The biggest problem here is that leadership never shares what’s happening. It feels like they don’t trust anyone and keep decisions behind closed doors. This lack of openness has created frustration and mistakes, and honestly it’s the culture that’s holding us back more than anything else.
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I don’t think we’re open at all now. It’s clear that the reshaping of Illumina culture, is based on the removal of critical voices and talented people in favour of sycophancy and people who will not offer critical challenge to bad decisions. I’ve heard Directors saying that their teams goals are now solely to ensure that their own goals are met or exceeded. The overload of poorly defined projects, corner cutting and general collapse in standards and integrity across the entire business is frankly, terrifying.
Having been at Illumina for a number of years, I’ve never seen such a rapid and regressive culture change anywhere else. Jacob and his team are simply moving deckchairs on the titanic. Whilst directors and senior managers are carving out their own small fiefdoms.
I feel more disconnected from the top of the organization than ever. We have so many layers and layers of management over us it's a disgrace. What winds up getting communicated is probably 5% of what is discussed at the top level.
I think we are Open but the ELT has no idea what they are doing. So, we are all operating under an information vacuum.
having been at illumina for 10 years, I disagree with this. I think we are actually much more open now, the main issue is that most people have no idea what is going on.
We re open use to be one of our key value I don t have the feeling this is the case anymore. People are less and less open. They might as well remove that value.... it will be disappointing and frustrating but at least it will be more honest. Though is honesty an Illumina value? :-D
Oh, not to worry, the new values will take care of that! Lol