We have created an environment that promotes yes men/women willing to say and do anything to ensure they can keep collecting their LTIs
Too many people have been promoted simply because they won't rock the boat....unfortunately, the boat's needed rocking for quite sometime. Now, too many members of the regional, area and HQ leadership team only worry about ensuring they remain in their roles to receive their annual LTIs..... We have ended up with very average leaders who can read out well in ops reviews when times are good, but lack the skills and daring necessary to change results when times are tough. It's our own fault - we started to believe our own PR. We stopped allowing/encouraging constructive dessent.... The irony is many members of our C-Level team gained their positions based upon success that came from never accepting business as usual (rocking the boat), and by surrounding themselves with employees they could rely on to practice constructive dessent and act upon that decent...... Sadly, those employees have been pushed out and we are left with yes men/women and ops review/PowerPoint specialists...... Ooooops.