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The comeback cannot just be a message from the top. It has to show up in how people are treated.

Nike is in the middle of Founder’s Week and JDI Day is right around the corner. Now leadership wants to talk about inflection points, comebacks, legacy, courage, effort, and getting back to what made Nike great. I get the history. I get the speech. I get what they are trying to do. But from the floor, it hits different.

It is hard to hear “we are going to be fine” when the people making the biggest decisions still have titles, stock, bonuses, protection, and seats at the table. Regular teammates are the ones wondering what is next. We are wondering if raises are coming, what PSP will look like, and if we are really safe or just still here for now.

People keep saying, “At least you didn’t get laid off.” I understand what they mean, and I am not trying to minimize what teammates who were laid off are going through. Losing a job is serious. It affects families, bills, insurance, and peace of mind. But at the same time, it is hard to act like everything is okay for the people who remain.

From what I understand, some teammates who were laid off were kept on the books for a while, some received severance, and in many cases there was COBRA or some kind of transition support. That still does not make being laid off easy, but at least there was a next step. For the people still here, there has not been much clear communication. No real talk about PSP. No clear talk about raises. No clear talk about long-term stability. We are just expected to keep showing up, keep producing, keep adjusting, and be grateful because we were not cut. That does not feel like security. It feels like being minimized.

The floor has been doing the work. Teammates across all shifts have been doing the work. Production teams, support teams, trainers, technicians, leads, and everybody keeping things moving have been doing the work. People are running lines, hitting numbers, solving problems, training others, covering gaps, answering questions, fixing issues, and keeping product moving while trying to understand decisions we had no voice in.

So when leadership talks about fixing what needs fixing, I agree. But accountability should not stop at the floor. The people closest to the work should not always be the ones left carrying the weight from decisions made above us.

The timing of all this feels strange. Founder’s Week is happening. JDI Day is coming. Big speeches. Big messages. Big legacy talk. Meanwhile, a lot of regular teammates are sitting with uncertainty. People show up to these events because they want to belong. They want to believe in the company. They want to be part of something bigger. I respect that. But I also think some people do not fully see how much weight is being carried by the people with the least power.

I do not need more inspiration right now. I need real communication. I need transparency. I need leadership to explain what is actually being fixed and show that they understand the weight this puts on everyday teammates, not just the brand, the stock price, or the comeback story.

Nike talks about doing the work. The floor has been doing the work. All shifts have been doing the work. Now leadership needs to do the harder work too. Be transparent. Be accountable. Explain the plan. Stop acting like people should be quiet just because they survived the last round.

The comeback cannot just be a message from the top. It has to show up in how people are treated.


Nine Simple Wayts to Recognize Your Team

9 Simple Ways To Recognize Your Team

(The stuff that’s not in any handbook)

1/ Stop Micromanaging Them
→ Trust is the ultimate recognition.
→ Hire smart people—then let them work.
→ Oversight ki-ls ownership.

2/ Promote the Competent, Not the Loud
→ Results speak louder than self-promotion.
→ Reward outcomes, not volume.
→ Quiet excellence deserves the spotlight.

3/ Give Them True Autonomy
→ Treat them like adults.
→ Let them decide how they work best.
→ Freedom fuels performance.

4/ Pay Them What They’re Worth
→ Money talks louder than pizza parties.
→ Certificates don’t pay bills.
→ Fair pay is real appreciation.

5/ Fire the Toxic Performers
→ One bad attitude drains ten good ones.
→ Protect the culture, not the culprit.
→ Removing them lifts everyone else.

6/ Don’t Be a Je-k
→ Decency is rare leadership currency.
→ Respect costs nothing.
→ Kindness compounds influence.

7/ Give Them Time Off (and Mean It)
→ Burnout isn’t a badge of honor.
→ Disconnect means no Slack, no guilt.
→ Rested teams outperform exhausted ones.

8/ Listen to Their Ideas
→ Ask, pause, and really hear them.
→ Implementation proves respect.
→ Listening drives innovation.

9/ Publicly Give Credit (and Take None)
→ Celebrate their wins loudly.
→ Success is theirs—failure is yours.
→ That’s real leadership.

