#leadership

Rawool Fernandass announced with great enthusiasm “My leadership is uniquely leaning itself toward strategic penetration as we fully embrace a deep engagement with our organization’s Assponential operating framework".

And then days later leak the news and every source reports 15k job cuts?! Was this Franz's first task in office?

It's not a merger, They have conquered TU and spoiling TU products and core teams who build these systems for so many years. There models failed from past 3 years and poor in managing their own Neustar systems. Inefficient to understand TU systems and how important these are for consumers. They are finally making sure all these systems sinks before they leave.

Leadership is saving Neustar team and kicking out TU core teams just believing their bullish overhyped products which are worthless when they try to implement it in past 3 years.

When are the leadership going to realize they are just a part of the overall machine…if they don’t take the employees with them this whole thing is going to fail…badly

A simple google search would tell any prospective employee to stay away… not to mention threads were people are trying to piece together what’s going on because leadership is being super shady. It screams toxic in the worst possible way.

Reflecting back on the past 25+ years....wow we really had great leaders who built Verizon the right way in Seidenberg and Denny Strigl. They literally started from the bottom and moved up to CEO. It's been downhill in leadership ever since .....

From Ivan:

“Leadership is all about standards . . . those people who watch you . . . they watch how you do your work. Do you cut corners?”

“Leadership is also about respect – how you treat other people. Do you treat others as equal?”

"...when you're in a position of power, what you think is right and correct doesn’t always mean it’s right and correct. To earn respect and trust, a good leader performs the job according to the needs of the people around them, rather than their own ideas. “It wasn’t what I thought was a good job, it was what the people around me thought was a good job.”

Leading by serving the needs of others may sound counter-intuitive, but it’s an effective technique.

It was a rough 8 years watching Hans post his daily morning runs, weekly sporting events and late night concerts. We wasted 8 years with him. He was a Trojan horse.

Has Met with Indian PM Last year and promise more jobs
Now Verizon has 8000 US jobs to Indian on top of that All The IT Jobs moved there then HCTEL 10,000 Plus given to India
Verizon Leadership Sold the employees for Kickback
Top Kickback taker : Sampath Sowmyanarayan , Shankar Arumugavelu
HAns and all the SVP

They are hungree for extra zero
If wall street investigate them and their kids and family member will find the kick back india they saved there

Even New CEO he is here for money he is getting $1.5 Million plus 250% Bonus and 17 Million stock ...for him win win employesss loser loser

I’m genuinely curious if anyone else wonders what’s going on with Nike’s HR function. The constant layoffs, reorgs, and shifting structures are confusing at best and destabilizing at worst. If HR can’t get things right for themselves, how are they supposed to get it right for the rest of the company?

In my experience working with that team, it’s a mix of highly competent people and others who are… not. Like many parts of Nike, it often comes down to who you know and how willing you are to step over others to get ahead.

The latest move…eliminating the head of Recruiting and burying the function should be a signal to everyone. Maybe the person in the role wasn’t the right fit, but that’s neither here nor there. The bigger concern is the direction of the function as a whole. It feels like we’re heading into a darker period, and the signs are all there.

It's really telling to see an industry article on Medtronic and what do they chose to highlight? Micra! They have to go back 10 years to find a great success story - and all the leaders who said YES to micra before the project even had a name, or who pushed to got it though to market are long gone, who remains behind are people that are content to ride the coattails of that original work, keep patting themselves on the back about how innovative we are, but meanwhile fall behind the competition as they watch their quarterly earnings and their MIP targets. This used to be such an ambitious company and now its totally acceptable to be "meh".

David Kim and team will be leaving to go work for Peter Adderton, the former owner of Boost Mobile. Dan is selling and exit under-performing businesses. I think we can all agree that Verizon Value is not valuable.

Heard Jeff’s vest was in NJ today. Who’s got the T? What did he say?

For the SVPs and VPs that were notified, what happens to their roles? Do they just get replaced with someone new? Do their teams get moved under other SVPs or VPs?

