Author: Aren Cambre
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In a possible death spiral, national bets the farm on bureaucrats, not program
Roger Mosby turned BSA into a risk-management and fundraising organization.
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Councils skipping BSA’s “good old boy” system to find competent CEOs
BSA’s employment-for-life system creates obeisant bureaucrats. Want a leader? Hire from outside.
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Boy Scouts’s bumbling CEOs cause inertia, leadership vacuum
BSA’s leadership vacuum comes form decades of careerist-bureaucrat CEOs.
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BSA’s CEO position is too important to be a reward for career lifers
A leader at the helm is crucial to BSA’s survival. Its career-advancement system runs off leaders, so we must hire from outside.
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BSA feedback responses: deny then retaliate, intimidate, dismiss, lie, or slander
The national organization acts like a parasite.
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Failed councils love fees
In today’s episode of “what the hell is going on”, we have the Crossroads of America Council. Starting April 1, 2023, its new bureaucracy-preservation fees inflate annual membership costs to $340, 304% of the prior year’s cost. That’s right, just to be a Scout in this council, you will have to pay $340 a year.…
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Departed Scouts: letting them go usually is best
I was Cubmaster of a large pack for 5 years. The biggest waste of my time, in terms of return on value, was re-recruiting departed Scouts. What I learned: On poor den program, not supporting my Den Leaders enough may have been the #1 thing I would have changed if I had a do-over. The…
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The case for equity and inclusion: Ending BSA’s specious coed ban
In 2018 and 2019, BSA allowed girls into its boys-only programs. This inclusion was accompanied by a ban on coed Cub Scout dens or coed Scouts BSA troops. The coed ban is specious: It rests on misinformation and on sexist, racist, and harmful folklore. Its pile-on effects reduce youth safety, harm members, and harm the…