Here are some ideas. Cut the overwhelmingly staffed executive suite and use those savings to support employee benefits and jobs. Empower team members. Honest communication/transparency at all levels of the organization. Treat all levels with respect. Get rid of the us VS. them culture.
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Einstein said, 'The definition of insanity is doing the same thing over and over and expecting different results.'
This has been Follett's insane business plan for the last few years:
Sales s--- before rush --> Hire another VP --> Sales still s--- after rush --> Layoff a bunch of hardworking people gutting the company of knowledge --> The day of or day after the layoffs buy 2 more companies with a bunch of obsolete inventory --> Token robotic RG message delivered --> 1 week later hire another VP --> Restart cycle
Somewhere SP, AS, FP and all the old leaders have to be laughing at this.
Just another sign that this leadership can care less. Really....another VP!!!! For a company struggling to stay a float...what a dumba-s idea! I can't say it enough. Actions speak louder than words. And the lack of respect continues.
HaHa too late FHEG just added another highly compensated employee to the already bloated executive suite. Let's create another new VP with 2 people reporting into them because after all it would have been so difficult for JH to have them just report to her directly.
Maybe RG needs to learn why the ship is sinking instead of just taking on more liabilities that come with golden parachutes. Stop playing games and just sell the company to the private equity firm already.
It starts with respecting your customer. follett hasn't done that in a long time. If the executive team respected the student, the alumni, the faculty and staff as individual customers, things would begin to change.
Management claimed, when they slashed payroll 3 years ago, they were realigning to better serve the customer. The industry, the employees, and the customer saw that for what it was; it was a lie. That's how much follett disdains its (former) customers. Not until management learns who its customer is, and they begin acting with respect for that customer will things change for the bottom line and change for employees.
You could have said these things, 2, 3, 5, 10, or 15 years ago. Execs at this place have always had an elitist and us vs. them attitude. The thing that makes it worse is none of these jokes of human beings have any reason to feel elite. They were somewhat big fish in a very small pond. No one cares in the real world.