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Dan Schulman is stepping in as Verizon’s new CEO. At PayPal he built a reputation for being employee-centric, even raising wages and improving b

Dan Schulman is stepping in as Verizon’s new CEO. At PayPal he built a reputation for being employee-centric, even raising wages and improving benefits for frontline staff. He talks about purpose and fairness, not just profit. Is this the turning of the page for Verizon?


Dell’s Leadership Shuffle: From Exec Cuts to RevOps Confusion

A year ago, Dell Technologies made a big, bold move: it slashed nearly half of its executive leadership, claiming there were simply too many cooks in the kitchen. Cost savings were touted, “streamlining” was the buzzword, and the company pitched the decision as a smarter, leaner way forward. To top it off, product marketing (FPM) was folded under marketing. The logic? Keep all things “marketing” under one roof. Simple, clean, efficient.

Fast forward just twelve months… and things look a little less logical.

Dell has now re-hired a former exec—someone who had been let go years back—this time with a hefty paycheck. Not only that, the very same FPM org that was tucked neatly under marketing has been yanked out again and repositioned under this new hire. The shiny new label? RevOps.


Darren Woods is a POS

Telling some of your top performers and employees that the decision to cut your job was done to "strengthen the company". Next month they'll be saying their people is their power. It used to be "we only keep the elite, top performing" as if your status here is some badge of honor. Only the best get to stay. Think that lie has run its course. They think folks who continually refuse to pull their weight, do the bare minimum and constantly whine about the need to do more will match the work ethic of the folks they are laying off. Good luck with that. Ive given up my weekends, evenings and worked so many hours because of these so called competitive moves. Who's going to do that now? This is about a bottom line, a bottom line gets you bottom of the bucket quality. I hope this company finally gets what it deserves. For folks outside of the company thinking of doing business with Imperial or ExxonMobil. Stay far far away. Unless you love not getting paid, having no one to answer your phone calls and now no one to hold those individuals accountable to do either of those things.


Meet the new boss, same as the old

New head ceo and regional vice presidents since the last wave all got kicked to the curb at the same time. Naturally, they want to make an impact on the bottom line quickly, so they are going the basic mba bro route, by announcing that 10% of the company will be laid off in the coming months. Merry Xmas everybody! Remember… they’re not taking this lightly and it’s a tough decision, but what is a poor CEO to do?


Chief Corporate Affairs Officer out!

Announced via internal email by the old boss. Wondering if this was a condition for the new bosses arrival? Any smart financial leader worth their salt would look at the billions in lost market share due to a crisis of their own making and realize this needed to be done.

Honestly it surprised me it took this long, they presided over one of the most epic PR failures of modern time. It’ll be studied in communications classes for years to come. No cake at this going away party. Nobody “retires” in their late forties.


SVPs are thrilled

Lots of talk about the CEO but no one is talking about the SVPs that must be thrilled right now, especially HK who likes to motivate people with the fear of losing their job (he has said so closed door meetings)

They know people that made it through this layoff are afraid now, and I bet SVPs are thrilled.


Did Mike Sicilia FAIL on Day One at Oracle?

Mike Sicilia was the head of Oracle’s Industries Global Industry Unit (IGIU) until today, now he is the CEO of Oracle. I think he failed already. At IGIU VP/SVP titles were selected for layoff is only 5.6%, well below a commonly cited ~10% benchmark for broad reductions. Why might senior titles be less affected? We can all name plenty of worthless VPs and SVPs at IGIU. Transparency on criteria would go a long way toward trust. I don't trust Mike, do you?


CDO/CIO Gone and Good Riddance

CDO, then CDO/CIO, then CDOA/CIO is laid himself off by taking another job. The sad thing is he has taken credit for the work of those who earned their jobs without a friendship with Christa Quarles.

  • he did not lead an overhaul of the company's platforms, IT infrastructure, and business applications to improve security and facilitate more efficient operations.
  • he was given a fully secure an operational infrastructure. Under his management he lost two very savvy infrastructure leaders along with other managers and ICs who didn't trust his experience or the people he hired from OpenTable.
  • we are hosted in AWS and Azure mostly and all the operations were already efficient and secure
  • nothing changed regarding how the company used data as the team responsible is very savvy.
  • there was nothing to modernize considering AWS, Azure and GCP along with the rest of the SaaS apps the prior CIO and security leader implemented.
  • the Senior Director, Global Services left as he didn't trust him nor Christa.
  • the CTO had to obtain an updated SOC2 Type 2 after Grant and the CISO let the certification lapse for two years.

Confidence?

From what I understand the Stinky never gets any respect when he goes to those technical events in the US. That’s why he avoids them. He’s pretty much laughed at. These TECHNICAL conferences view AT&T as the most government controlled bi--hes. He’s our CEO for gods sake.


C-Suite and EC Next

Rumor has it c-suite and EC cuts are next now that the farce of a Board meeting is done. About time they start treating the senior leaders with the same ruthlessness they treat everyone else. AMN continues to use RTO to do layoffs without paying severance and hide poor financial performance. That may seem like good business to the bean counters but what it reflects is a bankrupt ethical culture.

Senior leaders bully SMEs into submission on quality issues, ignore compliance and cut corners that will ultimately harm patients (pay attention clients!). SpeakUp is a joke and the Board doesn’t have a clue that the worst offenders were the ones sitting in that meeting with them including those in charge of the so called quality and ethics programs.

Mark my words this company will not exist in 3 years. It is being run straight into the ground by unethical people.