CEO - Shane Richardson

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Mighty_Tiger said:
Everything above is exactly why Justin failed.

A CEO leads, they establish controls/structure/governance and early on simplify the decision makers to then gradually grow the scope towards the plan. They then focus on the team around them often 3-6mths from appointment to build an executive/team that can execute to the required plan.

The board embraces the change and dynamics that flow as part of their decision process. They want a change not same old.

Knowledge of the inner workings isn’t critical day 1 especially when an organization hasn’t been performing for an extended time.

Richo needs to be oblivious to it on purpose he needs to focus top down and have confidence in who he drives into leader roles and other positions they will deliver. He will head into structure mode soon enough and I expect a few more people to be moved on.

If Justin could download all those aspects then it highlights even more so how bad a CEO he was as he ignored them & couldn’t action them.

Experience however in being an executive in the field they are employed is critical which Richo has.
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I disagree.

The board has the plan and vision and especially our ex board featuring an interventional Lee, keen to show the world who is boss.

Richo can’t change what he doesn’t understand. His formative days at the club were spent learning about its operations. I am happy to confirm that with him when I get the opportunity at a club event. I’ve met him before, he’s happy to engage with anyone if it’s constructive. You should ask him too.

If he doesn’t understand the club, he can’t deploy the changes he thinks are necessary.

Justin was always present at the behest of the board, there is no way around that fact.

CEOs analyse and assess the beast they are supposed to manage. Otherwise they run the risk of courting disaster.

Justin should be approached and his understanding of the club and it’s operations taken into account on Richos Assessment.

And we needed change sure and we agree that by and large Richos changes seem Ok, but we have a long way to go.

Richo won’t get everything right, no CEO does.

He wants to be careful about who he sacks and who he retains.

We’ve seen him take out a few soft targets already such as the gear steward.

How the gear steward contributed to the spoons and the general denigration of the club remains unknown. A bit of a laugh on its face.

We all want Richo to succeed, we all think he’s the best candidate to help us, but I’m remaining open to criticism and questioning all club decisions.

That’s my right and my role as a member. If I care, I speak up and speak out. If I’m wrong, fine.

And as @Tucker can vouch for, there was no bigger critic of the old regime than me. Lee would have more than enough material to bankrupt me, several times over and enough to keep my descendants in perpetual poverty for 4 generations.

Let’s take a measured approach to all serious matters concerning our beloved club.

The club is on its knees, beaten to a bloody pulp, gizzards hanging everywhere…and one of the priority decisions is to sack the gear steward?

If that doesn’t raise an eyebrow and a wry smile, nothing will.
 
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Tiger Karen said:
I disagree.

The board has the plan and vision and especially our ex board featuring an interventional Lee, keen to show the world who is boss.

Richo can’t change what he doesn’t understand. His formative days at the club were spent learning about its operations. I am happy to confirm that with him when I get the opportunity at a club event. I’ve met him before, he’s happy to engage with anyone if it’s constructive. You should ask him too.

If he doesn’t understand the club, he can’t deploy the changes he thinks are necessary.

Justin was always present at the behest of the board, there is no way around that fact.

CEOs analyse and assess the beast they are supposed to manage. Otherwise they run the risk of courting disaster.

Justin should be approached and his understanding of the club and it’s operations taken into account on Richos Assessment.

And we needed change sure and we agree that by and large Richos changes seem Ok, but we have a long way to go.

Richo won’t get everything right, no CEO does.

He wants to be careful about who he sacks and who he retains.

We’ve seen him take out a few soft targets already such as the gear steward.

How the gear steward contributed to the spoons and the general denigration of the club remains unknown. A bit of a laugh on its face.

We all want Richo to succeed, we all think he’s the best candidate to help us, but I’m remaining open to criticism and questioning all club decisions.

That’s my right and my role as a member. If I care, I speak up and speak out. If I’m wrong, fine.

And as @Tucker can vouch for, there was no bigger critic of the old regime than me. Lee would have more than enough material to bankrupt me, several times over and enough to keep my descendants in perpetual poverty for 4 generations.

Let’s take a measured approach to all serious matters concerning our beloved club.

The club is on its knees, beaten to a bloody pulp, gizzards hanging everywhere…and one of the priority decisions is to sack the gear steward?

If that doesn’t raise an eyebrow and a wry smile, nothing will.
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Sounds like you have Friday arvo beers with this gear steward. Grown men can carry their own tackling bags and witches hats. Richo has said publicly he could see some unnecessary stuff happening within the club. Maybe he decided Harry the gear steward was surplus to needs.

In Richo’s words, I’m going to question everything that is not helping Benji win football games.
 
BAGNF05 said:
Sounds like you have Friday arvo beers with this gear steward. Grown men can carry their own tackling bags and witches hats. Richo has said publicly he could see some unnecessary stuff happening within the club. Maybe he decided Harry the gear steward was surplus to needs.

In Richo’s words, I’m going to question everything that is not helping Benji win football games.
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Gear steward Vince was fired 4 conduct related
incidents I've been told, not to save a buck or 2
 
BAGNF05 said:
In Richo’s words, I’m going to question everything that is not helping Benji win football games.
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Richo:

“ And before I actually find out from Benji what he thinks he needs to win games and before turning my mind to this trivial matter of employing a recruitment officer and delegated staff, the most pressing issue this club currently faces is the continued tenure of Vince the gear steward”

Ffs, give me a break you lot lol.
 
Come on @Tucker, you’re a big boss with lots of peoples careers and lives in your hands.

What did Vince do that deserved such priority at the highest and most esteemed levels of the club?

Was he poisoning the Gatorade?

Forgot a sock one day?
 
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Tiger Karen said:
I disagree.

The board has the plan and vision and especially our ex board featuring an interventional Lee, keen to show the world who is boss.

