Leadership, Mob Mentality & Ron Wilson

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BY Geoff Smith

POSTED ON MARCH 4, 2012

I have long admired Brian Burke; Ron Wilson not so much – I’m more the players’ coach type. (I realize that I’ve just contradicted myself, Brian Burke is

I get advised all the time on the power of ‘consensus leadership’. There’s a strong belief that real change – unless you have a ‘consensus’ among the

What happened in Toronto went one step further. Certainly, a public consensus formed that Ron Wilson had to go, but when the crowd at the ACC started

You may say that they are the paying customer, frustrated by years of failure. I respond that no-one believes that a Stanley Cup team will be built by

I can neither see through Brian Burke’s eyes nor feel his pressure; I’ve never coached. I did not think Wilson’s contract should have been renewed, but when

Maybe it was the right decision. But arguably it was made for the wrong reasons and to me, certainly at the wrong moment. At the very least, it was a very

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