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Subject: Corrosive Leadership Author: An Observer [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ] Date Posted: 12:40:45 04/21/26 Tue In reply to: Son of Eli 's message, "Re: Yale Athletic Administrators Scandal" on 10:28:32 04/21/26 Tue I don't mean to pile on here, because I have zero first hand knowledge inside the Yale athletics administration. But having worked for professional services firms and been exposed to both them and their client organizations spanning the continuum from world class to poor, I say with confidence that there are no world class companies without world class leadership. You can't build a winning organization with incompetence at the top. Sometimes, an organization can be high functioning with good leadership when the latter gets replaced by a less capable new team. The organization can keep running well for a while because organizations have momentum and inertia. The flywheel can keep spinning smoothly for a while. But eventually, incompetence at the top flows downhill. The best people at the next level down will only tolerate working for poor managers for so long. The best people have the highest standards and the most options; they leave. That starts the exodus because their subordinates, whom the second level managers protected from senior leadership, then want to leave, too. It doesn't matter if you are an athletic department or the federal government. Incompetence at the top is irresistibly corrosive. [ Next Thread | Previous Thread | Next Message | Previous Message ]

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[> [> [> Subject: Re: Corrosive Leadership Author: Ivy ivy [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 12:53:13 04/21/26 Tue Chun came in 8 years ago, and things seem to be doing pretty well still. Basketball and football thriving, multiple Ivy titles and near titles for many other sports. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> [> Subject: Re: Corrosive Leadership Author: observer [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 16:27:51 04/21/26 Tue Given the resource and facilities advantages that HYP have over the "dwarves", the comparisons shouldn't be to the league, but only HP. Where does Eli rank in terms of overall success compared to the Johns and Ol' Nassau? [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> [> [> Subject: Re: Corrosive Leadership Author: Ivy wanna be [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 22:41:42 04/21/26 Tue Time to cast her adrift, along with her Colgate Cronies. Still no 10th game scheduled for the upcoming season. She is so unapproachable and won’t engage in a conversation. Let alone one question. Definitely not like Tom Beckett, who was just the opposite. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> [> [> [> Subject: Re: Corrosive Leadership Author: Ivy ivy [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 11:30:50 04/22/26 Wed 10th game has nothing to do with her. [ Post a Reply to This Message ]

[> [> [> [> [> [> [> Subject: Re: Corrosive Leadership Author: Go Green [ Edit | View ] Date Posted: 13:28:46 04/22/26 Wed Then who is responsible for Yale getting the 10th game? [ Post a Reply to This Message ]