Why is that everything at IBM needs to orbit around a bunch of useless execs? And they are always having fun with ridiculous videos, such as this current one about watsonx challenge.
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@g3 Yep, Albany has far too many engineers in leadership and management roles who probably shouldn’t be there. A lot of them have little to no real business experience, and it shows in the decisions being made. There’s a constant pattern of poor judgment, missed opportunities, and avoidable mistakes.
What’s even more frustrating is that whenever people ask why a particular decision was made, the answer is almost always the same: it was out of their control, it came from higher up, or they were simply executing someone else’s direction. At some point, leadership has to own the outcomes instead of continually passing responsibility elsewhere.
Very easy. Called The Peter Principle and been around forever. When I joined IBM in the early 80s it was awesome. I cannot begin to tell you how great it was vs the %^&* hole it is now. All self inflicted and started by everyone's favorite troll's man crush Gerstner.
The Peter Principle, a satirical 1969 book by Laurence J. Peter and Raymond Hull, argues that in a hierarchy, employees are promoted until they reach their "level of incompetence," where they can no longer perform well, leading to widespread inefficiency. The book humorously explains why incompetence seems rampant in organizations, suggesting that people are promoted based on success in their current role, not for the skills needed in the next, such as a great salesperson being promoted to a manager with no leadership skills.
Core concept
The principle: "In a hierarchy, every employee tends to rise to his level of incompetence".
The process: An employee who is good at their job gets promoted. This continues until they are promoted to a position where they are no longer competent, and there, they stay.
The result: The organization becomes filled with people who are not good at their jobs, as the competent ones have been promoted out of their effective roles.
Key takeaways from the book
Satirical but insightful: It uses humor to critique management and organizational structures, but its observations about promotion and incompetence are considered classic in management theory.
Examples: It provides examples like a competent teacher becoming an incompetent principal because the skills for the new role (dealing with school boards) are different from the old one (teaching).
"Final Placement Syndrome": The book also describes symptoms of being stuck in an incompetent role, suggesting "distraction therapy" (finding competence in hobbies) as a remedy.
Mr Gerstner has not been CEO in over 25 years and still some of you are still complaining about him
GET AN EFFIN LIFE
What a bunch of sad pathetic people here. Bragging they are writing novels and stealing pencils. No wonder a lot of you lead mediocre pedestrian lives.
All I see here is rage, jealousy and envy.
@OP are you referring to Albany?
@dn : stop being childish.
"Quit lying". We are not in a kindergarten courtyard.
We know for sure you are a India HR bot, assume your role with pride as a Alvind kiss a-s.
Quit lying
@d4 the bad news is that they make a lot of money for doing little or nothing, except layoffs of US employees and transferring jobs to India.
@ax oh but you are, Mr. IBM India HR liar-bot rage-bait troll shill spanky-pants parasite !
And everyone knows that you could have up that number 897 from any IBM Web site or US employee. It's not like it is some magical, mystical number. It stands for the US location. Why not give us your employee email which is non-confidential to check if you are a real person or not?
You are another freaking loser from India like Alvind. Only difference is that you're a carbuncle bot on Alvind's backside.
Someone on the app described IBM Execs as "Internally important, externally irrelevant". Perfect description. Literal nobodies outside the four walls of IBM.
@a8 :
Years ago, the environments that were supposed to host WatsonX challenges were so bad. The clowns running the show decided to scale it back. It was dismal and embarrassing.
What makes it even more weird is that IBM execs, including the whole current circus, creepy Ginni the tanned dinosaur, and back quite a ways, are not charismatic or interesting in any way. They're not even meh. They're actually downright annoying and ugly. The stupid videos make them look even more ridiculous. The only thing that could find any redeeming value in any of them is our local IBM India HR bot. But that makes sense because he's programmed by his annoying, ugly masters.
IBM is just weird. I get being inside you get lost in it but really it’s just a very weird place
Nothing but negativity here. I for one am excited as I will be leading my team for the Watson X challenge