Disastrous leadership

All Avayas struggles can be attributed to disastrous leadership and without doubt over the past 10 years the bullying culture that senior leadership has cultivated. There hasn't been and isn't anyone in the top executive management line in the USA that you would get excited about taking into a customer and delivering an evangelical believable message. Here in the USA we have some great folks below the executive line but they have been beaten to a pulp and had the life sucked out of them which then flows down and affects the " feet on the street ". The bullying culture so rampant in Avaya International is driven out of the UAE and the cabal of inept individuals that wouldn't get a leadership role in any other big organisation. You then look at the major European leaders and it's the same again - under qualified people that you wouldn't dream of putting infront of customers and when you have no choice they promise the world deliver nothing and end up costing Avaya it's credibility and hundreds of thousands of $'s. It's a god damn shame.

An excellent point by @idb+1ifItRPC.

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I would think that JC is currently looking a clever ways to distribute his $15m etc. so it is irrecoverable at a later date

People keep suggesting that Avaya sell some of its assets in order to reduce the debt. The enormous Avaya-owned buildings where I used to work were sold years ago. The Avaya-owned patents that the new CEO thinks are an asset have probably been licensed to the point that they no longer have any value. Those of you who think Avaya should sell some of its assets: What sellable assets do you think Avaya still has?

JC was waiting for a $30m cash in on his equity PLUS the exec perks. He was looking to leave after securing $45-50M total, so in CEO land, it is a drop in the bucket . It was his greed that led to this. They needed the new CEO YEARS AGO.....unfortunately, no CEO will not be able to enter a time machine and fix the legal and regulatory mistakes. And no strategic leader has the power to overcome legal and regulatory issues. We can all celebrate that he appears to be a great leader, yet we must accept he does not have the ability to "fix" Avaya for it to succeed. HIs role will be to manage the damage as best as possible and hopefully sell off assets as cleanly as possible to best benefit any shareholder. That is the reality and people need to stop believing he will be some sort of miracle worker.

With regard to the $15M JC received in FY21, it looks like Mel Brooks was right. Quoting Gene Wilder in the movie The Producers: "You can make more money with a flop than with a hit."

Certainly, HOWEVER, the upside down management also drove any real talent away from Avaya. So majority who sit below exec level are dutiful followers who couldn't cut it outside of Avaya. And speaking of Evangelists.....HA Ha Ha HA! Take a looksey at the clowns they are using. Their marketing folks just perpetuate the charade.

JC received about $15m in FY 2021 so the lad did OK for himself..

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