Current HRLT is a reign of te---r. Team of retaliatory, petty, arrogant, self righteous individuals who are full of themselves. I was in a meeting with them and the nonsense that comes out of MA, MP, TH, LL, OD mouth is mind blowing. The failed football player OD and the returned prodigal son MP can barely stand each other and each wants the last word. They are focused on self care versus employee care.
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I've had only ONE great HR person in my 10+ years in Tech and she just left without another job lined up. genuinly cared about our teams, advocated for us, led a ton of work, always did the right thing. All the bad HR folks are hanging out and they're letting the good ones simply walk out the door. its a shame. bring JM back.
time will tell whether TH can do the right thing
LL is a retaliator.
With TH at the helm, I don’t expect many sizable changes in HR. Maybe a few shifts but ultimately see MM 2.0 with maybe less cut throat layoffs and a bit more emphasis on systems. Now MA, MP, OD all hanging around forever, no idea. OD has a lot of negative feedback from an HR internal space. MP just is the same old same old, MA is the outsider with least Nike experience which usually last max 5 - 7 years. If you aren’t brought up through the farm system your time on the LT is limited, minus SJ who flew up from a director EVP in a matter of 5 years.
Whether TH has it in her to make change, depends on how long LL, OD, MA and MP remain. Her giving LL a bigger role and bringing back MP indicate she is no different from MM. If these leaders remain, you know the caliber of the leader who keeps them. We are fooling ourselves by believing she is a small notch better.
compliments of MM. she cleaned house of any leader different than her and only perpetuated the tone deaf echo chamber for years. there are still some good people in hr. i like to believe so because i am one of them. but weve been silenced for so long and she and her yes women kept getting rid of the people that actually tried to do the right things and speak up so a very big fear of speaking up exists. TH has some good in her so hopefully she'll be brave enough to clean house of the toxins and let the rest of us try to focus on the right things
HR is a trash fire. Nike HR needs their own HR for the boat load of problems they have there. Not one competent leader out of that group. Just Kool-Aid guzzlers and butt lickers who do no work but keep getting promoted because they kiss the ring.
The issue is HRLT doesnt have the depth to understand why Nike is unique.
Our business model doesnt make any sense, it should have never worked under any circumstances let alone grow to this size. It is centered around things that are not “measurable” so you cannot forecast and plan like a FMCG or fast fashion.
You are also located in the middle of nowhere unlike popular talent hubs in the east and west coast.
Layoffs or planned churn in a bank in NYC doesnt hurt, lots of bankers around in that region or su-kers that are willing to relocate.
Same with creatives in bay area.
The jobs are also very similar between different businesses, if you are a full stack engineer in FAANG you can be slotted to anywhere with little handholding.
There are people with 5+ years of tenure in Nike who doesnt understand some of the fundamentals. Sh-t onboarding cements that.
Than they read something trendy in an article (like gen-ai, consumer segmentation, membership frameworks or data driven blah blah) and try to replicate it within our ecosystem and it flops… hard.
People who are available are also not the best and brightest this nation has to offer.
The best way to address these shortcomings is treasuring talent like crazy and making actual investments on them so they dont leave, not the other way around.
There is a reason why competitors snatched some of our best and brightest.
Nepotism driven hr practices, rampant incompetence, lack of pay transparency or equity, never ending reorgs and sh-t leaders is the best way to destroy a business like nike and they just managed to accomplish that.
Just get rid of the entire HR org and start again.
I agree with some of those assessments, but unfortunately I think this is the best HR has been, which is probably a C overall. The bad HR Partners have been around for years and keep consolidating power and their role in the company. MP coming back made me laugh out loud.
Regardless - if HR ever wants to get out of the C range in my eyes, focus on Mentorship and Talent Development below the level of 55. Most of our 55 leaders aren’t these world class leaders and some might never be, you need to focus on the talent pipeline and get them to stay along with being developed. Currently, Talent Management is focused too much on the wrong audience.
OD has a template for everything. A ton of decks that lead to nothing. Failed as a recruiter, failed as a TM leader, hated as SC HR and got the geo job because of MM. I am sure TH will get rid of him soon as they cannot stand each other.
OD is the worst. How that dude keeps his job is beyond me. Does absolutely nothing.