Recognition isn’t a bonus. It’s a culture and culture decides who stays.


Places gets worse by the day!

With all the changes coming to agency, operations you better get ready for more craziness. They cut agents pay, retirement bonuses, and SF stopped contributing towards their healthcare. If they will do that to agent's, you better believe that Total Rewards in 2027 will be very different. Agents are getting to see the true nature of this sh-t hole company. They will continue the churn and burn and pump and dump business model in claims. The 2040 McBurger workforce will continue to be a disaster and they will continue the accountability scam, meaning rules for the and not for me! Execs gotta get those bonuses! The day SF shuts down is the day the world becomes a better place. The Lemmings and corporate boot lickers are in corporate he-l heaven!


NetApp Executive leadership accountability is LONG OVERDUE

Days like today are always tough. When smart, hard working and loyal, good people get let go from doing their jobs to assuage the hubris at the top. Every single layoff has a personal and professional impact. I think there is growing frustration at NetApp that GK, our President and SVP of Comp to name a few continue to be here despite years of stagnant growth, lack of vision and being completely disconnected from field teams and customers. Everyone with a brain cell knows $10B by 2028 is not happening yet GK and executives keep pushing the same BullS*** narrative. Unless we get acquired or acquire a company it will not happen organically. Why not make $8B a realistic goal and stop the gaslighting. It's time for Executive leadership to be held accountable.


Nobody pushed back

https://howtocenterdiv.com/beyond-the-div/nobody-pushed-back

Every major architectural disaster has the same structure underneath: there's a technical, visible problem, someone — usually more than one person — can see it, but pushing back costs something, so the decision passes under the name of "alignment" and eventually the system breaks.

TLDR: Most architectural disasters aren't a knowledge problem. The engineers knew. Speaking up just wasn't worth it.


All bp VP hired by BL and MA are still gainfully employed?

Time to clean the rot and remove these parasites now. bp deserves new people (internal and external) to ascend and take bp to a new level. Meg will not have the luxury of time…similar to Woodside there are cracks in the edifice and challenges midterm…cheerleading because trading got a massive gain while the average gains by trading the last 20 years is a paltry 4% ROC


How do you deal with offshore teammates?

It's a mixed bag in my team. There are a couple who contribute fairly. I've stopped checking their work because they've proven reliable and knowledgeable. The rest just create more work for me. Everything they do needs to be reviewed and often redone. I can't shake the feeling that many of them aren't as invested in keeping their jobs. Which is counterintuitive, but still.


How did we become so soft?

We’re failing because there isn’t a single leader including our crybaby CEO who is willing to cut through the bureaucracy, say what’s actually happening, and get sh-t done. Instead we get endless semi-emotional town halls.

This is a job and not a family. I’m here to make a paycheck to support my actual family. And right now? Compensation is embarrassing.

At this point I’d rather work for ruthless leadership that executes than leaders who cry in interviews while the company drifts in circles.

We used to be obsessed with winning. Now we are the poster child of “winning isn’t for everyone including us”


John Stankey's Teams Status

Why does John Stankey's teams status right now show last seen yesterday? It does not show he is out of office or anything like that. Why is the CEO of a Fortune 50 company not working on a Friday that he is scheduled to work?

I had to do a 1 hour commute to the office and back in the middle of a busy workday so that my presence report shows that I was there. Why does the CEO get a free pass and I cannot? Is he playing at the Highland Park links today?


Typical Citi - can't get anything to work

I had an American Airlines card from Barclays. Two days back, Barclays switched off my account saying i should deal with Citi now via landingatciti.com. Of course the website doesn't work. I would have been shocked if it did.
Then Citi sends an email about account having been migrated and payments should now be made to Citi blah blah blah. Click the link to set up the account...nothing. That website doesn't work either

Absolute d-mb@sses. Of course, I saw the incompetency from way too up close when employed at Citi. The ONLY thing that seems to work without a hitch at Citi is A) Board approving billions in share buybacks every year despite heavy layoffs and B) Jane getting salary bumps and bonuses every year. It will soon fo from 42M to 45 and then to 50.

