Thread regarding Nike Inc. layoffs

OP - Why lead with your “qualifications”? Is it because you are trying to convince people that you are qualified and therefore we should pay special attention to your advice, or is it because you are insecure and want people to fawn over you?

In either case it makes you come off as a dou--e. Nike was built by people without fancy degrees or experience at consulting firms.

@bz

we also saw what happens when you stack the org with local liberal arts degrees. graduate from humanities and do tech portfolio work because the handbag mafia likes you lol

So your “innovative” idea is to…make relevant products merchandised in the right geos with relevant influencers/athletes? Brilliant. How did we not think of that before?! This is what I love about the self-important MBA’s… they are so inexperienced, and simultaneously arrogant that they go around saying things like this without the slightest hint of irony, because indeed it is their first rodeo. Postulating is easy and anyone can do it.

New policy: DO NOT HIRE Ivy League - or - “Top 25 MBA”

HIRE: Hard workers, people that show up, State school Women & Men

These big name schoolers never show up when needed… let’s get back to the basics and work hard to compete, come back, rebuild!

If you start any conversation with “as a former consultant”, you’re a tool.

MBAs and consultants are what brought Nike to its current downfall. With their shiny slideware they deflect attention from what truly matters- Innovation and engineering. Go back to basics. Fu-k MBAs

@OP

JD, is that you? found that pound of flesh that you lost yet?

Who said we don’t have ki-ler products and personalities, check out KK and her Skims lol

OP, tell me you don’t get it without telling me. consultants are what got us in this mess. The current org design is based on years of consultants coming in and siloing work with what looks good on paper without understanding or having ever done the work. Now there are so many layers it takes twice as long to get anything done and no one owns or is accountable for the outcome. No one can see beyond their own toes and anyone who can doesn’t fit in the clean boxes the consultants made so they get pushed out.

The competitors who are winning are the ones who pushed out consultants and focused on product and culture and athletes. Unfortunately every brand is now running the same playbook and often by the people who built Nike to its greatness and unless Nike gets back the the roots of talent who understand the fundamentals of PRODUCT and CULTURE than its fu---d.

You can’t put the art of brand equity or taste level on your spreadsheet and building a framework won’t solve it. OP I get your background got you where you are by simplifying things but it’s over simplified and you clearly don’t get it

@aq ok Portland Community College

We only take advice from top 3 MBA programs.

This is the most mba thing I've ever seen

Every sneaker collector with a highschool diploma has been able to make these points for the past 15 plus years

The sheer irony assuming op is serious and not AI slop where this dood doesn't get Nike's death spiral is in large part due to consultants who thought they understood the world but barely could scrape the surface

Inadvertently prophetic post