The Baltimore Orioles are "the most
dysfunctional organization in baseball," at least in the well-informed
opinion of The Boston Globe's Nick Cafardo. He wrote last week that, “You won’t
get many varying responses when you ask people in high places around baseball.
The Orioles’ problem is team ownership, and perhaps it always has been during
the Angelos family’s run.
Yes, indeed, the fish still rots from the
head down. The person at the top of the organization still matters most,
despite all the fuss in recent years about distributed leadership, shared
leadership and complexity leadership. No matter what else we wish to believe,
the boss still has the singular capacity to build and sustain greatness or send
an organization to its doom and, with it, the lives and careers of some very
good people.
