#leadership

Interestingly, I saw a posting from a pp executive recruiter for the following new roles. Sr Director Chief Risk Officer UK, Sr Director Head of EU Revenue Operations in Dublin, and Sr Director for, Head of EU Payment Operations and Strategy in Luxembourg. These are new roles which means new teams. How does this tie into layoffs and shrinking our workforce?

Leadership teams are plagued by the wrong people. They care only about personal ambition and looking busy, wrapping every failure as a "success." Business value and key metrics are not even taken into consideration, and decisions are rarely backed by data. It is a complete mess that needs to be cleaned up as soon as possible or it all goes to he-l.

The problem, however, is that those who have the power to change things are exactly the same: corrupt and compromised.

The Strategy. What is Cengage and what do we do? One voice one approach. and this guy JE he is so full of himself after 53 weeks being employed.

JE - Biggest challenges - how do we show up? Challenges what do we have in common what is our purpose. blah blah blah.... damn he talks so fast its like he's just trying to get through this stupid call.

A lot of stuttering and uh mm uh umm on the conference call. Didn't hear a clear plan. Will give him another quarter as understand he is knew.

Organizations succeed when decisions are timely, priorities are clear, and the people doing the work have the resources and authority to deliver.

Too many layers of approval can slow progress. As problems move up the chain, critical information can get delayed or diluted. Management decisions made without a clear understanding of the actual technical work, actual workload, and operational challenges can create unrealistic commitments.

Frequent reorganizations and unclear ownership add overhead instead of solving problems.

L3Harris has publicly emphasized urgency, delivery, and meeting customer demand in its 2026 business outlook. Achieving those goals requires aligning commitments with available resources, addressing risks early, and listening to the people closest to the work.

In defense contracting, oversight, quality, and compliance are essential. But excessive risk aversion can be just as costly as taking unnecessary risks. When decisions take too long and opportunities are delayed, we risk losing business to competitors who can respond faster.

When approvals multiply, priorities conflict, and accountability isn't matched with authority, the organization becomes less effective—not more controlled.

Good management isn't about adding layers of oversight. It's about removing obstacles, making informed decisions, establishing clear priorities, and empowering people to deliver.

Ultimately, this is basic business: give people the direction, resources, and authority they need to meet the mission.

Good move to elevate BC to head of wealth even if inform not sure the decisions of having JD be co! Guess they forgot he learned from JT and BD before him.

Other moves interesting but ML is serious about change and moving towards something new.

Any thoughts? Lots of me OC members!

The longer these layoffs drag on, the more talented people are leaving on their own terms for better jobs in better cities. Is that really what leadership wants?

We get what we deserve in failed leadership

https://www.citybiz.co/article/919766/wells-fargo-names-cayetano-gea-carrasco-head-of-ai-and-data-for-consumer-banking/

When Danny boy took over in October 2025, stock price was $43.67....today it is $44.40. WooHoo....73 cent gain. How much is he getting paid? 🤣🤣

After many years of loving my job at Cigna I decided to retire this spring after seeing signs of no new projects, managers caring less and less and everyone living under the constant threat of being laid off. I still care about all my ex colleagues and friends and I wonder what the end game is here, is it to totally make all Cigna managers non local ( indian) and try anf replace the experienced workforce with HIH employees ? It will fail. Its already failing. 2026 had hardly any new projects and it sounds like 2027 will be the same. May the force be with you all and F HIH.

SpaceX has lost 9 billion dollars in the last year and a half. Dragged down by its disappointing Starlink division. Keep believing the shills who are out in force pumping up the stock though. They’ve lost 35 percent of their share value in that time span. Elon and Starlink arent taking over anything except the bots on this layoff forum. (Hopefully I got enough key words in this to trigger the bot responses)

Unless you’re a math nerd or EVP unless you sit in Minnesota, Charlotte, Arizona or Ohio you’re not welcome in her organization if you sit in any other hub. Said it on her ask me anything call today. I’m guessing this affects hundreds if not thousands.

I have to admit, I'm really enjoying watching Oracle go down the drain. Don't get me wrong, I feel sorry for the employees who are still there. But as for this parasitic corporation and the leadership itself?...

Bring the pain! More popcorn! 🍿

Who finds it utterly ironic that GF is riding trumps coattails. It wasn't two long ago the CLO was on stage actively mocking trump and filling a room of directors an above with the worst uncomfortable vibe. Regardless of the announcement. The same terrible leadership culture persists. Ripe for union activity which is likely afoot. The stock price does not lie.

It will be funny and sarcastic to see how many more H1B indians is IBM Consulting able to bring in. There were about 1,200 already in 2024. Indian Sub CIOs just bringing indians like a swarm. Stupid decisions.

