minny…

fotkividiki…

gruzchiki spb…

The second item that annoys me is that I find it odd that a San Francisco-based executive search firm that presumably was charged to conduct a national search managed to produce two of three finalists with deep ties to the City of San Francisco and the Bay Area. Rev. Haynes’ grandfather, F.D. Haynes, Sr., was the founder of Third Baptist Church in San Francisco and was the first black person in the modern era to run for political office in the city. Ben Jealous was the CEO of the Rosenburg Foundation which was founded in San Francisco in 1935 and is headquartered on Steuart Street in the city. I find it hard to believe that the search for a new NAACP leader was really national in scope.

The third item is that a vote of 34 to 21 to ratify Mr. Jealous’ appointment is really not a vote of confidence and signifies a degree of resistance to his becoming the CEO that is counter-productive and portends trouble for him and the NAACP. If nearly two-fifths of a board are opposed to hiring a candidate whose very success is highly dependent on an ability to create consensus, then that candidate’s tenure is not off to a good start. At the very least, the board should have voted, if only for symbolic reasons, to make its choice unanimous. This is poor process management on the part of the board’s officers and it will come back to haunt the organization.

The second item that annoys me is that I find it odd that a San Francisco-based executive search firm that presumably was charged to conduct a national search managed to produce two of three finalists with deep ties to the City of San Francisco and the Bay Area. Rev. Haynes’ grandfather, F.D. Haynes, Sr., was the founder of Third Baptist Church in San Francisco and was the first black person in the modern era to run for political office in the city. Ben Jealous was the CEO of the Rosenburg Foundation which was founded in San Francisco in 1935 and is headquartered on Steuart Street in the city. I find it hard to believe that the search for a new NAACP leader was really national in scope.

The third item is that a vote of 34 to 21 to ratify Mr. Jealous’ appointment is really not a vote of confidence and signifies a degree of resistance to his becoming the CEO that is counter-productive and portends trouble for him and the NAACP. If nearly two-fifths of a board are opposed to hiring a candidate whose very success is highly dependent on an ability to create consensus, then that candidate’s tenure is not off to a good start. At the very least, the board should have voted, if only for symbolic reasons, to make its choice unanimous. This is poor process management on the part of the board’s officers and it will come back to haunt the organization.

Period.

The Reverend shouldn’t have had to give up his church. He’s a successful entrepreneur, unlike anything coming out of The NAACP.

Gordon tried to bring them into the latter 20th Century, and they turned their backs on it.

I really don’t have words for this organization.

I don’t doubt Mr. Jealous will make a fine President, but he is Julian Bond’s man, and his first loyalty will not be to the organization, but to Julian Bond, who has outlived his usefulness, and demonstrated it when he ran off Bruce Gordon from Verizon.

They wanted corporate and when Gordon acted corporate (meaning he meant to run things without always having to go before the 64-member board for approval for everything), Bond decided that brotha had to go.

Someone posted on another post on this blog that the fact that the NAACP board has 64 members is the problem right there. You will never get 64 Negroes to agree on what time it is, let alone on civil rights issues and policy.