Quote:
Originally Posted by 868904
But therein lies the problem with this organization, this will never be any GM's team. It will always be ownership and Ken King's team and when you have non-hockey people influencing hockey decisions, you get failure.
No qualified or good GM will want or get hired because they know this will never be "their" team. Any rational GM would rebuild and would say so in an interview and when they do that ownership and King would say "NEXT", until they get to a super desperate and incompetent GM who says "I think we are only a few pieces from winning a StaNley Cup, we don't need to rebuild".
|
As I said before, the reason that it will never be their team is that the organiztion doesn't know what it wants (and that has to come first). They keep giving guys the reins only to pull them back when they see where the guy is going. And that is exactly what happened in Toronto - they hired Burke and then got frightened by what he was doing.
Look at good, stable orgainizations, they can move seemlessly form one GM to their successor? Why? Are they yes men? No. They have autonomy. But the organiztional philosophy doesn't change, therefore they can continue on seemlessly.
I know that strategic planning isn't for everyone. But it is vital.
And providing an organizational direction and vision IS NOT the same as taking away their autonomy. Those are different things.