the morale is so bad our team- no direction set by managers (no-- they are not acting as leaders), still no role clarity, and so many people worried about saving their own a$$. I thought the layoffs would help provide more clarity and that the duplicate roles / work would be simplified--- was I wrong?
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@5cby+1t5LMpKt well said! MN in NSRL is the biggest con artist I have ever seen! "Come talk to me", "get in to make this place better Or get out".... Does this man even listen???? All he does it to identify his opponents and fire them.
With leaders like MN in NSRL, it’s no wonder the place in shambles! But hey, smooth talking and looking the part can get you far at Nike, the rest of us are collateral damage in the wake of self promotion….
@2top+1t5LMpKt this is an accurate summary of our leadership today, simply complete the echo chamber loop and walk away with a fat paycheck. Zero ability to act with courage and “do the right thing.” Why rock the boat and risk the huge paycheck?
You see it in the ‘culture council’. It’s filled with people that the LT knows will just complete the echo chamber loop. It’ll never have people that will speak truth to the LT on what’s required to actually improve morale. It’s all about appearance.
Right on @2rrh+1t5LMpKt
And HR will enable and allow those VPs to do whatever they want…. Despite all signs they are wrong people
More than upper management, the middle management was also good. A players bring A+, C players are fearful and are not leaders, more command and control managers. So they bring only C- managers whose primary role is to say ’yes’
So the middle management has also weakened. And because they can’t clean house more, they are just holding on to them and these folks just coast. Would be a wonderful to get back some previous senior and middle management leaders who understood the soul of Nike and actually embodied the brand in all aspects.
As a business we will do fine, it’s a giant company. It’s whether we want to show up and bring our true selves to work everyday to make it better is the question
sometimes companies get too large and begin to have a government like structure/culture
@2dpr+1t5LMpKt Yes GT has been a fun place to work over the past 15 years, yet it did depend on the team you were on within GT. You could work collaboratively with your partners, had a strong team that worked together and made a difference with technology solutions that positively impacted the users. However, with today’s GT LT, it is truly at rock bottom. Unfortunately they have lost their way, not trusted by the teams in what they communicate, and there is a clique amongst them that they have convinced themselves they are great.. sadly— it will take a major shakeup to get this addressed and MD, DA, TT, JH, CF, EC, RA, are not the right people to lead the organization.
Nike leadership has no skin in the game. They are all operating out of fear or anxiety. There use to be a time when we had fearless leadership in GT when we dared to think bigger and bolder. And speaking of fun remember the hack days or Just Boo it ??! It showed that GT leadership found innovative ways to keep morale high. Folks who were hired came from global companies with relevant experience. The leaders knew tech and software engineering. Not a bunch of vendor loving IT leaders from Khols !!!
Has GT ever been "fun" to be in? I've never known anyone to ever be happy in that organizations and I've been here for 15 years.
Morale is low because of not feeling valued, not seeing how the work makes a difference (moves things forward in a positive direction), and knowing there is no career path (upward) if you’re a normal human being with values and integrity. On the flip side, morale is also low because of seeing unqualified people hired or promoted, whole teams with no value-add, and a long list of brokens and bad processes that never get addressed. The focus of tech is only on new tools, never on adding business functionality - which may require new tools, but more often than not it’s fixing what we got so it works —- and most of what’s broken is because of customizing things for no reason, acting selfishly (not fixing brokens that impact downstream teams), and whole teams that never interact with nor are ever held accountable by business teams. Chaos rules, because we act like fools
Why y’all still expecting “”leadership””
Or how? 😹
It’s amazing that we go through a company wide transformation and leadership still has no idea what existing/new roles function should be. Get ready for another round of hiring freezes!
Sure everyone hates being in the office doing what could be done from anywhere, but hey, what if we let you run a relay AND eat spicy chicken at the same time? Bo-m! Culture!
Welcome to GT!
Land of spineless, survivor Vps who get promoted every time they do not deliver on their commitments and finger point to the team.
Need a list?
Adobe? SEC? Platform strategy? Tech centers?
Now enlightened by a person with 0 experience on the job and no willingness to listen
Lol! Are you in NSRL by any chance? After de-moralizing the team for the past 8 months and destroying the team by firing left and right, the clueless leader is now organizing team building activities through bullsh-t meditation!!!! Backstabbing and bad mouthing others is at the top!
Haha. Plaid Pantry dunk.
@mrq+1t5LMpKt Sounds like SeBr of analytics, but I wouldn't be surprised to hear this statement apply to other "leaders"
No, your clown a-s leaders are wrong. However, you have definitely been misled and will continue to be.
If a team had the same leader for more that 8 years with hundreds of people in the team, been through 3-4 reorgs, changed team name like 5 times, and still delivers nothing more than fancy decks with conceptual ideas that never really happen. Then the problem is the leader and now it’s more clear than ever with so many good people that was let go instead of the real culprit. Just morale thief.
What would they expect with the same unimaginative leadership still in place. At this rate we’ll be doing collabs with your local car wash in a few years. Get ready for the Kaady Jordan one lows.
It is like that with our team and others we work with.