[Kzyxtalk] "Flat Top" Management - Foxes Guarding The Henhouse

[Scott Peterson]

here's where the trouble started, IMO:

http://www.greenmac.com/hiddenAgenda/responses/KZYX_History_1996.html


"During his tenure Tymon hired Nicole Sawaya to fill the Program Director's slot 

which had been vacated when Brian Wood resigned at the end of Susan Newstead's 

term.  With Tymon now gone, Jill Hannum was hired as an interim station manager 

and, along with Nicole Sawaya and Operations director Jack Tyselling, presented the 

Board with a “flat top” management proposal, which created a management team 

made up of the Business Manager, the Programmer Director and the Operations 

Director.  In the spring of 1994 Claudia Vierra was hired to fill the Business Manager 

slot that Jill Hanum had been filling temporarily.

"The Board now had oversight function over three management positions, a task 

which it never carried out very well. The Board had a hard enough time evaluating 

one Director and never formally evaluated the job performances of the three 

“flat top” managers.  With the lack of evaluations, the staff essentially stepped in 

and did their own defacto evaluation, and the management team began to over rule 

her on key decisions that were proprietary to the Business Manager.  She resigned in 

early 1995 and essentially Nicole ran the station, giving it a long needed tenure of 

stability and energy that was crucial to its survival."

Translation: In 1993, the foxes started guarding the henhouse at KZYX. Interesting

how this biography -- written in 1996 -- saw a total management vacuum as such

a wonderful thing. Thus setting the stage for the puppet show we have today.

Sincerely,

Scott M. Peterson

Mendocino

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