#leadership

Time to stop drinking the blue cool aid. Chevron would happily offshore or turn every job tomorrow an AI agent tomorrow if it would bump the stock price 1/2%. Our core competencies are Wall Street FOMO and slow following tech bros culture. Time to stop deluding ourselves that this company values or appreciates employees.

A Memory Book for Mark B? For employees to thank him for all he did at OpenText?? I didn’t think Sandy could get any more delusional or tone deaf, but here we are.

Especially those who returned from remote will be targeted as a punishment for being remote all these years.

I was laid off, and I regret that I worked so hard at my job. I had a good performance rating and never expected this outcome. I worked in fusion tech support, where I cared deeply about my customers and the quality of my work, even putting in time on weekends. I was okay with not receiving a raise in exchange for job stability, but that’s not the case anymore.

While no one owes you anything in life, I realize there is no point in doing more than what is necessary for this company. I’m glad I didn’t waste a decade on this! Aging tech, awfully management, no raise, you wont progress there. I was a foul to have stayed 4 years!!!!

I participated in a marriage counseling session with my spouse yesterday and will share with you some words of wisdom.
If you feel like you have tried everything reasonable to improve things but still feel like you are in a relationship that does not make you happy, then end the relationship and move on.
It is best to end it amicably.
A lot of you here are convinced that you are in a poisonous environment. You also believe that the leaders are to blame.
Just like your spouse, the leaders will be staying, so you can choose to stay in a place that makes you miserable, or be strong and move on.
P.S. Even in marriage, it helps both parties when the relationship ends. At first the other spouse might be sad or think they will miss you but will learn quickly that they were with a toxic partner.

The CEO and executives should take a temporary pay cut. No more excuses.

Wonder when changes will happen given most entities have had some form of restructuring already

Uniti Group (UNIT) – Annual Total Returns

Uniti investors have high hopes there will be multiple rabbits pulled out of several hats and very soon.

new Windstream job site
https://jobs.dayforcehcm.com/en-US/mydayforce/alljobs

Many of the impacted employees are rehired as contractors and silently offering them to full-time.
Many teams have no projects no work they were enjoying the paychecks with no revenue coming from those teams. Heavy favoritism and lobbying going on which teams to retain and teams to be notified to retire. No place for High performers. Junk and people who dont know basics are driving projects they will eventually fail

The most inefficient survey. Not sure why everything is open ended… how are you supposed to collect quantitative data that way to measure against a benchmark or standard? Why do we get surveyed so often with little to no change being made in between? AND THE KICKER IS…. Leadership will comment back but won’t actually address any improvements or action in person!!!!!!! It’s all for show. This place is a joke

Any gossips around PEC India visit, I heard lot of Senior Leaders are traveling to India.

Good article in the Wall Street Journal today: “The CEO Who Wants to Double the Size of His Bank to $1 Trillion.” As I read the article and the quotes from PNC CEO Demchak it became more telling how bad leadership at USB really is. He lays out more vision in a newspaper article than anyone at USB can lay out in 10 town halls. Imagine working at a bank led by a banker, one who grew up at JPM under Jamie Dimon, versus USB led by former McKinsey consultants and spreadsheets.

Jane is giving speeches /interviews on greener grass for M&A deals that is yet to come and stock price is ticking up. Is this some sort of a scheme to get price up, exercise option and then exit the bank?

https://contracts.justia.com/companies/ford-539/contract/135419/

Theres a hunt out for him, if anyone has seen him possibly at his sports franchise or any other place please let DXC know as his currently lost.

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Ericsson in crisis: CEO fired, suspicions of corruption
August 1, 2016 - by News Desk - Leave a Comment
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Ericsson (the Swedish world leader in communications technology and services) is in a leadership crisis and being investigated on corruption. The corporation also announced that large lay-offs are imminent.

With mounting pressure on Ericsson its Board of Directors announced on 25 July 2016, in the middle of the Swedish vacation break, that its President and CEO Hans Vestberg was stepping down with immediate effect. Jan Frykhammar, Executive Vice President and CFO, will assume the CEO position until a new CEO is in office.

Hi y’all. An 8 minute, highly edited clip from the disastrous one hour webcast is now available.
No mention of Yugo.
No mention of Applesauce.
No jokes from HR lady.
No mention of work-life balance.
Highly edited to look more professional

"I wrote The Dilbert Principle around the concept that in many cases the least competent, least smart people are promoted, simply because they’re the ones you don't want doing actual work. You want them ordering the doughnuts and yelling at people for not doing their assignments—you know, the easy work. Your heart surgeons and your computer programmers—your smart people—aren't in management. That principle was literally happening everywhere."