Add a quarterly reminder on your phone starting Feb 9 (~ VCIP townhall) to ask your leader how opex per boe has changed since Jan 1 2026 and what are we doing about it. We cannot stop asking this ever. Do not let them surprise you in a few years that costs are up another 20%. Hold them accountable.

If you see cost creep around you, just play it cool and write to your VP. They'll like it. Skip middle management. They'll learn.

CEP if you are reading this you need to create an anonymous cost creep hotline.

With any luck, we can avoid the next one. 10% cuts are large, 25% is derilection of duty and utter mismanagement, with consequences only for the rest of us.

Don't just watch it happen to you. The food on your family's table depends on it. Good luck. Add that phone reminder

Verizon is in this situation because of poor leadership, which was replaced with poor leadership, which is now being replaced by more poor leadership.

Just once, has any of these feckless leaders held themselves responsible? I mean they blame the economy, they blame COVID, they blame the employees. But they never take responsibility.

Isn't that literally in the credo?

But, it is the employees who will suffer. Hans will never have to worry about buying groceries, or losing thier home or paying medical expenses. Neither will Dan. They care about nothing and no one else.

The are typically sociopaths (and yes, there are peers reviewed scientific studies that show this).

Just once...

If you were in a Roundtable discussion with a VP does that help your chances? LOL

I even pointed out the obvious [on multiple occasions] to VZN via detailed feedback.

Oh well, my new carrier of the past year has been great and MUCH cheaper. VZN is yet another memory

S.S. said:
Layoffs are a symptom of a system that has lost its heart, not a strategy, and great bosses don't lay people off.

No great bosses here. Just overpaid C-suite listening to consulting firms who use spreadsheets to chop people and perks.

That's it. That's the post.

Why do we have to listen to sales cr-p from AWS or open AI in an employee town hall? Only because the leader do not know how to speak to an audience?

I believe there’s a lesson here for the Board of Directors. It has to do with leadership accountability, starting with the ELT and cascading all the way down to front line management…. If nothing else, the BOD should have some questions about why this huge layoff was necessary. And I don’t think it’s all Ryan’s fault. This could have been avoided.

These Value brands used to be their own business's and pay Verizon for “access”.

Nancy got moved to protect her nearly 40 year tenure.

Indirect dealers have been beefing up their operational staff with old Verizon execs.

Should be interesting next week.

... is Ajei. He and 5 generations of his offspring are good now. Everyone else suffers.

I thought that the new CEO could be one of the rare good guys based on his history. I was so, so wrong.

This whole sh*ituation is down to three things:

1). Hans. He was the CEO when we saw the company going from being leader in everything to leader in nothing an losing in the market. Buck starts and stops with Hans, all the while he spent more time at sports events than actually running the company. GUILTY.
2). The Board. They signed off on the plan every year. They are ultimately responsible to the shareholders. They need to be held to account and changed. GUILTY
3). The dead-beat VLT. They came up with, and 'executed' (right word) the plan that got us in this situation. In particular Scampath. GUILTY.

ALL need to be changed otherwise zero credibility. One down, two to go.

When they say cutting managers are these the higher ups or just management in general

Thanks to the Johnny and Jeffrey sh-t show, our insurance tripled in cost. Same exact options at a worse provider. This is what Leadership and The Board thinks of us who gave them decades of our lives.

Anyone notice that a few SVPs weren’t included in the Q&A today? Yolanda, Julie, Kwame? What could this mean? Do they have nothing to contribute? Some of the questions involved their groups… I would have like to see them speak.

With layoffs looming and articles all over the news. Employee morale at its lowest but our VP , Jarrett - wants a plan to fix a metric. No one is addressing the stress and fear that our people are feeling. What a low person

I wonder why he just reorged his group this week if he is retiring in 2.5 months.

