#leadership

If they are shifting employee led initiatives like employees are responsible for development efforts and writing their own individual goals. What's the point of top heavy management? We dont need them! They cause more risk to the company by being sloppy.

Oracle is known for having too many layers of management. D and his close circle handle all the big meetings, while everyone else only gets small pieces of the work. This keeps the rest of the team from seeing the full plan. If Oracle fixed this and shared more information, the company would be much better off.
Need to get more Directors off-boarded or shuffled from their meeting favorites.

Don't spend it all in one place. Lead with compassion like I do.

....drum roll please.....

Chris Cartwright!!!!!!!

Mickey has the ba--s to restructure for the 5th time in 3 years and then cries on her all hands call…..give me a break

I heard there might be changes to community relations and related outreach.

I work with that group but have been off on a leave.

Have there been any changes? Same leadership or new?

Farce, folly, or felony ?

Quick translation: No you won't get more people; yes you will get blamed for ELT decisions; we don't care about your burnout.

Thoughts on Amplify this week?

Here's what came to mind... after a painful week, I had to fly in and can't get home fast enough.

It's a cult around this place
Winning, winning, loosing?
Leadership has their heads in the sand
Nothing to address stress of layoffs
Nothing to address loss of market share
Nothing to address sinking services business

Seems to me that with so much a$$ kissing that I witnessed first hand, this week alone reinforced that I have ZERO confidence in this company.

What are your thoughts for those that were there? Is it just me and I can't just jump into the cult?

Cisco enterprise networking SVP jumps ship to Nokia.

https://www.sdxcentral.com/news/cisco-enterprise-networking-svp-jumps-ship-to-nokia/

In townhalls, people keep complaining about GPDS. Leadreship talks about GPDS replacement. But GPDS keep getting fatter and keeps adding more non-value work on engineers.

I would expect major layoffs before the new dude starts in April

He won't want to be the bad cop straight away so it will be done before then

That era has passed. Only leaders with exceptional skills and a high degree of adaptability can save companies and make them prosper now. I'm afraid we don't have that kind of leadership at our disposal.

1st post - I’ve checked in here for a while on and off occasionally and my sentiment is largely the same. Full disclosure - I left a while ago.

What if this forum could coordinate our frustrations and impact (even small positive) change? Yeah, I know - doubters, I hear you already and don’t disagree. If the board has not fired him already, chances are slim if not zero.

You know, there are several thousand views to each post on this forum. This means people take time to read what is here and, I want to believe that frustrated or not, it’s because people care. I am sure some are bots and some are random, but I do believe most are not. (Maybe that’s too optimistic?)

RTO silliness - really sad - just the latest example of clueless leadership - I’m sorry (sincerely).

But, what if?

Give your feedback and hit the arrows to the post up or down (like or not). If there are more downs then ups, this is my only post. Maybe this is just a healthy outlet for frustration - if so, OK! (I know it’s needed)

But if this larger group wants to rally, and feels the promise of Truist pre-merger and the actual failure of achievement of potential due to poor leadership cannot be fulfilled, maybe there are a few constructive (non-violent of course) actions that can be pursued. Whether you were hBBT or hST or even new since then, How do you feel? Don’t worry about comments, just hit the arrow up or down. Let’s see how this forum feels about this post.

If you have work friends that you can trust, invite them to check in here from time to time. Whether a real movement and strategies emerge or not who knows but growing the audience matters.

As Teammates, former or current, known or not……..in Both the Frustration and the Truth, I am yours truly, ___(me)

hero ! Yessssssssssssssss !

Ya'll ready to pull yourselves up by your bootstraps?

I reviewed some quarterly meetings with the ELT and one important question was asked to the CEO.

You have mentioned we have the people to win and emphasize we are a people-first culture.
So, why is cutting people first a yearly action plan for long-term growth and profitability?
After five years of people first cuts, might it be time to rethink this strategy. How about people-second?

Does anyone know if this person was made an example of?

Our company isn't doing great and we were hoping the next CEO would actually be able to help us.
Care to way in on what kind of boss Ayman will be?

Oxy involved in a major divestment or is purchased as a reserves play?
Leadership direction and composition?
Stock price and fundamentals?
Overal morale and employee engagement?

Best guy for CEO!
I bet on Mark!

https://www.usbank.com/about-us-bank/news-and-stories/article-library/us-bancorp-announces-leadership-changes-in-its-operations-function.html

Chief Outsourcing Officer is retiring.