~30min. of AK touting quantum. Rather than starting at the beginning of the video, just start here at 17:55 "Competing for top AI talent".

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=7SY4Ttpoldc

Sep 11, 2025
After spending much of the 2010s in the doldrums, IBM has made something of a comeback in the past five years under the leadership of CEO Arvind Krishna. That's thanks to a lot of the success in its hybrid cloud business, as well as its consulting services. All of this has led to a surge in the company's share price. Now, IBM is betting that quantum computing will be the next big thing. But will Big Blue succeed against rivals like Microsoft and Google who are racing to make their own quantum breakthroughs? And how is the company learning from its past mistakes with Watson AI? Arvind Krishna speaks to WSJ’s Christopher Mims and Tim Higgins on the latest episode of the Bold Names podcast.

So many people are already leaving voluntarily, yet they keep talking about cuts. It’s like they don’t see the bigger picture and are just determined to make things worse. The morale has been terrible for a while, and it doesn't help that the company is punishing the people who stayed instead of fixing the issues.

Dave Calhoun will put Ford up on blocks for ever. Just like he did at Boeing.

Ford has issued another recall.

The Michigan carmaker recalled 1.9 million vehicles because rear-view cameras could display inverted, distorted, or blank images, according to a September 4 filing with the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration. The recall covers various models from 2015 through 2019, including the Lincoln MKC, Lincoln Navigator, Mustang, F-450, F-550, Expedition, and Edge.

The recall includes about 1.45 million vehicles in the United States, 122,000 in Canada, and around 300,000 in other markets, Reuters reported. In April, Ford recalled 160,000 vehicles from 2015 for rear-view camera failures.

Here is the full list of affected models:

F-450 SD - 2015-2019

Transit Connect - 2015-2018

Lincoln MKC - 2015-2019

F-550 SD - 2016-2019

Transit - 2016-2019

F-350 SD - 2015-2019

Econoline -2017-2019

Lincoln Navigator - 2015-2017

Expedition - 2015-2017

F-250 SD - 2015-2019

Mustang - 2015-2019

Edge - 2015-2018

Ranger - 2019

The measure comes after a recent wave of recalls . In August, Ford recalled nearly 500,000 vehicles for possible brake fluid leaks, more than 355,000 trucks for an instrument panel display issue, more than 213,000 vehicles for faulty tail lights, and 100,900 vehicles for risk of an airbag tear. In July, Ford recalled more than 850,000 cars in the U.S. because of a potential fuel pump failure, AP reported.

In November, Ford received a $165 million penalty after an NHTSA investigation found the company failed to recall vehicles with defective rearview cameras in a timely manner, Reuters reported.

Girls night! Did ya get the email? Divvy's out! Pretty sudden, too. This on top of all the shuffling of other top brass. Lisa had the right idea. Vivian may have gone willingly, but was likely a witty casualty.

Can't say I blame them, I wish all the best. I'll be thrilled to be the next rat fleeing this sinking ship.

WHO's NEXT?!?

Everything really clicked for me this week watching Safra and other tech CEOs line up at the White House dinner, kissing the DJT ring. They’re thanking him profusely for flipping the script. The era of employees holding the power? Over.

When’s the last time you heard an Oracle leader talk about wellbeing, mental health, or diversity? The buzz words of the last 5 years. Those conversations have all but disappeared. The employer’s market is back — and with it, the return of treating employees as expendable.

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/11/microsoft-ceo-nadella-says-company-must-rebuild-trust-with-employees.html

Microsoft CEO Satya Nadella told employees in a Thursday online meeting that the company has work to do to smooth relations with employees.

Nadella was responding to concerns that have been raised following several rounds of layoffs and demands for a partial return to in-person work.

“I think we can do better, and we will do better,” Nadella said.

‘We will do better.’ Microsoft CEO Nadella admits company has to rebuild trust with employees

https://www.cnbc.com/2025/09/11/microsoft-ceo-nadella-says-company-must-rebuild-trust-with-employees.html

If only the revolving door of CEO's and senior executives of Dixie had little forethought and understanding of where the industry was going!

Look at the Oracle results and Ellison's strategy - they built DC's anticipating the AI demand. Here we sold all the DC's and ripped them off from our asset list.

