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The difference used to be, in business mistakes get punished, even that doesn't seem to happen these days at corporate and boardroom level, with massive bonuses being issued for failure. This then mirrored in the Public Sector with top earners rewarded come what may, often with golden hand shake payments to say goodbye, then re hired as 'consultants' later. The point of this diatribe? Professionalism at high level does not necessarily equal success, particularly where stakeholders, shareholders, or taxpayers, are footing the bill, it's simply put, high earnings for the boys. Do we want our Governing body to continue down this route? Probably not.

The problem they have, is their income stream is from members and Government sports funding, linked to the Olympics and as I once said to the owner of a particular boat building business exposed to Olympic classes they should have a strategy that at the very least acid tests that disappearing and be developing a plan B, which is us.

Us being multi role water users, once upon a time I couldn't really get by without being an RYA member, now I cheerfully and quite deliberately am not. They have incensed, outraged and disappointed me in equal measure over the years and I dare say I'm not alone, so, first call i would have thought would be to find out why that is.

Edited by iGRF - 16 Jan 19 at 10:22am

Originally posted by ttc546 Originally posted by JimC The way I would hope it would work would be that each department of the RYA would bring their specialist knowledge and experience to the table, and the strategist would be able to balance needs, requirements, budgets etc to put together the whole. At least that's how it would work with a properly functional management team. Of course there are such things as dysfunctional management teams... Zackly! At last. someone who gets that each person brings their own expertise to the table.

And the person sitting at the table should be interested in the stuff they are talking about! Even have a modicum of understanding of the subject matter, to better form strategy.

The way I would hope it would work would be that each department of the RYA would bring their specialist knowledge and experience to the table, and the strategist would be able to balance needs, requirements, budgets etc to put together the whole. At least that's how it would work with a properly functional management team. Of course there are such things as dysfunctional management teams...

The biggest problem IME is if you get a management team that thinks the specialists are too junior to listen to...

Edited by JimC - 15 Jan 19 at 7:10pm

In another place yesterday I spotted a post from a young woman student bemoaning the lack of political education at her school. Loads of people were jumping on the bandwagon saying yes lets have 'politics' classes at secondary school. I despair  the school curriculum (and day to day life) is riddled with politics, it's called History, Geography, Economics, PSE and many other subjects.

Originally posted by Chris 249 When the people who specialise in sports management have that sort of attitude, why would a generalist manager/strategist be any better?

Edited by ttc546 - 15 Jan 19 at 8:19am