Re: "Unit Serving Executives" and other name changes....

In a message dated 98-07-21 21:56:59 EDT, you write:

<< *With the increasing competition to get corporate citizens to serve
as Council Presidents, wouldn't it better if the Council Scout
Executive serve as President AND as Scout Exec, therefore allowing
the volunteer to advise the professional and to provide more of a
day-to-day, consistantly managed program??
>>

I would view this possibility with alarm. I am much happier having our triad
(President, SE and CC) so that at least the volunteers are 2 to 1 to the
professionals. If you combine President & SE, I would agree that we
volunteers would become mere advisors to the professionally managed Scout
program.

I am sorry but I do not view "professional management" with the same degree of
joy that the professionals do. I like having a volunteer organization and,
while BSA Scouting is not purely voluneteer run, any move to make it less
volunteer run is not my idea of progress. Other countries already see BSA
Scouting as too professional. This type of move would make it more so.

Why is professional bad? (And please do not imagine that I knocking the work
of our DE's- I am not. I support them 100%) Because professional management
too often goes where the bucks are, not where the spirit leads. I see this as
a reason we have had some of our recent changes. The bucks that big buck
contributors represent has affected, I seem to sense, some of the actions of
the National Council.

Is this what will happen? I don't know. But I do point out that the more
"efficent" we are the less likely we are to do those things which are not
"cost effective". Whatever that means.

Yours in Scouting,

G. John Marmet
a Scouter
Pros get paid to do Scouting
Volunteers Scout for free
Scouters pay to do Scouting

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