Maria De La Cruz wrote:
It is clear that the board, who we must remember hired her, did not have trust in Jackie. With that being said, I think that when the relationship between the board and the ED is strained, then the organization will suffer.

Maria, Rebecca, Ben... thanks for your thoughts on the management situation. I'd like to suggest that Jackie inherited a terminally ill patient to begin with, and neither she nor the board probably realized it at the time. The organization was suffering in spite of Jackie, not because of her. I suspect they were all hopeful, and I believe that the board had more trust in Jackie than Maria gives credit. Eric was starting to get wary that Jackie might not have the skills to pull it out, but that's the only clue we have that anyone on the board didn't have full faith in Jackie. She might have had a hard go of it after that meeting if the board had appointed an interim director or decided to be more deliberate in their decision making, but they seemed to have faith in Jackie's decision-making. It would take a lot for somebody to move to take a new job in a new city, and then cut her own feet off. Maybe we should applaud Jackie's courage.

Mark