ABC Hysterics Miss The Organisational Point
So Janet Albrechtsen and Neil Brown have been appointed, not to the ABC Board, but to the ABC Board Nomination Panel. Ho hum.
The ridiculous responses to these appointments reveal two things: just how the Left views the ABC as its plaything, and how little they really understand about changing organisational culture.
To focus on the second, there is no doubt that in large organisations, personnel is policy. You can talk about leadership and strategic alignment till you are blue in the face, but if you don’t have people who support your vision from senior management to supervisors, forget it.
KPIs, bonuses, reports, oversight, audit and pseudo-transparency will do nothing if those people oppose your changes. The only way to make real change is to replace those who oppose with those who support the change.
If you doubt it, look at how little any public service really changes when there is a change in government. And governments have the power to make change, unlike a Nomination Panel.
So the hysterics are overblown. The workshop for Leftists sheltering from the real world will continue. It would continue even if the Board itself had a conservative majority. Because appointments at that level will have no effect on the hiring and firing of Leftist fellow travellers from receptionist to radio host. Even if there were a spill and re-application process, guess what? Oddly enough, the experience of the incumbents would perfectly match the selection criteria, much as is the case with spills in the broader public service. Same faces popping up, culture not changing a jot.
Which also makes the decision to appoint Albrechtsen and Brown pointless in the first place.
The Commonwealth needs to sh*t or get off the pot. Either do something that will make a difference to the ABC’s perpetual propaganda, or spend your time somewhere else. Pretending to act may be this government’s core competency everywhere except within 100km of Christmas Island, but all it does is piss away political capital for no benefit.
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This lefty vs right thing (sides of politics) seems to potentially stop any type of good debate or rational narrative around any contentious type topics. Perhaps left and right really have no relevance to the 21st century and what is truly lacking is actual leadership around vision and values. Leadership 101 has been banging on for years about triple and quadruple bottom line and most large corporates embrace this notion, so why not government? As leader of our nation, Mr Abbott should be tweaking the budget to ensure the best possible outcome for the people not inciting fear and anxiety. As a leader, his focus should be EDUCATION (not using the US as the model), HEALTHCARE – our system is the BEST in the world, don’t dismantle it and to ensure the Australian way of giving everyone a FAIR GO — this is vision and values. His approach is mean-spirited, lacking authenticity and basic understanding of the needs of his people. The ABC has its role in all of this – and that is to call it as it is seen. Andrew Bolt et al, are spewing forth their version of the world, where is the balance if the ABC can’t have its say? And besides which the ABC is much more than just news. You have to admit this government does seem to have an agenda. Mr Abbotts TO DO: list was developed by the IPA. I don’t remember the Australian nation being provided with opportunity to vote for them; in fact pretty sure there was NO vote for them, yet it is clearly their agenda – refer to 75 radical ideas, which Mr Abbott is ticking off his list pretty quickly. So, this government is failing SIMPLY through lack of authentic leadership and vision. There is NO hope. It is all about CUT, REPEAL, SLASH and BURN. *sigh*