[penguicon-general] Nifties

[Rachel Weisenfeld]

Jer, are you bringing your version of the org chart you guys did at Matt's
to identify open positions to the meeting on Saturday?  I think it would be
a good idea in case lots of people show up that we haven't recruited yet.
Also, perhaps we should start bringing it to MOFO? I don't even know if you
have it in printable format, but I think it would be a good thing.


On 5/17/07, Tracy Worcester <tracy.worcester at gmail.com> wrote:
>
> On 5/17/07, Matt Arnold <matt.mattarn at gmail.com> wrote:
> >
> > With that in mind, consider the post of conchair itself (not this
> > year, but over all years of the tradition of conventions in general).
> > I think it has two main divisions of tasks in it. One division is
> > concom recruitment and management to make sure the convention gets
> > created. Chief of Staff, essentially. It's a cat herder.
> >
> > The other division is full of tasks such as GoH strategy, hotel
> > contract, and budgeting, all of which involve reading the mind of
> > attendees, guessing how much return you would get for an expense, in a
> > cost-benefit tradeoff. They also tend to involve hostile negotiations
> > sometimes. How did these categories get combined into the same job?
> > I've often wondered why one person has to do both.
>
>
> Sometimes they aren't rolled together:  I've seen some chairs outsource
> parts of this role package.
>
> However, a few parts of the why for the tendency.
>
> 1.  Conchair management styles vary wildly.  While it would be possible to
> get someone else to recruit for you, like a first stage recruiter, they will
> include people who will be a bad match for your style, and exclude people
> you would have been able to work with.  Distributing the process that way
> can also make people less enthused or more paraonoid, depending on
> personality type.
>
> 2.  GoH strategy, contract, budgeting, hostile negotiations.  These are
> largely cascade from the "buck stops here" principle.  However, I personally
> tend to let the enthusiasms of my con comm drive my GoH choices, and I
> generally convince someone else to liaise with the hotel, so obviously the
> early portions of these *can* be outsourced.
>
> ...Tracy
>
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