Last month Barb challenged us to give our vision of Tri-Ess or CES or maybe both... and I have opted to do that.
First of all what I would like to see Tri-Ess be in the next two to three years if not sooner... and then we'll descend, as Dante did into the deeper circles of the Inferno.
I would like to see Tri-Ess become a responsive, responsible, and respected organization. Responsive? This nonsense of National not responding to points that Mary Alice and others have put forth for discussion has to end. Serious ideas put forth by members of the organization would receive a hearing, and not receive a closed door. As Carolyn Hax put it, "no meaningful relationship is ever destroyed by an open debate", yet that has been National's approach to ideas and concepts they don't want to hear.
I see Tri-Ess as a responsible organization—one that abided by the concepts and principles of the Oxley-Sarbanes Bill of 2002, a concept where executive directors are chosen by an elected board, not the other way around where the executive director appoints her board.
