Was on a team call and there was discussion of Stankey’s speech today - couldn’t attend myself. Anyway our AVP and one of the L3s could not stop fawning over it and talking about how great he is and the L3 talked about how fired up about the company she is when she hears him speak.
I don’t get this. Only been here a few years and was willing to give the benefit of the doubt since they at least had the sense to realize how bad the DTV and Warner acquisitions were and cut bait on them.
However, the backdoor layoff/RTO and the insane BS messaging campaign that still goes on around this (the L3 talked about all the great learning opportunities or something while wasting money commuting) ki-led any trust I may have had in leadership. I also see no reason to change my view after seeing other recent id--tic decisions that have only hurt productivity in the name of cost cutting or who knows what.
Question is what do these people see in Stankey? Is there some magic that I am missing here? I have worked for some truly outstanding leaders at other places and he and a lot of the sr leadership are not among them.