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Mostly “Fire Geoff Collins”, some reminiscing, maybe bourbon or other distractions
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<blockquote data-quote="Augusta_Jacket" data-source="post: 835580" data-attributes="member: 1191"><p>Not what I was saying. His personality isn't the issue. It's the salesman persona. When you are perceived as a salesman, your product better be worth buying. We needed a salesman, but we probably could have used less "Billy Mays" in the approach. You see this by overuse of words like "elite" and "effort" in all his pressers. At some point, you make those words meaningless when they aren't used to describe things that actually meet the criteria. Sure, they make recruits feel better to have a little sunshine blown their way, but in the long run, it's not accurate, and after a year or two, the fanbase starts to see right through it. That's where we are right now. IMO, and I stress opinion, he would have been much better off explaining the process in terms so that people could measure progress. Yes, a few blowhards would have pitched a fit, but the larger fan base would probably have understood the needed changes and would better understand the time involved to enact them. As it stands, what we "see" right now is a salesman that has failed to deliver simply because the fan base wasn't made aware that the results would take a while to manifest. </p><p></p><p>Nothing to do with personality, all to do with perceived expectations vs reality.</p></blockquote><p></p>
[QUOTE="Augusta_Jacket, post: 835580, member: 1191"] Not what I was saying. His personality isn't the issue. It's the salesman persona. When you are perceived as a salesman, your product better be worth buying. We needed a salesman, but we probably could have used less "Billy Mays" in the approach. You see this by overuse of words like "elite" and "effort" in all his pressers. At some point, you make those words meaningless when they aren't used to describe things that actually meet the criteria. Sure, they make recruits feel better to have a little sunshine blown their way, but in the long run, it's not accurate, and after a year or two, the fanbase starts to see right through it. That's where we are right now. IMO, and I stress opinion, he would have been much better off explaining the process in terms so that people could measure progress. Yes, a few blowhards would have pitched a fit, but the larger fan base would probably have understood the needed changes and would better understand the time involved to enact them. As it stands, what we "see" right now is a salesman that has failed to deliver simply because the fan base wasn't made aware that the results would take a while to manifest. Nothing to do with personality, all to do with perceived expectations vs reality. [/QUOTE]
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