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Originally Posted by wnut
I think you are right on the money here!
Committees just never work, a designer trying to respond to every edict and whim justifying every decision he makes, just becomes exhausting and self defeating.
As they say a camel is a horse designed by committee, and it appears this years Macca is about as competitive as a camel would be in a group 1 race! 
Employ great people and hamstring them with the machinations of gnomes, brilliant just brilliant! |
to be entirely fair, i think it worked absolutely fine when ron dennis was the team god. the team setup mirrored his attitude to things, and when you have an absolutely meticulous approach to everything that runs all the way from the top right through to the bottom of the organisation in every single task and procedure then it works perfectly. it expands according to those requirements, and new workers are assimilated accordingly.
the problem, imo, has come with a change of leadership, and as brilliant as martin whitmarsh is, he's a completely different type of team god and manages things in a different way. now you have a mixed message, between the historical approach of the team and the new leader (who id distinctly more human), perhaps slightly different new recruits. even if it's just something like debriefs and problem solving being handled slightly differently it can have an effect.