Anything else is a total mess at Citi


To all the new RTM’s that think they will have it easy…

Don’t think this will last, you will have your good MOW’s and you think you will sit at home sending emails and watching TV. Sooner we will get the AI scheduling program that will not only assign you stores to hit every week,but you will be tracked with GPS again. So to the one’s that think it’s not so bad, will see how you fall in 6 month’s


Most corrupt company ever

Zero consistency. Zero accountability. Zero integrity.

Right here in DFW, we have hundreds of managers working from home (I.e. Eric Smith team) or sitting in the office closest to their home; And non-market based staff managers spread out across the country working in their pajamas all day. (I.e. Korte org)
And how many managers with minimal skillsets are flying below the radar because their director doesn't want to give up headcount while seasoned managers with broad skillsets are being let go in other orgs.
Meanwhile managers that uprooted their families, moved to Dallas, adhered to RTO are being let go cuz they are the oldest in the team. YES IT IS HAPPENING! Most can't afford to forego the severance & fight it in court.

FU-K AT&T!


Enron 2.0

The amount of fraud and slamming and bundling that goes on is a shame. How has the whistle not been blown on this place. We keep the collection agencies in business with the amount of written off accounts I see. This place and the 3rd party sc-mbag agents have no integrity whatsoever.


Think like an owner. OK, here we go.

As an owner, I know this is a good company with kind, and capable people who are victims. The teams are carrying a huge burden, and living in fear, but the real issue is leadership. The company has become top heavy with expensive SVPs, slow to act, disconnected from customers and value, and incapable of executing with clarity or urgency or even working together. And whenever we hire a new person to lead, strategy shifts and we start all over, or worse they come up with the exact same plan that the old team did, but that leadership were too blind or paralyzed to execute on. For the last 5-6 years, there has been almost no meaningful customer context at the executive level, and even now there is a visible disconnect between leadership’s new direction and what CDW actually does in the market to create value.

Proof? The Overall messaging is weak. The company struggles to articulate or sell new solutions with confidence. Marketing has become performative instead of effective. Internal politics, favoritism, and executive empire-building are rewarded while execution suffers. Consultants swarm the business looking for problems to solve while accountability disappears, and we are slowed down. Teams compete internally instead of aligning externally against the market. Fundamental operational discipline, blocking and tackling has largely vanished. Stock is a perfect reflection of reality. We were given the shot.

An equally concerning problem is that too many leaders are learning the business while running it. A top strategy executive from a bloated fire alarm company with stock performance almost as bad as CDW’s. A CMO from a car dealership with no meaningful B2B expertise. A former C level executive from a second rate department store. A sales leader from an HR leadership role. A Bain person running partners and acquisition integration, now c suite strategy. And it goes on, throughout the organization. Customers can feel it. Employees can feel it. The market can feel it. Partners scratch their heads and wonder when it’s going to implode. You people literally have no respect in our market. We apologize for you on every call. Now, we are losing credibility by even working here. Destination workplace? .

At some point, there have to be consequences and structural change at the top instead of another round of resets and reorganizations.

Here is what should happen, thinking like an owner:
• Name a new CEO immediately, even on an interim basis. Anyone would be better than a stock in freefall with no plan. Alternatively, appoint a President with full operational authority from a competitor, or internally, who knows how we create value, is respected and has run these businesses. The organization needs visible leadership and accountability now, not eventually.
• Any executive who cannot hold a credible customer conversation about the company’s core business and solutions should be visibly removed in a layoff. We are better off knowing you were fired, in order to regain respect for you leaders and ourselves. This is not an academic exercise. If leaders do not understand customers relative to our CDW value, they should not be leading any customer-touching organizations.
• Standardize technical and AI enablement across the company using actual vendor ecosystems, proven customer conversations and market platforms just like our peers, not internally manufactured abstractions disconnected from reality created by the burglar alarm team. Everyone should know the stacks, the tools, and the customer use cases. Everyone should be able to prove it.
• Align sales compensation to strategic outcomes, not just individual revenue extraction. The current model rewards personal economics over company transformation.
• Stop socializing executive compensation across broad leadership layers. Compensation should be tied directly to measurable departmental outcomes and execution quality. If I am doing well, don’t penalize me for a weak link i cannot control. Or I will leave, like many other effective leaders have.
• Expand equity participation broadly across employees instead of concentrating upside only at the top. The people doing the work should share in the value creation. They will be loyal and work harder, and be able to actually hold each other accountable as owners. And we will do better as a whole.
• Reduce consultant dependence dramatically, or to zero. If the business cannot operate without armies of external advisors, leadership has already failed.
• Re-establish operational fundamentals: accountability, execution speed, customer intimacy, and cross-functional alignment. Reduce red tape at all costs. AI isn’t enough. Mentality has to shift.

