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UK Leadership MIA

During tough and difficult times, not just LRs, but a tough business climate, that's when you expect to see a leader at their best, showing leadership, direction, unity, empathy, and support?
Where is Sarah Walker? Totally missing in action, taking selfies with Oliver and other seniors, probably.
If you are a leader, then lead!
Pushing the teams for more inspection is a sign you don't know what to do, you don't understand how to enable the teams, keeping them away from customers and burdening them.
Missing in action because its got tough or bad news is around the corner is not leading, it's cowardly!

Put your selfie stick down and get amongst the people and practice what you preach!

by Anonymous
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Not sure what to do. There appears to be jobs in the U.K. but no one ever responds against an application. Every job gets over 200 applications on LinkedIn within 24 hrs of posting. I was so excited to come work for Cisco in 2017. But I have now learnt that Cisco on CV is a curse. D-mbed if you stay and damned if you try to leave.

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Post ID: @3eye+1v8voKvb

@ywu+1v8voKvb Agree. Ask for even an internal training on internal products and his response used to be “justify business reason because you are an SE”. As if SEs don’t need to be technically trained on our own product. Try to go meet a customer and you need permission for the expense. Totally ki-led off any tech potential , motivation and brand name awareness in a fabulous SE team in the U.K. theatre by gaslighting and bullying. Focussed on penny pinching cost saving so that he can glorify himself to upper management.

And CP himself is on paid TV programmes regularly boasting on LinkedIn . How does he justify the business reasons behind those expenses?

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Post ID: @3nie+1v8voKvb

SW got this role on merit ….. hahaha yeah right, box ticked

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Post ID: @3oio+1v8voKvb

It's good she is MIA. Better than her being in action and sc--wing it up even more

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Post ID: @1ldw+1v8voKvb

"Its common knowledge how liked she is at her old employer... And internally..."

I was also well liked at my old employer and internally - can I take her job please? Or even better, be the CEO? This is the main problem in the UKI. People who are "liked" by superiors get promoted, not people who deserve and have earned it.

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Post ID: @1qya+1v8voKvb

Its common knowledge how liked she is at her old employer... And internally...

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Post ID: @1rvu+1v8voKvb

"How did she qualify for the role she is in? Background looks very sketchy."

That's the UK way. CP was a marketing guy doing DevNet hocus-focus and all of a sudden, in 2019 he was promoted to director of all of the SE teams in the UK - without having any relevant experience at all. And we all know where that thriving org is now - cronies and drones promoted, anyone he saw as a remote challenge to his position LRed, anyone who was any good has left and /or pushed out.

In the UK org, it's not who you are, it's who you know.

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Post ID: @ywu+1v8voKvb

How did she qualify for the role she is in? Background looks very sketchy.

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Post ID: @jws+1v8voKvb

SW has gone for a walk for a change since change is the only constant.

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