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The superstar skill Joel Klein most lacked: management | GothamSchools

The superstar skill Joel Klein most lacked: management | GothamSchools

The superstar skill Joel Klein most lacked: management

picture-4Why is Mayor Bloomberg so confident that Hearst executive Cathleen Black will make a great chancellor? Maybe because her “superstar” management skills are exactly what Joel Klein most desperately lacked.

In a new piece for Capital New York, our own Anna Phillips describes how Klein’s big ideas suffered from a “confused system of accountability” in his own staff. The confusion worsened after the departure of his longtime