If you had Michele’s ear, what’s one change you’d want her to make?
For me it would be stop promoting the people who make you comfortable and start protecting the ones who tell you the truth.
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@w7 I didn’t say it but I call BS. I’ve worked here almost 20 years. Ain’t nuthin’ I’ve seen resembling highly efficient no how. Well maybe a few things, last year’s holiday party was pretty good.
@ex whoever said this, I’d love to hear why you think so, and even an example or two of this efficiency.
“Some BU's are highly efficient and have processes that have been refined to near perfection”
Be honest and respectful to employees.
And you will get it in return.
@r2 guess someone didn’t like the shout out for him. HR got the post deleted it seems.
But that seems like a great idea for a new thread….development opportunities.
@OP all he knows how to do - hope she doesn’t fall for it
@nt lol, Mike’s got at least 6 articles about the new ceo on his LinkedIn, what a brown noser
@k5 it’s not mass layoffs. They promised they wouldn’t do more of those. It’s just going to be a whole bunch of smaller layoffs that are kept quiet. They’ve been happening for a while. PM is leading the charge but the rest of them will follow.
Can’t say it’s a bad thing. So many useless positions creating no value.
@d3 how could you possibly know this?
Don’t you think mass layoffs are the goal with the extreme push for AI? Changing people’s goals halfway through the year to focus on technological efficiencies?
@ex what do you mean “some BU’s”? There are only 3…and a quarter. Neither GDS, GTM, nor LP could even charitably be characterized as “highly efficient”. At best they are pockets of efficiency mired in wads of dysfunction and waste.
@an some BU's are highly efficient and have processes that have been refined to near perfection. Making those employees switch to an overly complicated and unnecessary model is making the good employees "quiet quit".
@ad if PM wasn't around we would be in the office 5 days a week and would have actual company wide layoffs again so careful what you wish for.
That said, it still su-ks for the folks affected by finance transformation
@c2 as a recently acquired employee, we have had damn near everything changed with the vast majority making zero sense and adding bloat to process. It’s been quite amazing see how badly they can sc--w stuff up that was operating fine for a century. I’d name specifics, but it’s apparent that 80% of the workforce is in middle management and plenty of them lurk here
@an that’s a good one! I’ve always been impressed how this company operates in the sense that every BU or region seems to be its own little empire with its own marching orders and that when standardization or call to change the way things have been done is asked…they resist and continue to do whatever in the he-l they were doing to begin with and there never seems to be consequences. True standardization across this company would be monumental!
FORCE BU's to adopt common principles, ways of working, processes across the org rather than allowing them to cry and whine for each to get their special way. Central Functions are a mess, not because of poor leadership or workers, but because our CEO won't support standardization when it really comes down to it. On paper, yes, OF COURSE we want to simplify and standardize... oh... but not if CG, MA, MH yell loud enough. Now that MH is in charge, let's see if this changes.
I’d fire PM into the sun
@OP let the local LDC manage the LDC.