Anyone else feel like the CPB All Team meeting is a bunch of buzz words and nothing of real clarity? Sounds like investment in certain areas means new jobs or more resources? I feel like I know nothing more than I did before this meeting…
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(Also, the audio team was let go.)
This would be funny excpet its true.
@tsj you said “also it's delusional to think that ordinary people around the world "want nike to win."”
That’s exactly what I was referring to in a post last week when I said Nike spends a lot of time and effort marketing itself to its own employees, to the point of brainwashing. You’re correct. Ordinary people around the world don’t spend any amount of time thinking about Nike’s fortunes. It’s the height of arrogance to believe otherwise. Nike is a company that makes apparel and shoes. Like hundreds of other companies.
It’s this nauseous and incorrect sense of self-importance that has caused Nike to be asleep at the wheel while competitors steal our lunch money.
It was a corporate fa-t sniffing exercise for sure. They said absolutely nothing of value to anyone besides themselves and we all wasted our time to make them feel more important. I’d love to know one thing that anyone took away from it that we didn’t already know before the meeting. Absolutely no more clarity on how CPB is going to achieve anything that couldn’t have been achieved by its predecessor, and I saw nothing that made me feel like the reorg/restructure was effective. We’re going to keep doing the same things, going to the same people, decided by the same executives, but somehow THIS time it will be different.
These meetings, and “leaders” for that matter, have not been for employees since MP. If you think any of their attention is focused on you or your work, it’s time to wake up. They are speaking directly to the hand that feeds. You mean nothing to them.
My expectations were low but clearly not low enough…
Didn’t even bother tuning in and after reading these comments it looks like my choice was justified
lots of corpo speak and platitudes. nothing tactical. also it's delusional to think that ordinary people around the world "want nike to win." ordinary people want good jobs, political and economic stability, and for their kids to have a better life than they did. they don't care about which footwear brand "wins."
“Things need to change…… but let’s put the SAME people in the SAME leadership roles. Just move them around like musical chairs, they wouldn’t know the difference.”
A bunch of clowns.
Here’s a rhetorical question: most of the leaders on that stage have been at Nike for years, decades even. How are any of them NOT partially responsible for where we currently are as a company? Do they really think we don’t see seasoned longtime executives and decision makers up there, and think they’re all “new”?
I think this meeting really missed the mark because it again showed how our leaders are not tapped into where their workforce is right now. Before we get into “where we’re going”, let’s start with what has been absolutely destroyed the last 2.5 years: Trust.
At this point we’ve heard it all and we’re tired of the lying. Nobody is naive enough to believe that leaders never lie….but the level we have seen from pandemic to RTO to RIF has been intergalactic. And they actually thought it would work to just keep lying, replacing us with fresh faces who haven’t heard all the lies before. This isn’t 10 years ago, workforces know the lying when they see it, and morale won’t improve until we get a fair shake and are treated like adults again.
Not clear at all. I thought we were learning about the structure??! The panel was a bit more energetic but did we learn anything about FOP?
The panel is far better than HON opening. Yikes.
Also, the audio team was let go.