Someone please correct me if I'm wrong, but here reorganization efforts fail more often than not. I'm getting a little tired of it. I have friends in companies where reorgs do not fail and actually serve to improve the company. What is the purpose of constant organizational changes that regularly fail? (apart from demoralizing people)
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yep been to two companies since I left and every re-org they did made sense wasn't nonsense like the useless management would do at cesspool att.
It’s akin to reshuffling deck chairs on the Titanic.
AT&T has 5 ideas. 1 works, 4 don’t. We recycle the same 5 ideas but call them something different each time. When each stupid idea doesn’t work, it’s never because the idea is stupid. It’s because the employees are not implementing it correctly then the id--t in charge moves or gets promoted and someone comes in to fix it, the next recycled idea is tried, employees don’t implement the idea and so on and so on. Finally we get to the one idea that actually works. Things start making sense, work is done more efficiently with less roadblocks. Then they move and the new guy comes in and is going to make it better. And the cycle starts over again.
The real reason is so the leadership can have "goals" against which to report made up "results" so they can appear to have done something to earn their large bonuses.
This guy gets it:
It's all change for change sake. Like everything they've done for the two decades. They change websites they change centers they change processes and procedures they change company identify they change corporate culture. They constantly change things and constantly fail to see they aren't making any improvements. They've confused change with improvement. Everything we do has been done better in the past.
Restructuring constantly hides historical comparisons and failures to produce meaningful results.
They cannot measure against last year, quarter, month, week’s results because we’ve changed how we are structured…
How bout a YELL for a couple T stocks? Good deal.
It's all change for change sake. Like everything they've done for the two decades. They change websites they change centers they change processes and procedures they change company identify they change corporate culture. They constantly change things and constantly fail to see they aren't making any improvements. They've confused change with improvement. Everything we do has been done better in the past.
Simply put, constant restructuring is a sign of both poor strategy and execution at the executive level. When you have a CEO that opening antagonizes the employee base instead of inspiring them you also have a BOD level problem because they refuse to make any changes.
There's going to be a town hall meeting for ATT BFS in a week or so and I wonder if they're going to discuss a restructuring of that org or will it be to announce some kind of downsizing? Not quite sure what it's going to be about since it'll be a first of its kind for that org. It's always a little disconcerting when a town hall is about to take place cuz you never know what is about to occur afterwards!
It justifies someone's existence in a position that is perhaps not really needed. They have to look like they are saving money even if they aren't. So they go through the motions of a reorganization without considering all the factors. It is also a power trip. att is full of people like that. It is why I sold all my stock.
The BellHead way is to reorganize whether you need it or not
Honestly have no idea, but they’ve been doing it constantly over the last two decades and they always act like this is the perfect plan that will somehow work when it’s failed every other time.
To demoralize people in the hopes you will leave. That be the stinkey way