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In Reply to: RE: Hmmmm.... posted by Bruce Kendall on May 23, 2008 at 10:45:43
"It wouldn't be the first time a member of the TAS team has done what you describe, and that tells me it is an organizational culture issue rather than being a JV issue. Don't you agree?"
Hi Bruce,
My own suspicion is that it is a touch of both - a cargo cult of what the new captains imagine the old ones were doing. It's cartoonish, in a way, and that JV has managed to weather the various storms that he seems otherwise to have caused seems evidence of an organizational hierarchy somewhat different than that which appears on the masthead. That is to say - he seems to have much more pull than a man in his position would ordinarily assume to have, and the very fact that his neck is intact seems evidence enough to argue it.
Regardless of whether or not this has been done to some extend in the past (and JV used some vague examples of such to justify his actions), it remains to be seen that a history of unpunished impropriety is the equivalent of future permission to continue the tradition.
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