Quote:GD – “My money would be on bringing in an external candidate for the ASA CEO role, someone preferably from an international background. As with CAsA and ATSBeaker there are many competent choices out there, much better choices than the ridiculous ex RAAF/Australian bureaucrats that keep getting gifted the top roles.”
Amen to that; let's at least spend the dollars on professionals.
The Kiwi success story paints a clear picture; ruthlessly they cleaned out all the deadwood and started again, with fresh blood and new ideas. ASA, ATSB and CASA are all stuck in a time warp. The resistance to cultural change within these organisations is remarkable and has survived, unscathed for generations. The only constant.
Hoody is a not a bad sort, but he has blood on his hands from his CASA days, best of a bad lot, I’ll agree and probably in the right position. But it’s the top end which needs to be cleaned out; but will it? The Houston defence has been built, the early part of the last committee session laid the foundations and we will be expected to swallow the fairy story. A few like Harfi tossed on the bonfire, couple of sacrificial lambs. the odd scapegoat a brief period of window dressing and it will be business as usual. You can see it happening now with CASA; delay, soothing words, empty gestures, oil on the troubled waters; time passes, normal service resumed; it’s a game.
Big money and power politics will win the game; any suspicion that An(g)us had his fingers in the pie will be eradicated. But I ask you, is it likely that a board responsible for hundreds of millions of dollars and huge contracts are so naïve that they are unaware of what occurs behind the scenes, when this much money is involved.
Bollocks – they know, they remain at arms length; but they know. Hell the tea lady knows how it works. There are two options; the board is either complicit or; so naïve that they would buy the harbour bridge from a bloke in the pub. Either way – it’s unacceptable, except it is accepted by those who pay for the fun and games; the mugs, i.e. us.
Leave Hoody running ‘operations’ and bring in a real CEO; one who is well versed in and skilled at ‘negotiations’ of this type; a person who know the game, can find the ladders, spot the snakes and manage the board. As GD says, plenty of first class contenders out there; just a matter of getting the right specification from the DoIT. Can you imagine the Murky Machiavellian drafting the ‘spec’ for a honest, clean skin who knows the game. Fat chance, but, it’s nice thought to start the day.