Pepsico has all the curses of size, without enough benefits from scale.
I've been a part of both smaller and larger organizations and have consistently observed that the closer to the field a decision gets, the better. In the military, they call it "small unit leadership", and it's sorely lacking at Pepsico.
I am heartened that our senior leadership team in the US has finally begun to address the challenges middle managers have been trying to tell them for more than two years, but the fact that it took that long for our words to come out of their mouths, is a problem. A truly open and transparent organization would already have a solution in place.
Perhaps we need to start our next round of layoffs right around the top, and get rid of the number massagers, and milkrun chaffeurs.