Why IBM managers are so incompetent?
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@hp Albany
As I have stated before and seen at IBM, is that young managers in sales and technical sales are put in those positions not based on experience or accomplishments, but instead on someone sponsoring them who he or she rubbed noses with. It makes you sick to see how they fail when a better more experienced and accomplished person should have been promoted into management.
The good ones left IBM or stepped down out of management. Managers basically became grunts of the executives. They have to do what they are told or lose their job. It became a job of keeping positive visibility with executives and managing up in order to survive.
Because they are Incompetent Business Managers.
Ba-dum tsss
When I worked at IBM, my manager was a psychotic, an id--t, and a POS.
My team used to have amazing managers. Smart, former practitioners in our core expertise, and empathetic.
So of course, they all got laid off. Every single one.
What was left was the spineless and weak, Yes Men to the 9 degree like a burn to the soul, willing to sell their own mothers in s-x slavery to survive another day as an IBMer. Was it worth it you spineless basterds?
At ibm, managers are d-mber than a bag of hammers.
Bob has a new "good manager" skill. Problem solved.
If they aren't technical they are a waste of $$
@an same in other locations.
@ac In Albany, the environment is characterized by a combination of organizational politics and entrenched favoritism. Advancement and access to high-profile opportunities often appear to be influenced as much by internal political alignment and relationships as by individual merit or performance. The same individuals are repeatedly rewarded with promotions, leadership positions, and strategic assignments, and are frequently reassigned to new initiatives as existing projects lose momentum. This recurring pattern fosters the perception that career progression is driven by political capital and membership within a favored inner circle rather than by objective performance, technical expertise, or measurable contributions.
Peter Principle?
Managers are useless POS.