AI??? More like incompetence. They couldn't get their AI platform off the ground as of the end of last year. They eliminated contractors who were working on datacenters related to automation and AI. All I saw was non-stop push back against progress while I was there from middle managers who do nothing but fudge reports. It's just more smoke and mirrors to hide the fact that the executives are out of touch. No one is driving the ship.

slashing costs like crazy (20% of USELESS CORPORATE BR workforce), going lean and "scrappier," obsessing over customer-first moves, and finally turning heavy 5G investments into real subscriber wins against T-Mobile and AT&T.

Critics whining about outages, support drops, and slow growth? Watch the earnings numbers crush those narratives. Subscriber net adds rebound, margins expand, AI plays kick in. Schulman's proven he turns giants around.
Haters gonna hate, but earnings will shut them up. $VZ to the moon under Schooooolman. 🚀

I get the guy is a bank-hopping (literally his sales pitch in his first meeting) likely H1-b, but his use of the English language is rather terrible. He routinely spouts non-sequiturs that diminish what he is saying, but in today's autocorrect-tuned world, nobody catches it. This guy is being paid a bunch of money to axe a bunch of US jobs, and the guy can barely utter competent sentences in the target audience's language.

The guy he replaced was significantly more capable as both an idea man, and a communicator. This ship is sinking fast.

In all my years here, the leadership has never been worse. They consistently make poor decisions that demoralize everyone. How do they keep their jobs while the company suffers?

Please remember this if you’re second-guessing yourself. You were not fired. You were removed because of lousy leadership that can only make itself look good by getting rid of as many people as possible to make the numbers look better. That’s all this is about.

Stinkey thinks hes cute and funny, or when he tries to be. Our stocks have plateaud, people are leaving, ones staying will retire in 2 to 3 yrs or so, cant hire youngsters because nobody wanna work here.... on top of forced 5 days without a SEAT. Leadership is solving the wrong problem. To all of yall who played his townhall yesterday, and mute the sound, Kudos to ya!

Pretty clear Bill only cares about share price.

He gets a question about ICE and he just waffles and rambles about how we need to be calm.

He gets a question about culture and he barfs out a word salad about safety.

Kate & crew attached themselves so easily to Naas . . I wonder what they pivot to next since DW (Dave Ward) bolted on 1/23/26 ?

Let's see how this plays out.

Asplund Leadership Consulting!

Year 1
Comms overload
Ameanable
Pay rise

Year2
Comms wind down
Grumpy
No pay rise

Year3
Limited Comms
Angry
No payrise

Year4 (if they make it)
Whats comms?
Who knows how they feel
No payrise

Credible estimates are that 10-15% of employees (7,000-10,000 people) will be laid off over the next several months, with the process beginning today (1/29). Cigna is in the mess we’re in because we:

1) have no actual long-term strategy,
2) have significantly under-invested in our systems and products for years, focusing only on short term earnings, and
3) have let our operating expenses get too high, primarily due to the systems inefficiencies caused by #2.

The CEO, President, and CFO are directly accountable for all three factors. Yet it is all of us who are paying the price for poor, out-of-touch leadership, incompetence and personal greed (prioritizing short-term stock price performance over long-term company viability to maximize their own incentive compensation).

The main reason cited for all the layoffs is that our expenses are out of control. Hmm… who was the CFO the majority of the last 5 years while that was happening? Oh right, it was Brian Evanko. So he let it get out of control - and then got promoted to president?? It was maddening to hear him tell us in the December town hall that our expenses were out of control, as if he had no idea how it happened and it was a surprise to him. The lack of self-awareness and accountability was stunning.

In 2024 David Cordani made more than $23 million and Brian Evanko made over $10 million. Since the odds are very low that they’ll get fired by the Board of Directors for chronic mis-management, does anyone want to bet that at least their 2025 bonuses and incentive awards will get cut as part of the overall cost cutting and poor company performance?
Hmmm, no? Me either. I expect they’ll just reward themselves with more massive bonuses and stock awards rather than being held accountable for the situation they put the company in.

Good luck to both those who will lose their jobs and those who will be left behind to try to salvage this mess with far fewer resources and devastatingly low morale. We’ll each know which group we’re in soon.

When the fake review scandal $hit hits the fan.

Does anyone believe this business can recover, or has years of ineffective leadership taken it down too far. Rumors are that this business is next on the spin-off list after MMS.

When they tell you 3% is all they had in the budget for you this year.

Not sure how true this is but my director said they heard rumors - just rumors - that a 10k WFR is planned for the next 3 months. At least half of which will be in February and March. I do know they are part of a leadership TEAMS chat because they told me so. I asked which orgs were being hit, or likely to be hit and was told that from what they have seen in the chat, ISG, CSG, Sales/ISR's are being targeted, along with higher level Maverick folks.

idk how true this is but this is just what I was told this morning.