I would like to here the Board's thought about the recent direction in Staffing. Also, I undertood David's earlier response regarding the Compliance Diretor to mean that Compliance now reports to Legal and so there is no intent to fill that position. Perhaps I misundertood, and perhaps it isn't yet clear to Staff either. Tim
-------- Original Message -------- Subject: [council] ICANN hires weight loss guru as vice president? From: "Rosette, Kristina" <krosette@cov.com> Date: Wed, March 09, 2011 8:32 am To: "'council@gnso.icann.org'" <council@gnso.icann.org
All, (With credit to Kevin Murphy at DomainIncite for breaking the story) ICANN has reportedly hired "a psychotherapist with a distinctly Buddhist bent who has previously specialized in weight loss" as Vice President for Organizational Effectiveness. http://domainincite.com/; http://www.icann.org/en/general/staff.html. ICANN has gone without a Director of Compliance for almost 9 months and the GNSO Council is being told that no new policy work should be initiated because of staff workload, yet ICANN focuses its resources on hiring a VP for Organizational Effectiveness? Unbelievable and inexcusable. Does anyone believe the organizational effectiveness has improved since Mr. Levinson was hired? I propose we raise this example of misplaced organizational priorities with the Board. I'm willing to sacrifice my GAC question to do so. Comments? K