#leadership

TLDR: It’s not one problem. It’s a broken culture, recycled leadership, slow everything, and no real accountability. Nothing changes until the people at the top do.

It’s the culture. It’s the nepotism. It’s the same insular leadership group playing musical chairs and calling it progress. Your reward for poor performance is getting moved to run another department.

It’s the fact that half the people on campus on any given day are contractors. It’s hard to build anything real when so much of the workforce is temporary and disconnected.

It’s us still working like it’s 2006 while most of corporate America is in 2026. Outdated systems, outdated processes, and no urgency to fix them. Ten year “transformations” that take one year at any competent company.

It’s the consultants who latch on and never leave. Endless decks, endless frameworks, no real accountability. Just more layers between the problem and anyone willing to actually solve it.

It’s a tech org that still acts surprised that global talent exists. It’s marketing that talks about the consumer like it only fits into narrow boxes instead of understanding how broad the audience actually is.

Too many people with “creative” in their title, not enough actual creative thinking. Safe ideas, recycled ideas, nothing that really pushes.

And all these posts about going back to some golden age miss the point. Those same problems existed back then. People just didn’t care as much because the company was winning and everyone had a job. The s-xism, the favoritism, all of it was there. It just got ignored. Then the company tried to correct course with DEI but a lot of that turned into people taking care of their own under a different label. Still no one said anything. Not really. Not until layoffs started hitting.

There is no course correcting this with the same people making the same decisions. It needs new leadership and a genuinely fresh perspective. That’s not impossible. Look at Abercrombie, Gap, Levi’s. Even Adidas managed to steady itself after the Kanye mess in a couple of years.

Culture starts at the top. Always has.

Classic Drum "We know we have been doing badly in pre sales. Strange he kept on saying we are doing good. Finally admits losing customers to other clients, re org of the GIS Sales team.

Looks like his on his way out this his last chance. Dave K has been made the new Sales leader, eventually primed to take over Drums job.

RYAM held a company wide meeting on Wednesday April 15th titled “RYAM Uplift” with goal of uplifting employees hearts and minds. The meeting quickly jumped off the rails when it was clear that leadership had no plans on actually taking questions via the provided Slido app. Employees grew concerned over the poor leadership under former CEO DeLyle Bloomquist who was outwardly hostile to employees on numerous occasions. Questions around the third in a string of fires at RYAM largest facility in Jesup, GA was a hot topic as it impacted spending coming out of their annual outage. Overall sentiment among employees is that leadership is out of touch with employees at the plant levels.

Nike stock up 40 cents today. Adidas stock up over 3 dollars today.
Every leader should be embarrassed as they take months to fumble another layoff execution.
Fing ridiculous…..
Tech is a joke.
3soles not cutting it….

Infecting healthy people, meaning more people will have to ask for PTO to recover and less and less people will be available to do the job. Well done corporate! Going back to square 1. Great leadership, very smart!

Could Elcio have been more of a condescending a-s? I am just so done with him, he doesn’t listen. He is completely tone deaf. Anyone else?

Never seen an entire organization all check out at the same time in my career like this. Nobody has confidence in leadership and I would estimate over 80% of people are looking for new jobs. Even new hires are skeptical, turn over the leadership team before it’s too late.

Does anyone know what CL chiefs are? Is it the pinnacle of the technical ladder?

Given all the cuts, do we really need two chief network officers (wireless and wireline)?

Seems like they created a job for someone who was complaining. Just saying.

What are your thoughts ?

The situation at Verizon perfectly encapsulates a bitter reality of the corporate ecosystem: when leadership miscalculates, the workforce absorbs the shock.

The executives who championed the failed pricing strategies of the past are rarely the ones standing in the unemployment line. Instead, the everyday workers pay the price for those executive missteps so that the institutional investors can recoup their money.

​Schulman’s strategy may very well succeed in bouncing Verizon's stock price back to a respectable valuation. The math might start working again.

But what the brand truly stands for when its financial resurrection requires the systematic dismantling of its own culture and the displacement of the very people who trusted the company with their careers.

It is a financial victory achieved through a human loss.

Why are there so many new Vice President's, we can layoff 1000 employees to hire more and more VPs at 200k a pop.

He’s gonna shake it like bry noem

https://www.coworker.org/petitions/sign-on-1

Not sure if anyone else has seen the petition

Does anybody actually believe Shobhit found another role outside of citi and decided to leave on his own? Dude has only been at Citi for 8 months and was supposed to revolutionize AI at the bank with those amazing IBM insights (as if IBM knows anything about AI).

William Traylor head of 5G Ecosystems?

Got the email today, looks like 40 ish prone across business development and advisor practice growth etc.

What the he-l is going on? Some leaders who I know and I like. If we are trying to grow the wealth management business, this seems short sighted.

I joined a while back from a competitor to escape their layoffs and now it’s happening here. Seems pretty dispassionate.

Maybe the era of doing nothing and raking in massive bonuses is finally winding down. The only problem is, where do you find executives who actually understand how to run a business properly?

Leadership is clearly on an attrition drive, and making people quit on their own has been a main goal of RTO from the very beginning.

Even though I left ford in July 2022, I still want to post this. I never told anyone this story.

Doug field once told me and my team “We move as a snail and bring no innovation” though consistently our team was top performing team.

Because of constant badgering my manager quit then my supervisor and then my entire team along with me.

We all went to different companies and many are in leadership positions at suppliers and OEMs now.

When my Manager & team was leaving he said “Good Riddance” despite the team had filed 52 patents in past three years.

He constantly undermined “Ford way” and tried to rope us in with a mentality of “Tesla” or “Apple” or “whatever”.

