How in the world does HON still have a job? HON has cost the company BILLIONS in lost sales and she was part of the internal mafia that pushed DTC, silenced and fired dissenting opinions, and brazenly told retailers we would be walking away from them only to come groveling back a few years later.
How in the world does HON have her job? if EH wants to gain the respect of the rank and file, he needs to show her the door. The same way that she showed the door to so many by being so wrong.
Please let her “retire,” so we can move back to categories. Men’s women’s kids ain’t working!
Because EH needs to know where all the bodies are buried before he cuts her loose
Because corporate America. Nothing succeeds like failure once you reach a certain level. NKE senior leadership doesn't care about running a company or know anything about sports or footwear, they focus on fighting and undermining each other. HON is just better at that than most.
HON had a lot of experience in Merchandising, and in typical NIKE fashion was promoted into a position she had zero business being in. I personally sat in meetings where she was "taught" about how retail works. She would brag that her experience was, "as a shopper". For people who spent decades developing the skills and experiences to understand DTC it was disheartening. Being an unsupportive, catty, leader was the GWP no one needed.
Nike has not held leaders accountable for their failures. They usually move to the next role before the sh*t hits the fan and then someone else is cleaning up their mess.
@a7+1jhs0gw46 More like a 10 million dollar question
Of all of HONs failures (and there are many), the greatest, unforgivable failure is that she hurt the brand.
Demonstrably hurt the brand and made it uncool.
You learn this early in your career at Nike. Protect the brand. We aren’t a tech company with some amazing technology to build a moat.
We make shirts and shoes. That’s it. The brand was the advantage. Before HON anyway
Unforgivable. And to be paying her 10M plus a year. Plus the mean girl culture she started.
Because Nike is and has always been a back-scratchers' club.
Her ascent to president at Nike was driven by the push for greater diversity and representation at the time. While that’s not an issue on its own, her leadership of the DTC strategy proved to be disastrous. Cutting ties with wholesalers, without accounting for the loss of shelf space, set the business back by years, allowing competitors like Hoka and On to gain market share. I also completely agree with OP’s point that she silenced and fired hundreds of employees for expressing dissent, only to be proven wrong. Her recovery efforts since then have also repeatedly failed. No other Fortune 500 executive would retain their role after similar failures. How does someone responsible for billions in lost market value remain in such an important position while earning $10 million a year?
Is it publicly known inside Nike that she designed the AirMax Dn?
Determination: did what it took
Excelllence : look at her track record
Improvements: she has delivered
This is a million dollar question, but I totally agree with you.