By Rudi Webster
During the last decade or so, the West Indies Cricket Board (WICB) repeatedly dismissed the findings of the Lucky, Patterson, Wilkin and CARICOM reports, and contemptuously rejected their recommendations to restructure the Board, reform its systems and processes, and improve the quality of its leadership.
If self-interest or self-preservation is not the real cause of the Board’s defiant attitude and behaviour, one can only assume that its members do not yet understand the significance of organizational structure and structural reform, or the importance of the fundamental principles of development, improvement planning, and successful performance. The German philosopher Johann Goethe could well have been thinking about members of the WICB when he said that people only listen to, or act upon, that which they understand.
As soon as a new board takes over, it should create an innovative and powerful vision for West Indies cricket that takes into account the legitimate interests of all of its stakeholders, particularly the interests of its