If BNY really believed its own cost‑cutting gospel, the Executive Committee would be the next “efficiency lever.” Consider that a U.S. senior executive package easily runs $3–6M+ when you add salary, bonus, equity, benefits, and perks. An equivalent leadership role in Pune or Wroclaw costs a fraction — often 70–85% cheaper when you factor in compensation norms and lower fully‑loaded costs. If BNY is happy offshoring engineers, ops, QA, onboarding, and client service, why stop at the people making the decisions???

Would Wall Street cheer? Absolutely. Cutting a few million in executive comp barely moves expenses, but it sends a loud message: “We’re serious about margins.” And BNY’s stock already jumps when they squeeze labor — imagine the reaction if they squeezed their own.

Will it happen? Almost zero chance. Afterall, offshoring is for everyone else and of course not for those who go on African Safari trips. :0 The cost savings are real, but the appetite for self‑accountability at the top is nonexistent.

Now would be the time to release some positive news as we build up into earnings. If earnings will be good then it benefits the company to release some positive news. Are we sure Enrique knows what he’s doing? I don’t want the usually fail from him and Jaime Miller each quarter.

The workplace has become more political, with little room for employee ideas and almost no accountability. No wonder good people are looking for the exit as fast as they can. Who in their right mind wants to stay in this environment? I had high hopes when Hans was replaced by Dan. Those hopes are gone now.

Comcast Donated $7.5 Million for Donald Trump’s Lavish New White House Ballroom

https://variety.com/2026/tv/news/comcast-funding-trump-white-house-ballroom-1236913205/

months long planning leading to this **show with no change in some areas and changes in areas that dont make sense. favorites got favored. petty politics in full swing. clueless leaders-no understanding on what will happen next. we wait for round 2?!

While yes it is true that no one individual can make any real impact to a behemoth corporation with a single comment on some public social media platform or an official registered complaint to EEOC, SEC, DOJ, Attorney General, Congressional persons, and contact employer attorney to file lawsuit for discrimination.

BUT let me share a metaphor with you that hopefully will bolster and inspire movement and momentum.

Metaphor:
A new homeowner when purchasing their first home, may see a single parch of crab grass begin to grow in what otherwise is a beautiful green lawn. So, they ignore it, because what is one single patch of crab grass, after all. Then a couple days later, the homeowner sees a couple dozen patches of crab grass beginning to grow. Still not a big deal. Then, one morning the homeowner arises with their nice cup of coffee and newspaper and looks out the window. Lo and behold, the yard has been utterly taken over by crab grass and choked any remaining green grass. The new homeowner is put in a position to either invest in so much poison to destroy the crab grass while at the same time risking destroying the green grass as well OR doing a complete lawn renovation by completing removing all existing grass and completely reseeding the lawn anew.

Point Being:
By ourselves it can feel daunting and pointless to seek to take any action against these behemoth corrupt corporations. And that is true; by ourselves it is a fool’s errand. However, our efforts when compounded with the single efforts of others WILL truly make a difference. It will! You just have to believe and I suggest that as you take actionable steps, you pray to one that can bless efforts.

I hope this encourages not just a few people but many people. Your efforts are not in vain. The pride, arrogance, and hubris in the hearts of executives over these corrupt behemoth corporations will be their downfall.

Reading this forum makes my mind think I have the answer, but let me ask anyway. an SVP role in BNY NY os Yay or Nay? I haven't seen too many SVP roles advertised...Have seen VP's and some Dir's but SVP seems to be a rare stock? Hire and fire? Pip quota candidate? Individual contributor - work but no authority? Expected salary range - peantus or otherwise? TIA

Comcast is more the Roberts family business than any of you all realize. Brian holds one third of the all voting power. This company's direction is based solely on his whims.

Buying Sky was Brian's idea. Top 5 worst corporate acquisition of all time.

Sky became a bad acquisition because Brian let a personal vendetta against Disney jade his judgement. He got into a pi----g contest and drove up what Disney paid for Fox's assets by nearly $20 billion. That back fired because Disney did the same to him when he decided to buy Sky and he ended up paying double what it was worth. This crippled the rest of Comcast where it was unable to grow the company dure to the weight of more than $100 billion in debt.

This all dates back to another one of Brian's ideas the failed attempted a hostile take over of Disney 22 years ago. Disney is still pi---d about this and so is Brian.

Brian also decided to buy Time Warner. Another glorious disaster. Remember all the people layed off when that collapsed?

Buying NBC was also Brian's idea, not a terrible acquisition in the short term but ultimately a poor decision.

Brian realized a decade too late that TV is dead and his family business is failing because of it.

I’m a very optimistic person. Even amid all the chaos, I remained hopeful that Verizon would finally start moving in the right direction. It’s been a year since Dan joined, yet we still seem dysfunctional, with no clear direction or alignment, and we’re still waiting for leadership to tell us what comes next.
Only thing that keeps coming back is “layoffs”.

I have worked at Cigna for 10 years and can say the leaders are inept and ruthless. Toxic and stressful environment. Do more, get less. No appreciation and threats of layoffs. Best of luck to anyone impacted today.

