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Jerry Larson, International President:  "Members do not want the confusion of who was interviewed by the Nominating Committee and who was not, or who was selected and who was not."

And now the last batch of lawyers letters about events and logos are said to be staving off confusion of the WBCCI membership.

"Confusion say"  appears to be the new stop gap in leu of truth and transparency.

Wasn't that the reason the IBT made its own initiative to change the name of WBCCI to AOAI to begin with?  Because it was confusing vendors and host sponsors and prospective members?  And now just as determinedly the IBT has sent out legal notices to stop the use of the name again because the members may become confused.

There are a lot of members  bewildered right now.  Some are baffled, astonished, embarrassed, perturbed, frustrated, misinformed and misled.  But who is the source of this confusion the mystified membership?  Or the addled, upset and worried leadership that refuses to clarify, clear up, enlighten or explain what's going on?

[ByamCaravanner]

RIght Carol,

What irony that the very part of what they wanted to shed from the club name "Wally Byam" is what they are spending non-existent club money to protect.

Now I am waiting for the Obama to sue JC Penneys next time they have a "Presidents Sale" 

Do these folks realize how silly they look to the membership?

[WKerfoot]

RIght Carol,

What irony that the very part of what they wanted to shed from the club name "Wally Byam" is what they are spending non-existent club money to protect.

Now I am waiting for the Obama to sue JC Penneys next time they have a "Presidents Sale" 

Do these folks realize how silly they look to the membership?

Most of the members have no idea of what is going on.

Bill

[Simon]

Then we need to educate the membership, right?

[WKerfoot]

Then we need to educate the membership, right?

Any ideas?  How many members were notified about the IBT survey and how many bothered to respond?

Thousands v. hundreds

Bill

[65GT]

Bill,

I had pretty much manually entered unit leader email addresses for Regions 1 - 5 for the Pocono Raceway Rally.  Once the survey come together, I started culling and hand entering more.  Strictly from memory, I believe the total mailing that I did was ~750 members of which 335 participated.

Region 2 & 3 leadership specifically notified all of their unit presidents about the survey and Region 3 leadership even encouraged their membership to participate.  What I'm getting at is that I'm not claiming we had a 50% response rate -- hell if you get 15% you're at the top of the world.

The bottom line is that had managers from the other 10 regions encouraged their memberships to participate, the numbers could have been so much higher.  With both pro (the motion rationales) and cons (survey offerings) there was nothing that would have swung that survey either way.  You can see it in the hit counts for the individual motions themselves, and in the wide variety of comments (from hard core for through hard core against) that this survey would have produced exactly what the majority felt.  With 10 regions not willing to share that information with all, you can pretty much determine what those folks think are worthwhile actions.

The trick is to get out from under them and that requires individuals that know better to move up those ranks. Either that, or...