There are so many layers of management that nobody actually knows how to lead or connect with their teams. And that creates this environment where certain people start believing that being close to a manager gives them the right to talk down to others and treat them poorly. The culture here has become genuinely awful.
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@OP 100%.
Leadership is not a position. It is not a title. It is a responsibility.
And these empty-headed, self-serving, a-s-kissing executives, VPs, SDs, and ads all seem ignorant of what leadership actually means-or what it means to take care of your teammates. That's the first rule in sport.
Even the world's greatest individual athletes understand this.
Look at Carlos Alcaraz, Jannik Sinner, Rory McIlroy, Scottie Scheffler, or Vincent Luis. These are elite individual competitors, yet they understand that individual greatness is built on the strength of a team.
They surround themselves with talented subject-matter experts - coaches, trainers, strategists, and advisors. People who bring different perspectives, challenge their thinking, offer honest opinions, and contribute ideas that are DIFFERENT from their own.
And they're genuinely grateful for those people. They recognize that their success depends on the collective talent, commitment, and trust of the team around them.
They don't demand blind loyalty, surround themselves with yes-men, or confuse agreement with competence.
Imagine that. The world's best athletes understand something that Nike's senior leadership apparently doesn't.
Great leaders don't need to be the smartest person in the room. They build teams of exceptional people, listen to them, empower them, challenge them, and, above all, take care of them.
That's how you build trust. That's how you build winning teams. And that's how you build enduring organizations.
Leadership is not about being in charge. Leadership is about taking care of those in your charge.
Nike should understand that better than anyone.
It's sport. It's teamwork. It's leadership. And it's supposed to be in our DNA.
#Resilience where the most unethical leaders reside. Where egos and people fill the building refusing to address issues the have poisoned the entire org. Get rid of RPO! Let’s be responsible and acknowledge that if anyone needs to go it’s that entire team! They create work for those of us that have real jobs.
Why is everything some one else's fault? Do you spend every minute of the work day doing only relevant things that advance the company? Does your job even take 40 hours a week? Would you tell some one if your job is superfluous and doesn't need to exist or would you just keep collecting a pay check. Maybe you are part of the problem. The real structural problem might be that it allows jobs like yours to exist.
Like most organizations, structure certainly contributes to institutional dysfunction, but the deeper problem is often organizational culture and leadership behavior. Groupthink, the Abilene Paradox, conformity, and other well-documented organizational psychology phenomena are readily observable when layers of management become more focused on protecting the hierarchy than encouraging independent thought, accountability, and honest dialogue.
Over time, proximity to authority becomes confused with competence, agreement is mistaken for alignment, and dissent is treated as disloyalty. Poor behavior becomes normalized, while capable employees disengage or leave.
Organizational structure may enable these conditions, but leadership is ultimately responsible for allowing them to persist. A healthy organization doesn't just need fewer layers of management. It needs leaders with the courage, humility, and competence to challenge the status quo, build trust, and hold people accountable regardless of their position or relationships.
Well when you have indians all/most management level this is what happens. Or south indians. Fking telegus. Just look at SRE.