After four years he was shown the door when he achieved nothing but lost $20B in EV “innovation”. Because of him good ford Engineers left or were forced out.

If any Ford management is reading, I want to tell you that you should consider what you lost and earned by bringing someone who never valued you or your business but in the process you let loyal and innovative people go.

I have no regrets leaving the company but I felt bad for many folks who I were left to take orders from someone who did not value them.

2021: Collected three months pay
2022: Collected 12 months pay
2023: Collected 12 months pay
2024: Collected 12 months pay
2025: Collected 12 months pay
2026: Collected five months pay, and got fired with a press release saying he was leaving on his own volition.

He’s pretty darn proud of his accomplishments.

In my time with the firm, there’s been a real shift in leadership in my organization.

The current group of MDs doesn’t have the same tenure or approach, and the environment shows it. The previous group wasn’t perfect, but there was a baseline level of professionalism and respect.

With this leadership team, a lot is visible about how they operate, and it’s not what you’d expect from people in those roles. It’s hard to take them seriously or have much respect for them, whether they realize it or care.

The current team of MDs has no accountability for unacceptable behavior, yet they decide everyone else’s future while not being held to the same standard.

Everyone sees it, but posts like this may be the only form of accountability for those at the top

In my opinion, VoA is a circus. If BD really wanted honest feedback, this platform has more than what needed for diagnosis of the issues. Do you expect anything to change with that survey or is it just to warm some “leader’s” pocket?

TGS leaders sing songs about the need to to drive technology in support of the business but in reality all that they do is working in their individual interest and making sure they milk the company as much as they can. All of this is just empty words because the moment you try to push things forward it'll get squashed because change disrupts the status quo which was carefully built to work for the folks who built it. What a horrendous way to lead.

Lots of people speculating that Lead positions will be almost non-existent and Managers will have huge teams. Any substantial information there?

I just started at a company in Northern Virginia this week. My officemate was let go today. When I asked about stability of the Cmpany he said they recently went through a restructure and some leadership was let go; he expects another round of cuts among lower‑level managers. He also mentioned springtime layoffs have been a recurring pattern over the past two years, so it’s unclear how widespread this will be.

Headline is accurate - our CEO is "celebrating" the demise of thousands of employees. Save us the lies of how "difficult" these layoffs are for leadership, and how "thoughtful" the company is in its approach. Why are we all still here working for this type of person?

Taking Million$ while delivering nothing. Best seller coming to a E- bookstore near you.

Why do we not benchmark against companies out executives actually leave to go work for? I haven’t seen many leave for Ford, GM, Verizon, AT&T, Johnson & Johnson, Boeing, RTC Corp, Proctor & Gamble, IBm, Pfizer, or GE Aerospace. Chevron is the only one that makes any sense. Why not BP, Woodside, Hess, etc which are companies I know executives have left ExxonMobil for.

I really like the man but I do not think having our executives swearing in employee forums is classy. I actually find it offensive. On a construction site fine but I expect more from our executives.

Newly appointed Dan has a meeting in November in which he said “AI, AI, AI , coffee” and said he’d be announcing his plan in a future meeting. Other than AI and 15,000 layoffs, what is his plan? Can anyone articulate it? Not being facetious, would really like to know.

The unehtical McKinsey folks ...our CEOs former employer, ready to fu-k us all over. Get ready folks, this is how far we've fallen from the most "ethical" company. https://youtu.be/K1cJqB0X_BA?si=V1X6W1X7DWt6vvwn

Once this was a company employees would be proud of working for but now it’s just a shadow of its former self.
We career from one RIF to the next whilst being told by disingenuous leaders that AI will take care of everything.
Work from the office, no work from home as you won’t have an office. Use google, no Microsoft…no Google etc etc.
There is a total lack of honesty or transparency from leaders. They are all running scared and frantically trying to get on the “relevance” lifeboat. Forget “women and children first”…these guys are cowards only interested in covering their own backs and surviving.
No strategy, no communication, just chaos.

Multiple members of Belk’s top brass are quietly and quickly planning an exit strategy from the company. Some choosing to stay in the retail industry, while others choosing the leave the industry altogether. Retirement is a viable option for some. Know that business model of belk is antiquated and unsustainable.

Is it true?

What did you think of Dan’s interview at Semafor today?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xr5S4xpK2R4

Interview starts at 3:43 mark

The modern Ford Motor Co. has emerged, CEO Jim Farley said Wednesday as the company detailed some restructuring and said it will refresh 80% of its North American vehicle volume by 2029 as a part of its efforts to compete against new competitors like Chinese brands.

Former Apple Inc. executive Doug Field, Ford's chief EV, digital and design officer, will depart over the next month as Ford prepares to launch next year its new Universal Electric Vehicle platform.

Been seeing a lot of people bashing Corporates lately, and didn't want to miss out on the fun. I wonder what Corporates Customers and Partners would think of they knew every conversation with a sales rep is recorded, and searchable by anyone in the company.

No, I am not joking. Anyone at any time can search a database of 1000s of hours of meetings, and discover in real time which firm, whether it's KPMG, Deloitte, EY, or Accenture and find out who is working on a new opportunity with a potential or existing client. Taking it one step further, as a result of a simple search, anyone can find out who is involved and timing. There is no data privacy, and no controls on who can access information.

You can't make this stuff up. This is Corporates Leadership for you.

#KPMG #Deloitte" #EY #Accenture #Dataleak

https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/lawsuits-claim-at-ts-ceo-saw-the-relocation-mandate-as-a-way-to-replace-older-workers-with-younger-ones/ar-AA20YBUD?ocid=BingNewsSerp

Stankey should have a nice read while he’s taking his afternoon dump.