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	<title>Comments on: Where You Can Validly Criticize Mark Shapiro: Diversity</title>
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		<title>By: Kongos</title>
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		<pubDate>Mon, 28 Mar 2016 05:03:19 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[You&#039;re assuming that Rogers conducted an effective candidate search, which seems extremely unlikely. Remember just how effective they were last year, when their strategy was basically to cluelessly ask around, and they ended up effectively tampering with the Orioles (having earlier done so with the White Sox). 

The Rogers process was clearly flawed (despite your kind words, Shapiro&#039;s terrible job performance to date basically reflects on Rogers&#039; incompetence). 

Shapiro&#039;s hiring strategy has basically been to hire his cronies. Not only Atkins, but also Eric Wedge.  There&#039;s no real search for new talent or new ideas. It is typical of his approach to running the Jays: no research, no imagination, no real signs of intelligence. Just a no-talent bean-counter.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>You&#8217;re assuming that Rogers conducted an effective candidate search, which seems extremely unlikely. Remember just how effective they were last year, when their strategy was basically to cluelessly ask around, and they ended up effectively tampering with the Orioles (having earlier done so with the White Sox). </p>
<p>The Rogers process was clearly flawed (despite your kind words, Shapiro&#8217;s terrible job performance to date basically reflects on Rogers&#8217; incompetence). </p>
<p>Shapiro&#8217;s hiring strategy has basically been to hire his cronies. Not only Atkins, but also Eric Wedge.  There&#8217;s no real search for new talent or new ideas. It is typical of his approach to running the Jays: no research, no imagination, no real signs of intelligence. Just a no-talent bean-counter.</p>
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		<title>By: Gary W</title>
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		<dc:creator><![CDATA[Gary W]]></dc:creator>
		<pubDate>Wed, 23 Mar 2016 18:05:48 +0000</pubDate>
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		<description><![CDATA[Rogers hired Shapiro in part because they felt he was the most-qualified person to &quot;determine what makes a good executive&quot;. This article sure seems to undervalue the benefits of knowing a multi-million dollar hire brings with it (or at the very least, increasing the likelihood of bringing with it) a positive, harmonious, productive in-office track record to that effect. I&#039;m all for diversity, but expecting someone in Shapiro&#039;s spot--with pressure to perform--to disregard those benefits without a structure in place that requires as much strikes me as naive.]]></description>
		<content:encoded><![CDATA[<p>Rogers hired Shapiro in part because they felt he was the most-qualified person to &#8220;determine what makes a good executive&#8221;. This article sure seems to undervalue the benefits of knowing a multi-million dollar hire brings with it (or at the very least, increasing the likelihood of bringing with it) a positive, harmonious, productive in-office track record to that effect. I&#8217;m all for diversity, but expecting someone in Shapiro&#8217;s spot&#8211;with pressure to perform&#8211;to disregard those benefits without a structure in place that requires as much strikes me as naive.</p>
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