From Darcie Henry
in your inboxes this AM.
I won’t read whatever nonsense this is, but hoping someone can just translate for us whatever new intentional misery this will be bringing to being employed here?
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Any chance there's someone willing to share the text of the email or web page that explains "market-based culture"? Some of us may not have access to that information.
More managers that manage their teams remotely who will set eagle eye over the performance reports and crack that whip yelling do more with less people was my take.
@c4 Maybe you are too young to remember this: Jack Welch principles were applied in the 1990's at AT&T. The core message there was to cut 10% of the work force every year.
- Critics argued that Jack's focus on shareholder returns, downsizing, and financial performance encouraged short-term thinking and excessive pressure on employees.
- Proves the point that no new and clever strategic ideas are being formulated at the top - just stolen from an old General Electric book (again).
We’re essentially talking about embedding market mechanisms into the organizational DNA—creating a self-correcting, high-performance ecosystem where incentives, resource allocation, workforce strategy, and strategic execution are continuously harmonized against external market realities. The objective is to institutionalize a culture of ownership, velocity, and value creation while maintaining sufficient organizational optionality to dynamically rebalance the enterprise portfolio in response to changing market conditions.
The fundamental thesis is to establish a market-calibrated operating model that creates a virtuous cycle between accountability, differentiation, and value realization, thereby enabling the organization to unlock latent productivity, optimize its human-capital portfolio, and sustainably compound competitive advantage.
Jack Welch is essentially the high priest of this market-driven, performance-obsessed corporate culture. Leadership admires him and wants emulate him.
You did not miss anything - she just asked Copilot to vomit out a bunch of buzzwords that Stankey would like. Not one measurable, meaningful policy point in the whole message. It is truly a clown show in Dallas.
Cookies and applesauce for everyone
The new market based culture is we don’t care anymore about the market, its base, or the culture.
In terms of “culture”, the market favors flexibility - ie hybrid or remote - yet we disregard that, which shows just how pointless this stuff is.
My understanding is that we will be monitored closely on our behavior by HR. The bar will be set higher and we must work faster to keep the [customers & leadership] happy. We must also train the TDP's to take our jobs. All with a smile. A more subjective way of evaluating performance - now though behavioral standards.
It means blanket layoffs for the worker grunts, while executives are immune to any repercussions or consequences of their poor decision making. And likely your existence will be more intentionally miserable. More commuting to work remotely for the plebes while executives can work from wherever they want, and commute on a private jet.