You and your career are the perfect example of the Peter Principle gone wild. In a movement that needs each and every experienced, successful professional you allowed your misperceptions and prejudices to run crazy here in Baltimore.
You have violated the trust of volunteers and contributors by spinning every number to your advantage. You move to New York City as the Great Financial Wizard of BSA, Inc. and you’re a fraud—taking credit for the work and planning of some outstanding Scouters. Anyone can cut services and be penny wise and pound foolish, but to ask everyone on your staff to take cuts in their performance increases while you take a 45% pay increase—the degree of your sense of entitlement knew few bounds.
Baltimore’s board of misdirection is to blame for allowing someone like you to serve young people. The National Council is to blame for allowing you to continue in BSA, Inc. All of us here in Baltimore Scouting should have done more to question your leadership style.
Scouting is a self-correcting organization and before too long the same old hands will be running everything on the volunteer side of the house. It will take a long time to rebuild the capabilities of the professional / support staff. The three major reasons the board hired you: finances, Broad Creek use, and city Scouting are already caving in on themselves. Friends of Scouting is way down, summer camp attendance is so far off the mark that you closed one of the camps and city Scouting, after all the crap you forced down everyone’s throat is in the same shape it always will be in. Great job Ethan; go get them in the Big Apple!
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Free at Last Free at Last thank GOD Almighty Free at Last! or so we think? Baltimore will not be completely free until all of team Ethan are gone! Membership and Money games are still being played today as we speak just watch and listen to the reports being made as part of the annual meeting!
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