Also, +1 to Ori. On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 11:16 PM, Gayle Karen Young <gayleka...@gmail.com> wrote:
> People will leave despite how much they love a place, its mission, and its > volunteers at the point it becomes too painful for them to stay. And no one > can make that decision for them. While the support of one's colleagues goes > a very long way, it is necessary but not sufficient. I have been watching, > even in pain and at a distance, the enormous toll it takes for people to go > in day after day and keep doing their work when they have felt unsupported > and unheard by the leadership, the board, and the movement, and uncertain > of the strategy of the organization - and even worse, characterized as > being the wrong people on the bus, so to speak - that this turnover is > "normal" and part of leadership transition. This is not normal. > > Dysfunction at the top does matter. It sets the tone for what is > permissible in the organization. It is part of the leadership obligation to > create an organizational and systemic environment in which people thrive, > and feel aligned to the mission and the values of the organization. When > that is absent, the resulting toxicity is downright unfair to ask people to > continually endure. > > > > On Thu, Feb 18, 2016 at 10:55 AM, Dan Andreescu <dandree...@wikimedia.org> > wrote: > >> > >> > This is happening in spite of -- not thanks to -- dysfunction at the >> top. >> > If you don't believe me, all you have to do is wait: an exodus of people >> > from Engineering won't be long now. >> >> >> I hope you're wrong, Ori. I hope people have the presence of mind, like >> you say - despite the dysfunction at the top, to stay and talk things out >> among each other. And to realize that the dysfunction at the top does not >> *really* matter. People screw up, but this is a movement. And this >> movement, as you point out, has not screwed up. >> >> I hope we talk, fix the problems, and grow stronger in our connection and >> commitment to the amazing community we serve. >> >> If anyone is feeling despair, please talk to me first, we have all the >> reason in the world to channel our effort in a positive direction. Just >> to >> be clear, I admire Ori for his intelligence and for writing this email, I >> just hope he's wrong that people will leave this place that I love so >> much. >> _______________________________________________ >> Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: >> https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines >> New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org >> Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, >> <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe> >> > > _______________________________________________ Wikimedia-l mailing list, guidelines at: https://meta.wikimedia.org/wiki/Mailing_lists/Guidelines New messages to: Wikimedia-l@lists.wikimedia.org Unsubscribe: https://lists.wikimedia.org/mailman/listinfo/wikimedia-l, <mailto:wikimedia-l-requ...@lists.wikimedia.org?subject=unsubscribe>
