If they were the CEO of DoubleTree hotel, they would cut the cookies.
If they were the CEO of San Pellegrino, they would cut the foil top.
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Name a transformational project Polaris, assign hundred of people to it. Yet years later, management still can’t simply explain what it is!
Claim the successes of others to gain unbelievable bonuses.
This is the skill that helped them succeed at EM.
They would do whatever BCG tells them to do!
Reorg, outsource, and layoff. Call BCG or McKinsey and have them do their job for them.
If they worked at Chick-fil-A they would have the person that takes your order sit in Argentina and only accessible via a goto link.
@f5 how dare you say such negative nonsense about our leader DW. He is an amazing leader who has turned EM into a fantastic company. He is an absolute visionary
LM, former Upstream Oresident just joined the board of a company.
ND, upstream president prior to LM is on the board of a major construction company.
The executives are not brilliant. They're not exceptional. They're not particularly intelligent, elegant, charismatic, or even especially attractive. They're mediocre, boring, and remarkably uninteresting. There's nothing extraordinary about them. They preside over enormous profits because they happen to run a company that sells something the entire world needs. That's it. Meanwhile, the business itself is disorganized, disjointed, inefficient, and riddled with dysfunction. It's a chaotic mess of broken processes, unnecessary bureaucracy, poor decisions, and endless corporate transformations that only manage to make everything more complicated while promising to simplify it. And yet, despite all of this, the company remains profitable. Imagine running a business so poorly that almost everything feels broken, yet still making billions because the world desperately needs what you're selling. Then having the audacity to call yourself a visionary leader. Stop confusing profitability with brilliance.
The product is extraordinary. The executives are ordinary. And the employees are the ones holding the whole mess together. End of story.
They would do something like spend millions to make "new Coke" - a product that no one wants to buy. Thus causing the company to have to spend millions more to market "classic coke" to bring back customers.
@OP Same thing they do at Exxon.
And lots of these guys sit on the boards of other companies. They WFH too.
Must be great to be an executive.