Dolan used consulting firm to restructure basketball operations ?!?

Stats · Feb 19, 2014

http://nypost.com/2013/11/22/james-dolan-dishes-on-isiah-his-garden-teams/

MV: A few days before training camp you changed general managers; why do that so close to the start of camp? Did something change from the start of summer to the end?

JD: I didn’t time it, per se, like that. I’m surprised other folks were surprised about this. The general manager’s work doesn’t really occur at that time of year. If you’re going to change general managers that’s probably the right time to do it. The next available trade date is Dec. 15. You’ve just finished free agency and all that. It’s a lull period. The timing didn’t really have much to do with that. It was more about an initiative I have going on with both teams that I hired McKinsey & Company [a Manhattan-based global management consulting firm] for, because as I’ve gotten to look at both our organizations, it’s become apparent that we really need to reprocess both teams. We were using a lot of — not old, but “classic” methods and now with technology, and what’s available to a team to help improve, I didn’t think we were taking advantage of those things.
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Ex-Knicks GM Glen Grunwald

MV: So in evaluating these business solutions you came to the conclusion Glen Grunwald was lacking and Steve Mills a better fit?

JD: I hired McKinsey in the summer, and Glen is more of a “classic” GM, and he just wasn’t the guy to lead this initiative for the team, and it had to be someone in that position who could do it because I wasn’t going to do it. It needed someone behind it, someone who understood it, and that just wasn’t Glen’s forte. I think he was a good general manager, he’s got a great eye for talent, he knows basketball well, but the job description changed.
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Now I know why the Knicks suck. I used to work for one of these consulting firms. While consultants are excellent problem solvers and can help companies fix most business strategy problems, actual content or knowledge details are not their forte. This especially applies to sports.

I don't know what's worse, the fact that Dolan allowed McKinsey to reprocess his talent/basketball side of the business and change his GM's job description, or his blaming them for Glen Grunwald getting fired. Gotta be tough to be a Knicks fan.

Easy · Feb 19, 2014

You could pick a few CF posters as a consulting group and did a better job at rebuilding the Knicks. :grin:

Mr. Clutch · Feb 19, 2014

Consulting give management cover to do things they already wanted to do.

johnstarks · Feb 19, 2014

Lol. Now that the Maloofs are gone, Dolan must be the worst owner in the NBA. This guy is so clueless. This is what can happen when you are born into money and get to run stuff.

Voice of Aus · Feb 19, 2014

Easy said: ↑

You could pick a few CF posters as a consulting group and did a better job at rebuilding the Knicks. :grin:
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I want no part of that crappy job

Patience · Feb 20, 2014

"So Glen, uhhh, what would you say it is you actually DO here?"

Takeoff · Feb 20, 2014

lol all im picturing is don cheadle from house of lies selling dolan on the value of ray felton :grin:

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