--- In [email protected], Rick Archer <[EMAIL PROTECTED]> wrote: > > > on 6/11/05 4:19 PM, uns_tressor at [EMAIL PROTECTED] wrote: > > > Sure, I am that unforgiving. At some point, we must all demand > > a basic level of competence. This could've started with the TMO > > in the UK which has not known a day of good management since > > Vincent Snell, a spiritual leader rather than a CEO, moved on. > > Its too late now. > > What is the general attitude toward Geoffrey Clements? Has he been > national leader pre Warburton? What's Steven Benson up to?
Steven left the scene a couple of decades ago. GC then took over and PW came on board a year or two ago. TM is marketed as a franchise without the understanding that a franchisor must provide a strong, competent well funded hub that justifies charging franchisees by giving them back far more than they receive in support, central advertising and other services. In the case of the UK TMO, the hub has less skill than most franchisees. Has Geoffrey Clements ever run a business? Anyone would admit that PW is a superb orator and probably a first rate PR man. But what qualifications does he have to be chief executive of an organisation with several dozen branches distributed across the country? The legendary John Harvey Jones came on to the scene a few years ago. GC should have seen his role as sitting at the feet of JHJ, ensuring that the purity of the teaching never got prejudiced. We were never told why JHJ left. If a Divisional Manager of Walmart were to be offered the job of CEO of TM(UK), he or she would see it as an outstandingly tricky job. The people MMY throws into the job have always been completely out of their depth. MMY blames us for the results of our deplorable lack of coherence. If he is unhappy with our performance in the Marathon, then he should ask himself why he broke our legs. Uns. To subscribe, send a message to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] Or go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ and click 'Join This Group!' Yahoo! Groups Links <*> To visit your group on the web, go to: http://groups.yahoo.com/group/FairfieldLife/ <*> To unsubscribe from this group, send an email to: [EMAIL PROTECTED] <*> Your use of Yahoo! Groups is subject to: http://docs.yahoo.com/info/terms/
