Author: Aren Cambre
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Failing to kill most Cub Scout camping, BSA’s cultural rot on full display
How it tried to gut Cub Scout camping reveals how little BSA values competence, truth telling, or serving its members.
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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.…