Everything here is dictated by how leadership thinks analysts will react. We’re always responding, never setting a direction of our own, and it shows in every rushed decision. Instead of building something solid long term, we just keep sprinting after the next headline to keep Wall Street happy.
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We don't need direction when we have the internet and mobility.
@ac the upper management thinks that your purpose of drafting this proposal means (1) you have plenty of time to think beyond what they have instructed you to do (2) your purpose is to draw their attention for your promotion, rather than thinking of the betterment of the country.
They discard your plan because they know only they can think of the betterment of the company. They feel threatened at your ideas.
Just accept it. This is the new rule of the world.
@a8 I’m not the OP, but I did draft a proposal to replace an antiquated system which T currently uses and is EOL. I presented the idea to every level up to our EVP. The proposed solution leverages ML and AI. It would save the company about $10M annually. Cut response time for customers and in some cases eliminate it by auto healing/resolving outages. Currently, none of our competitors in this specific space are utilizing anything like the proposed solution. I’ve been fighting for this change for 3 years and before the current SW went EOL. Yet, mgmt won’t pull the trigger. I’ve given them the numbers. Explained the dead end we are currently stuck in. They don’t care! None of the execs want to rock the boat and make changes because they are simply worried about their own a-s. It’s simply a shame! The people who know the biz, understand our customer needs and have good ideas are squelched out because exec mgmt turns a deaf ear to those below, all because the ja----s at the top has a bigger voice. #TopDownMgmtSucks
What ideas and strategy recommendations have you drafted and forwarded to leadership? Please post here.
@OP The major reason for that is the clown at the top has no idea what he’s doing!! Even though it’s common knowledge that you should surround yourself with smart people, he surrounds himself with “yes” people who are d-mber than a box of rocks. Additionally, a 2nd year biz major in college could tell you 90% of management is listening. Yet, Stinky has an ego bigger than the football stadium in town and he could NEVER be wrong. Until the circus is leaves town, this company will continue to be dumpster fire and always reacting to what others do, instead of leading like it used to do.