups considered less worth that a delay of two months?
> >>
> >
> > I think the main assumption may have been that there will be
decreasing
> > differences - that is, the differences
between the views
> > expressed in
the
> 10
major languages will not be big in general. Of course, we will
> see whether there are significant differences within these 10.
>
>
>
> On Sun, Jun 5, 2016 at 5:16 PM, Yaroslav M. Blanter
> <putevod(a)mccme.ru
> > wrote:
> >
> >> Whereas I fully understand and partially share the sentiment,
> >> may I please repeat the question I asked on this list in
> >> relation to a
similar
> >> topic some time ago. Could we
estimate a number of active
> >> community
> members
> >> (whom we would reasonably expect to participate in the survey)
> >> who do
> not
> >> speak any of the languages to which the survey was translated,
> >> to the
> point
> >> that their ability to fill in the survey would depend on the others?
If
> >> this is a considerable number, or if
it is less significant but
> >> considerably compromises on the representation, which languages
> >> do
these
> >> community members speak?
> >>
> >>
> > Yaroslav's question is a good one - I don't know from the top of
> > my
head
> > how to estimate this easily. However,
let me repeat: we are
> > asking
> general
> > questions, and the results are not binding. It is not an issue of
> > representation. I doubt if there will be huge cultural
> > differences to
the
extent that the questionnaire would bring different
results if 10
more languages were added, mainly because I think that wiki-world
is quite hermetic and has a culture of its own.
cheers,
dj
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