Finally, leadership credibility and employee loyalty requires you make shared sacrifice right now, and it should also be very public. If performance, growth, execution, and customer confidence are all materially off-track, CEO and EVP compensation should reflect that reality. That’s CEO, CFO, COO, CHRO, CCO, CSSO. Accountability cannot only exist for the people lower in the organization. No pay until we are fixed. If you don't like it, please leave or don't expect any respect. Step up and lead.


Quick Question for Exxon historians: Who exactly was the brainchild behind eliminating the NRE protection category?

Was it: • HR? • A task force? • Darren Woods?
• A committee of frustrated supervisors who suddenly realized their 52–55-year-olds had stopped trembling in fear? I’m only asking because when the karmic boomerang eventually returns to sender, I’d like to make sure proper credit is assigned to the correct individual or department. Thanks in advance for helping identify the architect of this masterpiece.

Accountability matters.


You keep complaining about Goff Murda, but the real problem is the shameless Board.

Generally, a CEO with sustained poor performance is -on average- let go after ~3 bad years, if not less. That’s been studied pretty extensively across medium-to-large NYSE-listed companies, and the stats are easy enough to find. Yet Goff Murka is still here.

The decision about a CEO’s employment and performance reviews is handled by a committee of the Board. And Geoff himself is also on the Board. That’s one of the reasons CEOs often sit on boards in the first place: to avoid being completely at the mercy of the Board and to maintain some degree of stability and influence.

Funnily enough, three MDT board members also came out of GE. Funny how that works. At the very least, there’s an element of mutual back-scratching and shared incentives.

Being on a Board is a great gig: incredibly lucrative and relatively low-risk compared to operational executive roles. Great money for comparatively little legwork, with the worst-case consequence usually just being the loss of the seat. Geoff has a pretty nice setup with the GE network: everyone scratches each other’s backs and keeps the machine running.

This is basically a textbook corporate-governance criticism: board interlocks, executive networks, and incentive alignment reducing accountability for underperforming CEOs. We can stop speculating on the mystery of why GM has his job. It's this simple.

There’s simply far more incentive for everyone involved to sit tight and protect the status quo and their own interests than there is to force a change.

And that's where Elliott has come in. That's why they've gotten seats on the Board. What they do with the seats remains to be seen: join in on the grift, or try to save MDT as a company.

There is no mystery. It's rent-seeking in plain sight and will not change until the GE faction leaves or is removed from the Board.


Heartless and Targeted Layoffs in CIT

Layoffs in Corporate Information Technology Visa executives should be ashamed of how they handled these layoffs. Just weeks after celebrating record earnings and profits, they sat behind scripted talking points and treated people like disposable line items in a revolving door operation. While bringing in the largest intern groups in the matter of a week. There was no humanity, no accountability, and no meaningful acknowledgment of the impact on employees and families.

What’s even more concerning is the false narrative being pushed that AI will somehow absorb the workload of the people they eliminated. That simply is not reality. Visa has not implemented mature, effective AI capabilities capable of replacing the operational knowledge, leadership, and technical expertise that walked out the door. The result will be the same pattern seen in many corporations: fewer people doing double the work while executives protect margins and shareholders applaud temporary cost cuts.

What makes this even worse is the culture that remains behind. Fear-based leadership, outdated management practices, and forced “NS/NS” (Needs Strengthening) labels used to create paper trails and justify targeted exits. It’s an old-school corporate playbook disguised as performance management. Simply put…Bad Bosses.

The remaining employees will now carry significantly heavier workloads while operating under executives driven by ego, hierarchy, and optics rather than modern leadership principles. Instead of building psychologically safe, high-performing teams, the environment rewards politics, pressure, and survival mode.