They never had strategy other than paying themselves off, by selling what was left!

Why are they so bad? They don’t know what they are doing, schedule too many useless calls, and don’t know how to actual lead or manage a team.

I want to be positive and optimistic (not a good trait on this website) about the changes and the move to the sport offence, but come on! Did you see that org chart? (Just go to the support documents in Workday) Over a hundred VPs in the first level (which should make the total about 300+ since most have VPs reporting to them), and every single sport is a whole org now. EH mention he has flattened the org because he has ~15 reports now, but what about the rest? I’m gonna just blame on my own stupidity for not understanding how this is progress.

Five year return for TFC is just over 18%. Compare that to JPM at over 202%. I realize we are not exactly comparing apples and apples but at this sort of return for Truist why hasn’t the Board of Directors got rid of Billy Boy. ?

This is the performance of PEP's management: PEP YTD return of (- 2%) SP500 is +12%, PEP 1-Year Return of (-15%) SP500 is +18% , PEP 3-Year Return of (-8%) SP500 is 62% !!!! Gross incompetence doesn't even begin to describe this. They have absolutely no clue what they are doing. Their only strategy has been "we hope nobody notices". Elliott Management can't get here fast enough.

Yawn 🥱

Thoughts? Needed to go external again. Not enough capable assets internally? Whats the direction of ET?

Can someone tell me how the he-l we keep going through re-org after re-org, yet somehow the absolute worst fu--ing leaders are the ones who survive every single time? It’s like the less you give a damn about the brand, the company, or your team, and the more you’re a selfish, toxic a--hole, the higher your chances of keeping your job. Actual competence? Doesn’t matter one bit.

We’ve got senior directors and VPs who should’ve been booted years ago, and everyone who works under them knows it. So what’s the deal? What’s the bullsh-t mechanism for deciding who stays and who goes at that level? And seriously, why the fu-k can’t we ever manage to promote the people who actually deserve it?

Zortman, Fargo...clowns. couldn't swallow their pride that they selected Wayne and extended his contract. Then, to cover it up, Wayne lies that it was his choice to leave. Until you clear out the incompetence in the BoD, you'll keep getting subpar CEO selections. I wouldn't trust the remaining EC to run my 10 yr old's lemonade stand.

The layoff list was reportedly prepared starting in June and July, and it is now being referred to as "P25 Version 2." What’s concerning is that many positions in North America are being eliminated and shifted to lower-cost countries. This raises a critical question: what are employees in North America supposed to do? This feels like regional discrimination, and there's a complete lack of transparency in how these decisions are made. Previously, employees had the option to ask anonymous questions during all-hands meetings, but that feature has now been restricted. It’s hard not to wonder if there’s a hidden agenda behind these changes. Transparency and open communication are essential leaders should be willing to face tough questions without fear.
Moreover, has there ever been a consideration to reduce executive salaries many of which are quite substantial as a cost-saving measure? Even a partial reduction could potentially help avoid job cuts and reduce the overall operating cost. Doing so could also restore some of the goodwill that SAP was once known for.
Finally, assessments should be made mandatory across all roles, including for managers. Employees’ futures should not be left solely to the discretion of their managers. A fair and skills-based evaluation system is necessary to ensure accountability and equality across the board

Bumping this from @ne+1k4m2z208 for being on point.

I left a place where everything ran like clockwork and the perks were real for a 10 percent bump in pay. Now I have to deal with pure chaos and leadership that seems to have no clue what’s happening. Some days I feel like I’m just part of a sideshow and we’re all waiting for someone to figure out the plan. It’s exhausting and frustrating, and I miss having structure.

Nineteen months later, tensions between Rosenbury and the Barnard community have reached a boiling point. Despite hailing efforts from her administration—like the completed renovation of the Francine A. LeFrak Foundation Center for Well-Being and the implementation of a long-overdue maternity leave policy—Rosenbury has also seen a tenure marred by suspensions and expulsions of student protesters, layoffs of 77 full-time staff members, and the faculty vote of no confidence she received in April 2024, the first in Barnard’s history.

https://www.columbiaspectator.com/news/2025/09/10/rosenbury-confronts-layoffs-student-discipline-and-barnards-financial-situation-in-interview-with-spectator/

Everyone keeps blaming work-from-home for performance problems, but it’s not the issue. Morale has been crushed by layoffs, budget cuts, and chaotic changes. Not taking away peoples' flexibility might actually build some goodwill and help fix some of the damage.