Jake Sims to NextGen Healthcare and Oscar Montes to Amazon. Can’t wait to see which Accenture retirees replaces them.
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Mark Knickrehm’s first love was aviation. As a kid, the Accenture Strategy group chief executive put flying on his bucket list, and accompanied high-school friends who had already decided to become pilots, to their lessons.
“I started young because I wanted to have a long career of flying,” Knickrehm recalled. “Later, when I was consulting, I learned at Los Angeles’ Long Beach airport, with some of the heaviest air traffic in the world.”
Flying, it turned out, combined several things he enjoyed.
“I liked the technology, and it was cool to be part of a passionate and diverse community of pilots,” Knickrehm said.
In order to pilot, he noted, you must successfully balance three tasks—aviating, communicating, and navigating.
And, he said, “you’re kept on edge, until you get it right. It’s like the chemistry equation: pressure, volume, and temperature. You have to manage several things at once, keeping them in balance, and adjusting, with every adjustment causing a change. Those are the problems I like to solve, where it’s not so simple that you can move just one thing—you have to simultaneously adjust parts that move independently but are interdependent. That’s the definition of a complex problem.”
Knickrehm has applied his problem-solving skills directly to his field of strategic consulting. As a thought leader who has spoken about the future of work at the World Economic Forum’s meeting in Davos, Switzerland, his specialty has become solving multifaceted, complex problems.
Jean Ostvoll, executive director at Accenture Strategy, worked with Knickrehm to build Accenture Strategy’s team. She said he lives by the player-coach model: “He rolls up his sleeves with client work, leading from the front. And he quietly but firmly holds his leaders’ feet to that same fire.”
You obviously have issues with admitting the truth to yourself. Maybe you should take advantage of the company and utilize some of those benefits and see a counselor.
It’s because of you
I’ll continue to get drunk on the company dime. Playing video games and watching Netflix is a good day at Gainwell.
I’ll continue to do nothing and get paid. This company is not worth doing anything extra for.
Gainwell is far from fine. It’s on fire. Anyone that says something to the contrary is an id--t with their head in the sand.
Make me, loser. I think I'll continue to do nothing and you can just cry about it.
Gainwell is not doing fine.
And your job is not safe.
Gainwell is doing just fine - in fact reviving from past fiascos like Kansas, Ohio DDIs. Heard that after TX, CA DDI went well recently.
For DBags who come here to vent their frustrations, try hard and find yourself another free $$$ making job - open challenge to you all…you know who you are!!
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Gainwell is full of empty suits. All of the leaders are empty suits. So I guess the company is exposed now huh?
Yeah good luck with that. Gainwell is rotting from the inside out. In financial peril. Every DDI has failed. Losing more business than they take in. Lying just to land a contract with no plans to deliver. Unethical and illegal behavior. Bragging that Ohio is the model account. Hahaha. And now offshoring at least half of the workforce.
Yep rotting from the inside out.
Usually, super successful companies like Amazon, and even NextGen, can figure out if a new exec is an empty suit and they have the financial stability and mgmt structure to avoid having them cause too much damage. This has played out over and over many times before...blowhard empty suits eventually get exposed.
well, if Amazon starts taking in top level Gainwell managers.... say goodbye to amazon.
Any company that harbors these Dbags deserves whatever calamity befalls upon them.
Amazon is a super-successful company. If Gainwell executives can become Amazon executives/senior managers, then Gainwell’s reputation can’t be all that bad.
Was this announced?
Did they leave voluntarily? Didn’t know Jake, but Oscar was a snake. So glad I got out.
This thing is taking on water fast.
An absolute nightmare.
Anyone that does a little bit of research on Gainwell would never take a job working for them.
I will just say this... the rats are the first ones to abandon a sinking ship.