Yes even the ones with remote teams!! It has been OVER TWO YEARS since 3/2 and almost a year since 4/1 and Nike STILL has VPs that are not in Beaverton. It is no surprise that these are some of the worst, selfish, most hated VPs in the company. Get them back on campus or make them exit!!
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Shut down ATL. How much money are we spending mirroring things we already have on campus like a retail lab for one mother fu--ing person?
@2zil+1vB5kfM0 That would be the VP with a happy fully engaged remote team.
Gee I wonder which GT VP is using a VPN to downvote OP! Hmmmm
“There should only be one manager of managers” —- management principle for effective organizations. Maybe Nike is a bit big for that, but the thought behind the principle is that if your function is only managing up & downstream, then what are you contributing to the company? How many levels does Nike have? Does not take a wizard to see that the more levels there are, the less agile, efficient and creative a company is. Way more effort is spent in reorgs, filling in the gaps because people are moved but who owns what is in constant flux/negotiation, and then responding to status requests from up the chain —- rather than creating new things, fixing what’s broken, or even working on the tasks/projects on the plate. If we want to turn the ship, attack the unnecessary overhead. The 80/20 rule is work/admin —- here it’s flipped around. So many good people, so many resources—- but ineffective at producing results. Is like having the Yankees payroll but never making the playoffs. Is some hard questions that need to be asked. A little digging and the answers are clear.
If employees need to "return to campus" for the sake of collaboration that is related to being on campus, then leadership of those employees should be physically at the location of where they are too.
Anyone that hasn’t figured out how to be productive or lead remotely by now should really switch to fields that require them to be onsite for manual labor. They are the perfect people to work the coal mines.
I dont mean to be brutal by this but global tech and adjacent product teams need to be back in office. Most are home grown and aren't marketable to jump to faang anyway. VPs should not even be a question, same with Sr directors, come back to the office. This company was built on collaboration, culture and a belief in the brand.
It does matter where they are. Not all VPs on campus are effective but show me a remote VP with a happy org or satisfied partners. EH needs to clean this up immediately. It is bullsh-t and everyone knows it.
Doesn’t matter where they are. VP for Resilience is on campus and the whole org is useless. Too many useless VP’s in general. Having them onsite doesn’t raise their value.
If I could +100 this @ OP I would...Lead by example.
Show your team you are with them and if you say "you have to be in the office 4 days a week" then be there first and leave last.
Lead by example, it's such a basic tenet of being a good manager that seems to have been forgotten in some sort of "privilege adoption".
And to have this be a regular thing at the VP level? Pure absurdity. Oh and usual comment about all of CIS being remote.
There’s A LOT of this happening at Sr Dir / VP level. No accountability
if they go to campus it will be clear there are at least 2x the amount of VPs needed