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Article #606TFN LEADERSHIP VOID (Re: TFN's fatal malaise)
From: Bob Allisat
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 00:00
Date: Sun, 26 Jan 1997 00:00
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Mike Anderson TFN's ex-Executive Director (au966@torfree.net) asked:
:Why wasn't I able to get money out of the members or corporations?
:
: Maybe because the previous board managed to concentrate *all* power
: unto themselves, and refusing to delegate any to the paid staff.
Perhaps. And perhaps the current But human beings are funny
Board is acting similarly. In fear critters. They often act only
of repeating past disasters whose at the last moment, just before
ashes still warm this discussion. disaster is to befall them. Or
The crying need is for a full-time they wait till it's utterly too
director/leader/pilot of TFN to late and then scramble in the
drag it into survival and the next failing light to bring a new
twenty years. And for the present day. Very amusing species. The
Body to TRUST, FOLLOW and SUPPORT TFN has been a stellar example
this person. A Director & a salary. of our foibles and follies.
Bob Lets hope a turn for the sane
Allisat and sensible. A director and
salary and a Board that stops
N O W ! fucking around in day to day
N ! ! ! business. The void filled and
O ! ! ! a start to the long road to
W ! ! ! success.
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X-Google-Language: ENGLISH,ASCII-7-bit X-Google-Thread: 103731,c18c9349f4b02473 X-Google-Attributes: gid103731,public X-Google-Thread: 10643c,c18c9349f4b02473 X-Google-Attributes: gid10643c,public X-Google-Thread: 10aaae,c18c9349f4b02473 X-Google-Attributes: gid10aaae,public From: ab330@torfree.net (Bob Allisat) Subject: TFN LEADERSHIP VOID (Re: TFN's fatal malaise) Date: 1997/01/26 Message-ID: <E4MpFp.31E.0.queen@torfree.net> X-Deja-AN: 212557348 references: <E4JxF7.8Iu.0.bloor@torfree.net> <E4Kqtq.Cpx.0.queen@torfree.net> <E4LtL4.F1J.0.bloor@torfree.net> organization: Toronto Free-Net newsgroups: torfree.general,tor.general,can.infohighway