Companies talk endlessly about innovation, AI Transformation, Psychological Saftey yet many leaders still manage people like it’s 1998.

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When senior leaders stay quiet

Leadership isn’t about staying quiet when things get hard. It’s about having difficult conversations especially when their employees are struggling.

What’s disappointing is watching so many of them stay silent while the mental strain on employees keeps growing. Ever since Dan became CEO, the focus has been nonstop customer obsession and AI obsession while the human side of the company feels ignored.

Employees are exhausted. Morale is down. People are anxious about their future while incredible talent is being pushed aside in the name of efficiency.

Let’s hope state and federal governments begin putting real guardrails around employment as AI rapidly changes the workforce. Companies should not be able to aggressively cut human talent in pursuit of automation without accountability or protections for workers and environment.

At some point, companies need to ask themselves: what happens when we automate away stability for millions of people? Will all of this still feel worth it when unemployment rises and people can no longer support themselves? What’s most disappointing is not just the decisions being made but the silence of the leaders who see the damage being done and still choose not to speak up.

Technology should support humanity not replace it at any cost.


Tough to swallow but true

I believe Verizon needs to continue building a stronger market-driven culture focused on performance, accountability, and long-term competitiveness. That means making difficult decisions when necessary, including reducing redundant positions and streamlining teams to stay agile in a rapidly changing industry. A stronger return-to-office policy is also important because in-person collaboration improves communication, training, innovation, and team culture in ways remote work simply can’t fully replace. If Verizon wants to compete and grow, the company has to prioritize efficiency, execution, and a workplace culture centered on results.


Microsoft & Planview

I have been in the company > 5 years working in various Orgs. This migration to O365 and Sharepoint has been a disgrace. Google sheets and Looker dashboards all losing functionality and requiring work. And having to run every tiny piece of work through the weeds of Planview.
How is this improving our company?
How is this improving collaboration?
Sorry for the rant and it might be off topic. BUT THIS IS A SHAMBLES.
When will the leaders be held to account instead of the poor workers dealing with their mess?!


GT all hands corporate BS

What a joke. Suddenly GT leadership figures out GT operates in a fragmented way... Worse, They think moving pieces on a chess board will fix anything.
Hey JH of Corp functions and RA broadly, I still can't get anyone to help me with failing SAP system to system transfers. I've been aka raising visibility aka begging for support... Oh for 6 months now at least. As a downstream system we even have a solution. But no one from your team shows up or takes ownership. Because they don't care. Cross org cooperation is MIA at Nike.

  • So leaders, fix the culture first! *
    Else you're just playing musical chairs and another layoff is imminent few months down the line because we will not deliver value with the status quo.

Dear Mr head of wealth

Monthly reminder that it’s been 6 months since you stated the org changes will be announced “in the coming weeks”. You expect us to do our jobs in a timely manner yet here you are completely hidden and didn’t do jack sh-t. We don’t respect you, you’re only protected by your title. That is all.


A Call for Accountability in Aerospace ISC Leadership

Aerospace ISC senior leadership is operating in constant scramble mode, recycling old ideas instead of developing real solutions. They’re not even attempting to rebuild the slide decks or MOS frameworks — they’re simply pulling forward whatever was used years ago. HOS is the clearest example: if it had truly worked, sites would still be using it today.

Rather than listening to the people doing the work, they’re bypassing basic management‑of‑change discipline and issuing knee‑je-k directives with no data behind them. Every week brings a brand‑new ‘top priority’ metric — not because it drives improvement, but because it creates the illusion of action for the board. The pattern is unmistakable: constant metric churn, no sustained focus, and no measurable improvement. If the approach worked, we would see progress; the absence of improvement is the proof.

At some point, the new board of directors will have to acknowledge that the dysfunction originates in the first layers of executive leadership — and that nothing will improve until those tiers are addressed. The board must begin asking the hard questions and digging deeper to separate the leaders who can actually drive change from those clinging to outdated approaches and contributing nothing new.


