I’ve seen a few of these “leadership forums” like the one today. 90 minute waste of time but a bunch of arrogant jackasses. The leadership of this company is absolutely clueless on what is going on around this company. The morale is in the dumpster, nobody is “Baker Crowd,” the Integrity thing sounds nice at the upper echelons but isn’t realistic. If you report something you’re going to get retaliated against. The conversations around social injustice are just stupid, shut up and drill a hole. Lorenzo is a rich kid form a vineyard in Tuscany and has no idea what the real world is like. Finally the HSE team, does anyone take them or Kevin the CHSEO seriously? That guy is just plain worthless.
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Speaking of HR, anyone think Deanna should stop talking about yoga every time she says something. You’re laying off thousands but glad you get your hour of yoga a day.
HR runs everything - from Operations to Safety and Technology.
THEY know what is needed to run the organization.
(Major eye roll)
I worked at Baker over 9 years and while things were not perfect, there were good people who tried to manage things well for the employees, etc. In my opinion, the merger with GE was disruptive and amplified the areas where Baker was already struggling. Management expertise clearly lacking. Confusion led to dips in morale and lack of trust, etc.
It all started with that first ex-slb executive brought in as CEO years ago!
One baker was driven by wall street and an attempt to copy schlumberger and Halliburton... but couldn’t follow thru and messed up... and never quite recovered
Nailed it. Baker One was a fail. I called it when I first heard it. Thinking, are these clowns actually thinking they’re doing something right here? A grandiose idea which was actually a page ripped from Ford Motor Company’s own One Ford strategy playbook. In their case, it made sense. Too many luxury brands and they simplified their portfolio.
For Baker, they wanted to give the impression that we were global and local LMAO. All one and the same, when it couldn’t be further from the truth and business has suffered. Every 2 years a new puppet at the top that comes with new strategies they they read worked for Facebook, Amazon, and Google. GTFOH with that nonsense. Oil and Gas Service is a completely different beast.
Ah Baker One, the forerunner of Full Stream. Another initiative that no customer asked for or cared about. The joys of trying to explain to a customer what a “Geomarket” is and a disruptive internal reorganization that demoralized and distracted their service provider was a good idea. And who can forget the excellent timing? Immediately prior to the shale boom, dominated by local independent oil companies with drilling and completion engineers who wanted to be able customize and use components from multiple vendors. Remember the 100% “Baker Well”? How many of those were there? And what did Baker do? Adapt to the new reality, engage and listen to customers about THEIR business and change tack? Of course not! Double down on Baker One and then onto Full Stream.
Nonsense. The decline started with ‘baker one’ or ‘one baker’ whatever its called
Baker Hughes has been a great company. GE's leadership screwed up the whole company. They are great in talk and not much else. They don't even have courage and integrity to admit that they took the RMA $ away from its employees; they called it 'employees chose to forfeit'. Under the CEO, the company couldn't even design a new logo properly after 18mos of 'hard work'. Sad. I hope dearly that Baker Hughes will remain for years to come and regain its glory past – Board of Directors = needs to work harder.
Wow. U even have time to listen to the nonsense forum!?
And he does’t want to know.
Amen. Right on brother!!!
In Vino Veritas