It seems he is the worst CEO Sabre ever had, looking at the performance metrics and his people skills. Worse than even Bill Hannigan... that is tough to beat!
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in fairness to tom klein, although he didn't have the technical nous, he knew enough to get technologists' help. there used to be a group that met every month or so for pizza and discuss all things technology with him
Frontier Airlines anyone?
I really regret Sabre prefers CEOs with completely no technical background. Whatever people may think about Sam Gilliland, he had some vision of Sabre just because he understood real challenges sanding in front of the company from technical perspective which allow him to make more or less accurate assessment of a situation at the time. Neither mr. Klein, who used to pretend Sabre version of Steve Jobs wasn't nor Sean Menke, who's rather an MBA guy, isn't aware what to do and where to head to make the situation better.
They're not like modern technological leaders, not even close to whom Sabre obviously urgently needs. Let me just skip mr. Klein, who was completely out of a blue personality, but the current CEO is rather a static clerk. Sad truth is that true Sabre owners drive this madness, who're not better than CEOs they hired.
There are CEO's that make companies profitable and there are ones that make them bankrupt. Look at his CV and where those companies are today.
He used employees to vote him as best ceo and the company great place to work and once they received these the layoffs happened. They should take them the awards back!
Yes, likely Sean ran this place to the ground, even though you can always blame it on Covid. Its convenient to be an executive since your job is ambiguous therefore your performance cannot really be measured, and you keep getting nice jobs. I still do not understand why you take 39 million dollar salary in 3 years while your company is not profitable, gives bonuses and high salaries to you e-team, organize expensive leadership summit while the company is not profitable and they you need to lay off people who worked hard for peanuts and possibly harming their life and health. Bad culture. Unfortunately its more common nowadays at most companies.
So you think Sean was the worst?!
Kurt: hold my beer...