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Jun 29, 2015
Former employee, more than 3 years
Boulder, CO
Recommend
CEO approval
Business Outlook
Pros
At one time NEON was staffed by many exceptional scientists and engineers, and enjoyed good positive leadership. The conceptual framework for developing NEON was groundbreaking for ecology, and the systems-engineering application to ecological science unprecedented.
Cons
But concepts and application of time-tested approaches would never be sufficient given the many challenges faced by NEON. Chief among these are exceptionally poor leadership - without vision, without compass, without any sensibility for how to build the facility and employ it for the greater good on behalf of the NSF. Leadership since 2012 has been incompetent at best, dismissive of real challenges on average, and catastrophically destructive on occasion.