As an employee of the WMF and a long-time Wikimedian, I strongly agree with Brion.
Lila, I find your message completely deaf to the real concerns that staff have been raising for many months. It seems to imply that the turmoil and heartache we're suffering are not products of poor leadership, but instead minor side effects of a carefully designed plan. Let me be clear: I am no part of any silent majority which supports such a plan. *Neil P. Quinn* +1 (202) 656 3457 On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 12:16 PM, Ilario Valdelli <valde...@gmail.com> wrote: > Hi Kat > This is good. > > But why not to look for a CTO? > > Designing a CTO's profile and putting it in a CEO's profile is a big > challenge. This can happen but means also to have a big change of the > vision of WMF. > > Kind regards > Il 22/Feb/2016 19:12, "Kat Walsh" <k...@mindspillage.org> ha scritto: > > > On Mon, Feb 22, 2016 at 2:03 AM, George Herbert > > <george.herb...@gmail.com> wrote: > > > > > One phrase I see used quite often is "sometimes we need to break a few > > eggs." For those who are not native american english speakers, this is > > referring to the need to move beyond shifting things around into breaking > > things apart, letting people go who may not fit in the new plan, stopping > > things outright, etc. The eggs - people, projects, structures, policies, > > assumptions - need to partly go away - be broken - in order to reform. > > > > > > Lila's vision here clearly calls the change campaign out as having > > explicitly intended to break eggs. > > > > > > It further suggests strongly that this was the Board of Trustees' > > intention in hiring her, and that they agreed with breaking those eggs. > > > > I left the board during the search process, but remained on the search > > committee. So while I cannot know what the board was thinking after > > her tenure began, I can say that the search committee was not looking > > for a "turnaround CEO"--at least to my understanding we were looking > > for someone who would be able to execute better on some of the areas > > (particularly engineering) where we wanted to make more improvements > > but hadn't. > > > > (Which would naturally involve some change--but sweeping reforms were > > not envisioned; part of why Sue stepped down when she did was that she > > felt the organization was basically stable and could be smoothly > > handed off. It is certainly possible for someone to come in and decide > > that was a wrong assessment, but it wasn't what the committee had been > > looking for.) > > > > -Kat > > > > _______________________________________________ > > 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> > _______________________________________________ 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>
