[council] ICANN hires weight loss guru as vice president?

[Alan Greenberg]

David's message said "we are hoping to post a notice shortly 
concerning the two open positions".

I sort of assumed/hoped/prayed that the notice would say that they 
had filled the positions, not that they had shelved the them!

Alan

At 09/03/2011 10:57 AM, Rosette, Kristina wrote:
>Much more diplomatically put, Tim.
>
>I had understood David to mean only that John Jeffries is now the 
>person to whom Compliance staffing questions should be directed and 
>not that there is no current intention to fill the Director of 
>Compliance position.  Although, if the latter is true, I would 
>certainly like to know that.
>
>
>----------
>From: Tim Ruiz [mailto:tim at godaddy.com]
>Sent: Wednesday, March 09, 2011 10:55 AM
>To: Rosette, Kristina
>Cc: council at gnso.icann.org
>Subject: RE: [council] ICANN hires weight loss guru as vice president?
>
>I would like to here the Board's thought about the recent direction in
>Staffing. Also, I undertood David's earlier response regarding the
>Compliance Diretor to mean that Compliance now reports to Legal and so
>there is no intent to fill that position. Perhaps I misundertood, and
>perhaps it isn't yet clear to Staff either.
>
>
>Tim
>
> > -------- Original Message --------
> > Subject: [council] ICANN hires weight loss guru as vice president?
> > From: "Rosette, Kristina"
> > Date: Wed, March 09, 2011 8:32 am
> > To: "'council at gnso.icann.org'" >
> >
> > All,
> >
> > (With credit to Kevin Murphy at DomainIncite for breaking the 
> story)  ICANN has reportedly hired "a psychotherapist with a 
> distinctly Buddhist bent who has previously specialized
> > in weight loss" as Vice President for Organizational 
> Effectiveness.  http://domainincite.com/; 
> http://www.icann.org/en/general/staff.html.
> > ICANN has gone without a Director of Compliance for almost 9 
> months and the GNSO Council is being told that no new policy work 
> should be initiated because of staff workload, yet
> > ICANN focuses its resources on hiring a VP for Organizational 
> Effectiveness?  Unbelievable and inexcusable.  Does anyone believe 
> the organizational effectiveness has improved since Mr. Levinson 
> was hired?
> > I propose we raise this example of misplaced organizational 
> priorities with the Board.  I'm willing to sacrifice my GAC question to do so.
> > Comments?
> > K
> >
> >
> >
> >
> >
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