A gut-wrenching betrayal

HCA Healthcare’s offshoring of American IT jobs to India is a gut-wrenching betrayal that should outrage every American who values fairness, loyalty, and the integrity of our healthcare system. When CTO Sai Adivi announced the end of many American IT careers in an impromptu, secretive, BCC’d Webex call, citing a "successful pilot" and the move to "Phase 2" while referencing other Fortune 100 companies, the message was already cold. But the kn--e twists deeper with the detailed plans for affected employees to spend their final months in left-seat/right-seat training and job shadowing, meticulously documenting every skill and technology in SOPs so their Hyderabad replacements can take over. All of this while managers in large group chats including the affected employees post cheerful "happy work anniversary" congratulations.
This is not business as usual. This is a company founded by American physicians on American soil, built by generations of dedicated American workers, and kept afloat by nearly 47 million mostly American patient encounters every year, with tens of billions pouring in from American taxpayers through Medicare and Medicaid. HCA’s stock languished in the low-to-mid $20s until the 2012 Obamacare ruling dramatically boosted its insured-patient volume and share price. Yet today, at well over $400 per share, HCA looks its own people in the eye and offers veteran employees with 20+ years of service a severance package well below Fortune 100 averages, saying their knowledge, sacrifice, and loyalty are worth less than the savings from shipping jobs to Hyderabad.

The "train your replacement" mandate is cruel and humiliating. Forcing dedicated Americans to dismantle their own careers, hand over hard-earned institutional knowledge that keeps hospitals safe and patients protected, and then sit idle answering questions until the India team can stand alone, while the company pretends everything is normal and business as usual, is an insult that adds financial hardship, emotional devastation, and profound disrespect on top of job loss. It risks patient-care disruptions, erodes decades of U.S.-based expertise, and treats people who helped build HCA into a powerhouse as disposable.

HCA’s founders spoke of putting patients first. Today’s leadership, under the continuing influence of the Frist family, who still hold massive ownership and board power, has utterly abandoned that vision. Patients, American workers, and the taxpayers who subsidize this empire are no longer the priority. Cheap foreign labor and swollen profits are piloting the ship.

Politicians who accept campaign support, lobbying influence, or oversee the massive Medicare and Medicaid dollars flowing to HCA must be held accountable. Demand they investigate these practices, protect American jobs in critical healthcare infrastructure, and ensure taxpayer money doesn’t fund the offshoring of American livelihoods.
Shareholders and the board (including Frist family representatives) should also face pressure to replace leadership that has so clearly failed the original intent of the founders. The mission was patient care and human life, not maximizing margins by discarding the American workers who made it all possible.

American patients deserve a healthcare giant that actually protects their data and delivers reliable care with professionals who understand them. American workers deserve employers who honor their service instead of treating them as disposable after decades on the job, especially while forcing them to train their own replacements and pretending everything is normal in the company chat.

HCA should be beyond ashamed. It should immediately halt this offshoring, retain and invest in its American workforce, and rediscover the patient-first values its founders claimed to champion. Anything less confirms that for this company, loyalty, country, basic human decency, and the American dream mean absolutely nothing when profits are on the line.

This cannot stand. Not for HCA Healthcare. Not for any other American company that relies on the American taxpayer for its survival.

This post truly deserved a thread of its own so it could be seen by more people. OP is @qm+1kqg2w845.


JOMO

JOMO - The Joy of Missing Out —is the ultimate leadership flex. * It’s the joy of trusting your team to take "Total Ownership" of the talent lifecycle without you in the room.

Let’s stop rewarding "presence" and start rewarding "impact."
Who’s brave enough to decline that 4:00 PM "update" meeting and trust the team to handle it? That’s the BOLD standard.

#Leadership #JOMO

Wise words from our world class chro!!!


LAHSA Layoffs Follow Audit of Financial Controls

The Los Angeles Homeless Services Authority released delayed audit findings. These findings identified significant weaknesses in its financial internal controls. LAHSA subsequently issued layoff notices to certain employees. Los Angeles County is redirecting funding for greater accountability. Supervisor Horvath stated structural change was necessary due to a lack of transparency.

Los Angeles, California

https://www.smdp.com/supervisor-horvath-seiu-local-721-respond-to-lahsa-layoff-notices/