Richo can’t change what he doesn’t understand. His formative days at the club were spent learning about its operations. I am happy to confirm that with him when I get the opportunity at a club event. I’ve met him before, he’s happy to engage with anyone if it’s constructive. You should ask him too.

If he doesn’t understand the club, he can’t deploy the changes he thinks are necessary.

Justin was always present at the behest of the board, there is no way around that fact.

CEOs analyse and assess the beast they are supposed to manage. Otherwise they run the risk of courting disaster.

Justin should be approached and his understanding of the club and it’s operations taken into account on Richos Assessment.

And we needed change sure and we agree that by and large Richos changes seem Ok, but we have a long way to go.

Richo won’t get everything right, no CEO does.

He wants to be careful about who he sacks and who he retains.

We’ve seen him take out a few soft targets already such as the gear steward.

How the gear steward contributed to the spoons and the general denigration of the club remains unknown. A bit of a laugh on its face.

We all want Richo to succeed, we all think he’s the best candidate to help us, but I’m remaining open to criticism and questioning all club decisions.

That’s my right and my role as a member. If I care, I speak up and speak out. If I’m wrong, fine.

And as @Tucker can vouch for, there was no bigger critic of the old regime than me. Lee would have more than enough material to bankrupt me, several times over and enough to keep my descendants in perpetual poverty for 4 generations.

Let’s take a measured approach to all serious matters concerning our beloved club.

The club is on its knees, beaten to a bloody pulp, gizzards hanging everywhere…and one of the priority decisions is to sack the gear steward?

If that doesn’t raise an eyebrow and a wry smile, nothing will.
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I understand your view it makes logical sense but reality is often something different.

I’m yet to see good intent from a knowingly punted executive leader add value, if anything it prolongs and confuses the initial changes needed especially in an organization that hasn’t performed for an extended period & has had a high turnover of key personnel.
 
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Mighty_Tiger said:
I can understand your points but having extensive experience in executive led transformations & my experience is that this doesn’t yield the goodwill results people intend them to do so. The Wests Tigers isn’t a huge organization, it’s structure isn’t as straightforward as others however it shouldn’t need detailed handovers on operating plans and activities especially to the CEO if it was being managed correctly.

You get hooked on the gear steward often do you honestly think that role was a priority call from Richo - it most likely was either Benji or a very direct personal clash that led to a role being unattainable.
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At least 72 employees and your argument is that Richo shouldn’t find out what they are doing, how they are doing it and why?

We’ve got the spoon!

As for the steward, that’s a clear example of white line fever at executive level when one have thought our problems are far more urgent and profound.

And also, despite all changes so made, we haven’t yet seen any actual on field outcomes which is the litmus test of all that is being done, by whomever.

We could do worse under the emergency hb junta and Richo, spoon and adverse for and against. We don’t know.
 
As for your appeal to authority and lived experience @Mighty_Tiger, fair enough, yes, I’m a 2ic now.

And we put a lot of time into our staff on many different levels.

We want them at optimum, and like a footy side, some respond better to some stimulus than others.

Open door policy, no such thing as a stupid question. We don’t use fear, we use care.

We had to “let someone go” recently but not without multiple prior warnings.

Needless to say, from that persons perspective, it was all our fault!!

People can get very vindictive post release. Get very personal ( vengeance mode).

Relating it to footy, it was a bit like BJ hammering Madge!!

I’m sure you’ve experienced the wrath of the discarded. Just proves we were right.

At least Justin was philosophical about it. Madge wasn’t heard from was he?

And Timinator just slithered away. I expected something. Maybe his feelings were badly hurt?
 
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Tiger Karen said:
At least 72 employees and your argument is that Richo shouldn’t find out what they are doing, how they are doing it and why?

We’ve got the spoon!

As for the steward, that’s a clear example of white line fever at executive level when one have thought our problems are far more urgent and profound.

And also, despite all changes so made, we haven’t yet seen any actual on field outcomes which is the litmus test of all that is being done, by whomever.

We could do worse under the emergency hb junta and Richo, spoon and adverse for and against. We don’t know.
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You have your view, I have a different one.

Enjoy the weekend.
 
Tiger Karen said:
As for your appeal to authority and lived experience @Mighty_Tiger, fair enough, yes, I’m a 2ic now.

And we put a lot of time into our staff on many different levels.

We want them at optimum, and like a footy side, some respond better to some stimulus than others.

Open door policy, no such thing as a stupid question. We don’t use fear, we use care.

We had to “let someone go” recently but not without multiple prior warnings.

Needless to say, from that persons perspective, it was all our fault!!

People can get very vindictive post release. Get very personal ( vengeance mode).

Relating it to footy, it was a bit like BJ hammering Madge!!

I’m sure you’ve experienced the wrath of the discarded. Just proves we were right.

At least Justin was philosophical about it. Madge wasn’t heard from was he?

And Timinator just slithered away. I expected something. Maybe his feelings were badly hurt?
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This is such a poorly worded example, but a statement, or indictment on our club nonetheless
 
If I’m going to be personally bullied on-line here for expressing an opinion about the club (which I’m a financial member of) I may as well leave.

This is exactly why I left the wt forum at the other site.

Out of the fire, into the frying pan.

Thanks so much.
 
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Tiger Karen said:
If I’m going to be personally bullied on-line here for expressing an opinion about the club (which I’m a financial member of) I may as well leave.

This is exactly why I left the wt forum at the other site.

Out of the fire, into the frying pan.

Thanks so much.
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I tried to give you the benefit of the doubt Karen or Silverdale or whoever you are but your ramblings are becoming incoherent. You are not an insider at the club. Anyway so it’s of to the ignore section for me. Don’t fret you will not be alone as there a few others to keep you company. See ya
 
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