Thank you as well, Kat. George William Herbert Sent from my iPhone
> On Feb 22, 2016, at 10:11 AM, Kat Walsh <k...@mindspillage.org> wrote: > > 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>
