Emasculating Chief Marketing Officers Is Not A Good Thing

There seems to be a spate of examples of leadership failures and successes.  Having provided an example of bad leadership and one of good leadership, here is another example of bad leadership.  Thanks to Larry Bodine for this recent example in Larry Bodine's Legal Marketing Blog.  I left Larry a note--I would love to know which firm the story is about--we could start an over/under pool on how long the firm will survive before becoming merger fodder.  It continues to astound me that firms devote substantial resources to hiring top marketing officers and then do everything possible to emasculate them.  Michelle Golden kindly picked up on an earlier comment I had made and elaborated on it quite effectively in her Golden Practices.