Bryan appears to either be simple-minded on his approach to running SOLV (into the ground) or being directed by a higher power or deity who has no idea how to run a HC company (Peltz). Either way, he has once again proven that the GE style (Welch, McNerney, Nardelli) of "leadership" simply emaciates a once-strong company into a parceled mess of unrelated businesses waiting for a spin or break-up.

Thankfully, I got to leave during the Covid wave of layoffs and enjoy retirement and coffee mornings on the porch, but still care from time to time about what was left behind.

When Bryan was named CEO before the actual spin and gave his first townhall, people on this board sounded so optimistic, which made sense since Roman was a complete buffoon as CEO. Not sure if he talked much about actual strategies for growth and investment or he just used soothing words and bubblegum phrases to get people to like him, but the shine has clearly worn off.

Annual layoffs, as occurred at 3M under Roman and now at SOLV, only prove you have either NO long-term strategy except for HOPE or you have a strategy that changes faster than the weather in Minnesota every spring and fall day. Either way, Wall Street has (finally!) learned that such a "strategy" is a loser and has kept SOLV stock changing mostly sideways while the SP500 is up over 15%.

Having read a few of the public SOLV releases to shareholders, it appears that SOLV is not likely to have any major runout during Bryan's term. NO long-term growth = no long-term ROI. He has never indicated either to employees or Wall Street what his plan is to reduce the massive debt 3M left in his mailbox. He is the antithesis to Lee Iacocca who earned $1 per year and potentially worthless stock options while flying commercial to DC to lobby for loan guarantees.

Perhaps the only strategy that will work is a series of mergers and spins with other HC companies to spread the debt across multiple companies, hopefully stronger and run for growth. But where would this leave Bryan and his guaranteed 40 million per year? That's the sting! I'm convinced a McKnight CEO would quickly be forced out by some activist investor wanting a quick return for their buck like Peltz.

If there's any consolation, Peltz is basically sitting on dead money with 600+ million invested, almost zero gain on the stock price, and no dividend for perhaps years to come. No wonder he keeps pushing for more layoffs. But the layoffs people talked about this week appear to wiping out business critical roles that will only hurt SOLV and help the competition.

Sorry to hear about this 2nd round of Holiday layoffs. The people at 3M/SOLV deserved much better than Roman, Hanson, and Brown.

Love that he kept the meeting and is actually addressing the issues (well, sort of). Still, much better than all the "leaders" who are simply hiding and too chicken to talk to their employees (like Kyle or Shankar)

Management is trying to make the vast majority of their workforce obsolete, because they realize that those workers are coming to grips with how obsolete, and malicious, these "leaders" are.

It's a showdown on a massive social scale as haves and have nots push each other to the point of watching the resourcefulness and the competence of the individual to rise above both ownership and technology, in order to focus on one single thing - GETTING SH*T DONE.

PS. I want my Fu**ing bank back. I am not your slave. I am not your knight. I will not fight for those who seek to destroy me, or defend those who blindly comply.

Can you imagine any other workplace where an exec indulges in verbal thuggery?
Here the CTO uses abusive language at the drop of the hat.

What does the HR do?
Pretend like nothing ever happened.

Do we really need such utterly spineless HR guys?

P.S: I hope the HR folks get to read this.

Did anyone catch a Freudian slip yesterday? I feel like there was a lot of stammering because of nerves to deliver bad news. But did anyone catch this?

This isn’t verbatim, but something was said along the lines of - we have to make tough calls.. why? For the greater good of the KING — and then instantly corrected to TEAM.

Both of them are hated by people within their own org and people outside of their org.: Somehow these two continue to survive.. what’s their secret?

When did Ford move to the People Leader / Individual contributor model? And how did they categorize existing employees at the time? Did anyone get a say in their label?

This man is a buffoon.

https://fortune.com/2025/11/12/ford-ceo-jim-farley-secret-education-path-c-suite-ceo-job-study-supply-chain-like-tim-cook/

Why in the world has he not been fired? FoMoCo will continue the downward slide. Saddening to watch.