For goodness sakes, it as obvious as the nose on your face.

Joan DuBois, if qualifed and willing, should become the office manager and
interim Executive Director.

I have seen her in operation personally (impressive leadership skills,
IMHO), watched her succeed in producing a very fine email Newsletter, which
by any standards, serves several key purposes in the business.

Tom Klem


"Kevin L. Bachler" wrote in message
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In article 3h3Cc.96814$0y.87270@attbi_s03, Tim Hanke says...
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USCF had spun out of control, and perhaps the best symbol of the
situation
was that our Executive Director failed to show up at the 2003 annual
meeting
in Los Angeles and did not respond to phone calls or email. I feel
obliged
to mention, we later discovered that this same Executive Director had
signed
several contracts without Executive Board knowledge or approval, and had
made a number of oral agreements we felt obliged to honor. These
contracts
and oral agreements proved to be expensive and burdensome to USCF. To
prevent future problems of this sort, rules should be established
governing
the Executive Director's ability to make contracts and other financial
commitments.

Based on this comment, and on earlier comments regarding what we are
willing to
pay the ED, it sounds to me that we should quit calling this position ED,
and
should call it Office Manager, or perhaps Business Manager. A "real" ED
or CEO
would never accept not being able to make business arrangements, and the
Executive Board would typically be involved in strategic goal setting and
setting high level policy and not executing contractual arrangements.

If we really can't afford an ED, or don't want an ED, then we shouldn't
label it
as such.

Kevin L. Bachler