The problem is that Blake inherited a ‘tu-d’ from “The sNosbusch”. Keith was NEVER leading the company. Ted Crandall was. Ted just “ pulled the strings of Keith the puppet”. Unfortunately, since, Blake has decided to put all of his retained earnings and cash in cash equivalent into purchasing software companies that have little to no synergies with the current and legacy portfolio (and he’s ’starved’ the legacy portfolio’s R&D budgets). On top of that, they’ve eliminated so much of the Rockwell, Automation salesforce, which has always been the “market makers”, versus 90% of the distributors which are “market servers”, so market share HAS & WILL CONTINUE to lose share. Blake just put the final nail in the coffin once he decided to go WOKE and put a very nice guy, who was not nearly seasoned enough, in charge of the OES group. He fired the OES guy prior, which was absolutely the right thing to do because he was a horrible people leader, but then he put in someone who was a good guy, but definitely not ready for that role.You also have a legacy of incompetent “yes men/women regional sales VP’s” that the sales organization put in to kiss the derrières of the incompetent sales executive leadership team that was there just prior to the incompetent Genereaux.
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So your solution is to hire a bunch of new people? How about we first invest in the pi---d off current employees that haven't yet been jettisoned. I'd love to quit my job, turnaround and get hired at my exact same position the next day with a minimum 25% pay raise.
You could have the best plan in the world, but if you don't have the people to execute the plan, you will fail. That's where we are today, we don't have enough people to even come close to meeting managements delusional goals. I think management has forgotten how a SMART goal is defined.
Yes, and? Blake is an engineer. Veena is an engineer. Maybe the God complex that a lot of engineers have, is the reason we're in this situation. I'd rather have someone who knows how to run a business than someone who can (lol) write code. Leave the business to people who have a business background, leave the engineering and technical expertise to product development.
Of the list provided, I really miss Frank. We would not be in this situation if he was CEO.
Matheus is an engineer at heart. I believe he isn't interested in climbing the ladder, but he has because he's the only one on the current senior leadership team that has a technical clue.
Everyone else can go.
We all overestimate our impact at work and underestimate our impact at home. F786 Rockwell, and prioritize your family. BTW, Becky is not your family
Let's all play a game 3 questions. What 2 leaders do you think are the worst. What 2 current leaders do you like the best and what 2 past leaders do you miss?
- Blake and Scotty G
- Matheus and Brian M
- Fran and Frank
I'll bet Arvind R will snake his way to another $1M of no value. Blake loves this fraud. But blake and becky are frauds too
Seems likely there will be more layoffs and a general decline in Rockwell. They are losing to almost all competitors and Blake and his leadership team is ill equipped to recover. To many new people who know nothing and/or second rate leaders not ready. I mean Matt, Tessa and Bob B couldn't write 2 rungs of code to save their life. Hire more McKinsey id--ts to "shed" light on "transformation"
Most of the RA VPs are “sales type” folks, not “founder type” folks. Story telling and rehearsed authenticity/vulnerability only not much substance or “know how” unfortunately!
This is not much different from the other big US corporations i worked at.
The rumor is Blake is out and Scott G. Is taking over. Blake needs to go but Scott G. taking would be horrible. :-(
Blake’s thinks he is smarter than all the former leaders who worked from vp/GM up. If you don’t agree with him, he made sure you left. He chose to become the “smartest” guy in the room by hiring external and promoting yes men. He chose revolution not evolution. And he think he changed the culture. He did. Just not for the better of customers, employees and shareholders. But he and board members got rich. Fire them all. And find a real successor. The current batch just don’t have the qualities to be a strong leader. If any of the 3 in the running are next, it will just contribute to the long term slide of Rockwell into mediocrity.
Scott G decimated Commercial Engineering without understanding the history or value add. Now that the shareholders have been "coddled" with news of cost reductions, perhaps RA should hire back as much talent as possible before it's too late.
Maybe Blake should call back a few of the people he so carelessly forced out before their time. He is a mo--n, but most people loved the company and what it used to be.
Veena contributed zip to acquisition integration or growth preparation of the acquisitions. Just one commercial nightmare after another.
Scott is the most unethical executive I’ve ever been exposed to. Not an ounce of change management activity, and purposely stirs his SLT to bicker and fight amongst each other, versus providing true leadership and a ‘north star’ strategy that all are aligned too. “Grow at any cost,” with no support to efficiently and effectively scale, leads to backstabbing, isolation and other toxic behavior. Gina and Susana were the victims of his lacking leadership.
The board needs to look closely at the incentive measurements they place on roles like this. It’s clear they’re narrow and create tunnel vision for these executives, when they should be incentivized for broader, total company scope.
NA hope falls completely on Jane’s shoulders… no one has any optimism elsewhere.
Scott G could very well be the next one.
Bob B or Tessa are likely being groomed for the next CEO.
Most of the RA VPs are “sales type” folks, not “founder type” folks. Story telling only not much substance unfortunately! This is not much different from the other corporations i worked at. GE is almost identical.
The investors will demand some drastic changes in leadership.