<div dir="ltr"><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">This is a story in reprise from heated conversations many years ago at the Sloan School of Management when corporate strategy was discussed. </div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">I readily confess that I am one who believes that it is the CEO who must answer to the Board on the matter of staff output. Because there ought to be administrative procedures that are in place to address them. Like performance measurements for staff appraisals.</div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif"><br></div><div class="gmail_default" style="font-family:tahoma,sans-serif">I am still persuaded by that view. So, if there is a concern that staff have acted in ways that delegitimize or dilute the currency of any request that properly should lead to an administrative action in their competence, then the CEO must be advised. Thereafter, we may well find out it is incompetence rather than spite. <span style="font-size:large"> </span></div><div><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_signature" data-smartmail="gmail_signature"><div dir="ltr"><div><div dir="ltr"><div><br>==============================<br><i><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif">Carlton A Samuels</font></i><br><font face="comic sans ms, sans-serif"><i>Mobile: 876-818-1799<br><font color="#33CC00">Strategy, Process, Governance, Assessment & Turnaround</font></i></font><br>=============================</div></div></div></div></div></div><br></div><br><div class="gmail_quote"><div dir="ltr" class="gmail_attr">On Sat, Jan 1, 2022 at 6:37 AM Olivier MJ Crépin-Leblond via At-Large <<a href="mailto:at-large@atlarge-lists.icann.org">at-large@atlarge-lists.icann.org</a>> wrote:<br></div><blockquote class="gmail_quote" style="margin:0px 0px 0px 0.8ex;border-left:1px solid rgb(204,204,204);padding-left:1ex">
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<div>On 30/12/2021 19:36, Jonathan Zuck via
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<blockquote type="cite">I
actually raised this very issue, while we were working on the
accountability framework. At the time, folks believed the power to
throw out the board would suffice but clearly that is a tool of
last resort.</blockquote>
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Many people, myself included, raised the question of staff
accountability - and also during successive ATRT sessions. And for
reasons that are their own, others resisted this and thought
everything hinged on the Board - how naive.<br>
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I recall responses separately made during the usual ALAC "grilling"
sessions of the ICANN CEO at each iCANN meeting, of both successive
CEOs, Fadi Chehadé and Göran Marby, and staff accountability was
dealt with internally and that the CEO of ICANN is the warrantor of
that accountability. Perhaps should you complain to the ICANN CEO
about his organisation's alleged inability to take action in a
reasonable time?<br>
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Kindest regards,<br>
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Olivier<br>
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