Yes, indeed ! But it seems that Hisgrove and EY did not ask the right questions, if indeed they asked any. The decades-long connections of EY with NAB are a problem here — there must have been personal relations formed over the years which had an adverse effect on the application of due diligence.
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It does seem like Barham won’t be there long term.
It was right to do that. These are just not questions that are ever asked or contemplated.
They could’ve framed a question like
“Andrew, I am aware that you are the chair of a couple not-for-profit organisations. WIll be give up these roles if you are appointed Essendon CEO?”
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I’d have thought Hisgrove up until now. I don’t think it’s possible now and I’m not certain who on the board could do that. I’m with @Saucy, it has to be an outsider at election that is aligned with the change agenda.
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I don’t think the City on the Hill churches have much standing in the Anglican community.
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And it can’t be James Hird. Before anyone mentions it.
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The Board is relatively inexperienced (at Essendon)…. And seriously naive.
They have taken the advise of consultants (who specialise in Corporate services), without doing any due diligence or proper screening on the recommended applicant.
(Even without the backwards religious beleifs) If the Board honestly thought that employing someone at Essendon who was smashed in the Banking Royal Commission, and also ignored a conflict of interest in employing someone who conducted the External review…… if they didn’t realise these 2 things are enough to be front page news, they aren’t just Naive, they are incompetent.
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Has Barham resigned yet? Only time I think. Sadly I think this gets worse and may be a lot worse. Needs an EGM full board turn over. This is crazy ■■■■! He has to take ownership of this show!
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Looks good on a bio, if you don’t look too hard
I see it as someone selling the concept because of the decline in numbers of younger people in Anglican parishes.
The Anglican diocese in Sydney split over SSM
Anglican churches in Victoria will not bless same sex marriages.
Sheedy said something about outcomes from bringing in outsiders, which got him offside with a lot of posters
** outsaucing **
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Barham just needs to get us through this period now as cleanly as possible (enough mis steps already) then he can quietly manoeuvre off for a new President (that is NOT Hird or Sheedy aligned) to enjoy the fruits of his complete bastardry the past 2 months.
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As I have said, EY are specialists in Corporate services.
There is a big difference between employing a CEO for a business, to employing a CEO for a not for profit organisation, to employing a CEO for a high profile football club where everything is being scrutinised by the 50,000 members and a hungry media.
The scrutiny of conflicts of interests is magnified a 1000x at this club.
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Eh, that was still a stupid comment to make by Sheedy. We’ve made insider decisions for 20+ years and it hasn’t really worked. Thorburn appointment had good intentions, but the rigour of questions asked during the interview process re perceived conflict of interests, was clearly non-existent. That’s a failure that we’ve seemed to own so far but it’s not fatal to bringing in outsiders to assess the club or be employed by the club.
The reality is, most are just ruthless ■■■■■ with no need for sleep or genuine interactions with other human beings. The lack of need or desire for either of these thingssets them apart.
that’s the hard part, where does one draw the line.
disregarding the nab stuff, if he was merely associated to the church who held those views, but didn’t inflict them on others, how would it be handled ?
right or wrong is he not allowed his views, as long as he’s not doing an folau and telling people they are going to hell cos of it ?
reckon he’d still have been run out of town, cos optics and tribal warfare are todays extremist commodity of choice, but it’s a slippery slope were you can be crucified, pardon the pun for thoughts.
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We just need a good CEO. I hope Greg Swann.
Then Barham can detonate the nuke on himself and the board. And Dodoro.
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Could be a problem with an outsider of the football/ Essendon community brought into the club, who brings in other outsiders from the football community, but part of the community of the recruiter.