SEE eeee Oh!
I know that being the CEO of a company is demanding, difficult and rewarding. I was the CEO of two different hospitals.
This is what I learned first hand. You can hold an opinion, have many very good reasons to hold that view and some board member will disagree with you for their own very good reasons. There will be political struggle at the highest level to see things through.
You arrive in the position with political capital. You are the new kid in town, everybody loves you. Then as you make decisions you piss people off, and you lose political capital and finally after about five years, you have no political capital and the knives can come out.
In our OCTranspo case we have a CEO that seems to be a good fit, for all the right reasons but it would be foolish to think that there are no skeletons in the closet for the reasons I mention above. "There were no findings" is a very coy response to what we all know intuitively.
This is also why the average term of a CEO is about five years. It is also why they are the highest paid person in the organization they head. They have all the power and all the responsibility but they also have all the accountabiity.
Let Mr. Leary do his job they way he surely knows how to do it and hopefully he has learned a few things along the way.
Our patience is probaby a lot less than it might be at this late stage.
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