The hallmarks are all there: stagnant results, miserable morale, endless politics, teams at war with each other, constant brain drain, and management that rules through fear. Sound familiar?
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@bg+1jtmh4zy4 AKA "Big Ba11s AKA C-Suite "You asked and complain for a minority and femaleb leader for many years...."
Please define who the "You" were and place some actual dates around the "many years".
This kind of generalization sounds like an exec who was groomed by our current administration, "Don't use specifics, but state it as fact."
When she called employees' concerns "nonsense", I was so shocked I was wondering if I heard wrong. Then she answered the morale question with no its not low- "find a friend". This was not the time to be flippant! She was disrespectful, belittling, showed zero empathy and was just plain rude to all the people she is now leading.
It was an atrocious performance. I was 100% willing to give her the benefit of the doubt but this is not how a true leader behaves. This is not how you inspire people.
"She has to show strong and determined leadership"
Are you American-born and raised?
The way she conducted herself in that call was the polar opposite to what heritage Americans consider leadership. It was what we generally call tyranny, but even that isn't a good description because it wasn't just ruthless, it was also cold, personal and mocking.
She had a year as the CEO in waiting to watch, learn and develop a familiarity with the role and responsibilities which a CEO needs to embrace, particularly in a publicly held company which is underperformed and drawing critical attention from the Wall Street analysts. Rather than trying to get the company back in gear, we'll spend tremendous resources defending the indefensible, advancing the double standard and further minimalizing and minimizing the ethical framework that once set U.S. Bank apart from the rest of the banking industry.
You have no idea what being a leader is if you think she showed any leadership what so ever.
There was no connection to the company, its employees, or anything. Her speech was cold, and read from queue cards. Just because you can cite the history of the company doesn't mean you're connected to it or (the lack of) its culture.
If a male CEO had acted this way the backlash would be just as fierce. None of us really give a sh-t if the CEO is male, female or otherwise. We care that we're treated with basic respect and not mocked in a call among the highest levels of leadership. Good leaders don't mock their people and they're not so out of touch in their millionaire tower that they can't identify with at least some of the struggles of the worker bees.
You asked and complain for a minority and femaleb leader for many years and now that you got what you're asking for you're complaining and bashing her. She just became CEO and inherited all these issues. She has to show strong and determined leadership because it's those that have been weighing down others making them pull their slack that's feeling this backlash. Get it together or you can go somewhere else you have her and others support if this is not a good fit for you.
Re:Microman are you F’ing serious right now?
That was her her very first full frontal moment infront of the actual faces of this company. She belittled, disrespected, devalued anyone with a thought or question that didn’t align with her way of thinking.
She chastised us like a school teacher, taking her glasses off and calling concerns nonsense.
She won’t come back from that, at least internally. She really put a bad taste in people’s mouths.
This will be an unpopular opinion but she has taken over the reins for a couple weeks and should be given a fair shot.