You've had 19 years of Stephenson & Stankey.

You have made the shareholders of T- Mobile rich.
You have made the shareholders of DTV rich - Stankey ran it into the ground.
You have made the shareholders of Time Warner rich - Stankey ran it into the ground.
You sank $10B into AT&T Mexico - Stankey sold it for $2B.

Stephenson's first day as AT&T's CEO your stock price was $37.63/share. And today?

You hire a dud as CEO. Sooner the Board admits this the sooner they can move on with actually hiring someone that can run this company. In the meantime, enjoy watching your company bleed value daily causing more and more necessary layoffs. Id--ts.

When will leadership start cleaning house - I see multiple people with only one projects and continue to whine and compain about not having time. While other high performing people are a part of many, many projects and hitting it out of the park. This one specific person has been on two failed projects (relating to ERP) and wasted millions of dollars but is still here. What is he doing and how is he still here.

Playing devil's advocate, are the managers and below the problem and not the leadership?

Posted on the MPC site, but it certainly applies here

Started to think about our executive leadership team’s compensation, especially our CEO’s, while sitting at my desk eating lunch today. MPC stock is over $470 per share!

My first inclination is that it is due to superior capital allocation, fiscal responsibility and smart creative acquisitions. Then I realized it is more likely due to large stock buybacks, Trump’s illegal war with Iran, Trump’s inability to end the Russia-Ukraine war the first day he was in office as he bragged he would do, and Wallstreet fund managers chasing the MPC momentum trade.

Since the latter reasons are most accurate, it leads me to conclude our executive leadership team’s outrageous compensation, driven by their incentive stock options, is mostly ill-gotten and unearned while lowly engineers like me make our facilities run smoothly day in and day out with little recognition.

Nonetheless life isn’t fair! We live in a time of morally bankrupt grift exhibited by our politicians, tech oligarchs, corporate leaders, and Wallstreet financiers. Remember to vote November 3rd

Acquiring Sky, a complete European company was the d-mbest move ever made by a US company. Europe is generally considered a laid back culture where people don’t hustle beyond work hours and extend their work and more priority is given to wlb, unlike US which is more capitalistic and squeezes the employees. Whoever suggested and approved the Sky acquisition should be blamed for where the company stands now.

Fox may have been a better acquisition, but Disney thwarted it. 40 Billion dollars spent for the acquisition and years of work integrating the systems which was just completed last year, but not one thought on whether the cultures would align between 2 geographically and politically different companies. Add to this the rise of AI and intense competition from FWA, fiber and satellite players - it’s as if Comcast has no leverage left on any front.

When I randomly open Linkedin...

All I see is notices from existing CDW coworkers in the States posting about either being let go or new coworkers posting "thanks" for being hired in India (no knock to those in India as that'll help cut costs to boost our stock price)...

But is leadership aware of the optics for existing customers? Might as well move Customer Relations & Support as well as Purchasing and all other backbone to India as well. Might as well go all the way at this point since they started this with AR/AP.

Not saying I want a bulk of US coworkers to be let go but leadership seems confused on sitting on the fence on what to do and to what extent.

Guess those highly paid consultants aren't worth the money if they are scared to fully go all the way with thier outsourcing and overseas worker strategy.

Also I noticed India coworkers are getting nice Apple notebooks when I'm still using my brick of an HP notebook that's seen better days as my fingers bang out sales on those plastic keys. Give me a Panasonic Toughbook 😂

RV has executed an aggressive labor overhaul, gambling that a mix of heavy offshoring, headcount reduction, and rapid AI automation can replace deep institutional knowledge without destabilizing operations. This approach has successfully optimized the short-term bottom line, but signs of friction raise the question: is this corporate strategy starting to fracture? Although this aggressive cost-restructuring has yielded spectacular short-term financial performance, industry observers are increasingly asking if this high-stakes gamble is sustainable.

Has anyone seen any actual numbers or anything that looks like legit data collection from this thing? All we have gotten so far is AI slop emails from a couple higher ups claiming participation is up (duh, you pretty much forced us to take it) and everyone is "happy with leadership". Are they just trying to gaslight everyone now with these things? There is absolutely no way in he-l the scores are better than where they were a year ago before layoffs, the fallout of said layoffs, and RTO mandates were in place. The scores last year were in the toilet too.

Do we have a peoples representative in India. We thought HR would help, but he is so isolated that we don't if he atleast the right person.

We see zero motivation from him, no office improvements, facilities are literally freezed. Cherry on top is we don't even have proper stationery available

What is his secret? Forget working smart not hard. This guy works in stupid ways and gets all of the rewards.

Its been over a year without a CMO.. plus there isnt much leadership in place.

I am not sure they are using this word correctly. To transform a company you would take it from bad to good. This is not happening

My last post was taken down, so I'll try to post this another way. I'm hearing a rumor that "MJ" is no longer with Ford. Can anyone confirm?