I spent 25 years at the swoosh before being caught up in the job eliminations in 2018. My first 10 - 12 years were absolutely the best! Challenging work, GREAT PEOPLE to work with, a culture that was vibrant and positive for the most part. When things changed they REALLY CHANGED. The common denominator was clearly a shift to outside talent, setting aside the experience we already had for those shiny new objects with MBA’s and big house consulting pedigrees. When that trend started nothing was ever the same again. Focus seemed to shift overnight from solving problems once and for all to whitewashing issues in order to make a big splash, get noticed, get rewarded. Since leaving I have never been as happy as I am right now.
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That’s it. The turnaround happened overnight and since then nothing has been the same, except that I, unlike someone who wrote this and who is now happy somewhere else, am still here and quite nostalgic for the old days.
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Sure, but now Nike is woke!