[cma-l] C R Licensing - the Methodology

Thu Jun 1 14:10:16 BST 2017

It's good to operate a democratic dictatorship             it works
everyone has a say and is entitled to an opinion and can shape the way
forward - 1 person makes the decision whether we go ahead with it. In our
case it's 2, but the Chairman has the final say . this isn't the same as the
deciding vote is / it is the final say.

As for Committees, very good if run right, but if you end up with loads of
sub-committees you can soon find yourself having to call a meeting to get
permission to purchase a box of pens.

I leave you with the classic question ----------- What is a Donkey ?
Answer = A Donkey is a Horse designed by Committee

I believe when Community Radio first set out, this was one of the
fundamental things they got wrong ---- everything was judged '''in an ideal
World'''     from what we have experienced we are in anything but an ideal
World                      we tried the full on Committee malarkey and it
was a complete nightmare. After a while the strongest rise to the top ...as
long as you are lucky enough to have the right person who does that you will
be fine, it's if the wrong person does and you end up with own agendas then
????

Interesting topic.

Nick

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I was Neil - and you have clearly spoken for the station.
I totally agree that a Board or the equivalent is an advantage - I've been
on a few - but "committee management" designed the camel - and a "team"
philosophy in my experience simply doesn't produce good management.
As with running the country - sorry - what works best is a benevolent
dictator.

Ian Hickling

Partner

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Speak for yourself!

(That says it all really!) 

Neil Munday

Operations Director 
Susy Radio 103.4

A community radio station with a board who work our socks off!

On 31 May 2017 at 08:22, Ian Hickling <transplanfm at hotmail.com
<mailto:transplanfm at hotmail.com> > wrote:

It's just struck me how Ofcom and indeed the Government have got it just a
bit wrong with Community Radio.

Look at any CR station.

What do you see?

An Area?

A Community?

An Organisation?

No

You see one person - one motivated dedicated let's-just-get-it-done person.

Ed Vaizey during his time as Minister is on record as saying that Government
policy is that every community that wants its own radio station should have
one.

Excellent.

But communities don't act as one and it's impossible to get a decision or
useful action out of a community without having a focal point.

The root cause is the "team" philosophy.

Teams don't make decisions.

As we've said before - in the most efficient organisations there is no "f"
in team.

Ofcom is wasting its own and our time in putting the invitation to submit a
CR Application out to areas under this hypothetical "fairness" principle.

When all these additional Applications are in, let's look at how many
*viable* ones we have - in addition to those from EOIs

I suspect very very few.

Q E D - as Pythagoras is reputed to have exclaimed

Ian Hickling

Partner

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Office: 016 3557 8435  (07h to 22h GTS)

Car: 075 3098 0115 (only responds when driving)

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