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[quote=Anonymous][quote=Anonymous]Been at two schools. One school has a small nomination committee - all friends and in the same social circle that keep a very tight control over who is in leadership roles at the school. They will throw in a token diverse person on a gala or event committee on occasion for appearances but then that person gets shut out and regrets doing it. [/quote]

This is a leadership dynamic that gets talked a lot about on DCUM and appears a lot of places. A friend group forms in some leadership organization (parent association, PTA, PTO, sports league board of directors, whatever). On some level they want more people involved because they are all overcommitted and doing too much. But on another level they like having just their friends around and they know they can trust each other to get a job done - mostly, or at least all the jobs they as a group value. They don't know if they will like or be able to trust some new person in a role. So they just don't let knew people in. Usually they do this while griping that no one volunteers. It happens over...and over...and over. I don't think the people who do it even see what they are doing.[/quote]

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