I propose that there is a mid management level cull throughout NOV. Managers at the top are clueless and ineffectual, always have been/always will be. The mid level have neither direction nor personality - we require these to get back a culture of support and team focus.
“This is the way”
Children of the watch
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@1q1 I don't think I am confused, nobody who understands management levels. VP's and senior VP's are top management, not middle management. Just because they have a higher authority, doesn't make them middle management.
However, at the end of the day, we are essentially seeing the same issue and just calling it a different label. The direction of the company needs to change.
@y2
I think it is you who is confused business unit leaders, product line directors and VPs are meant to decide the direction of their associated product lines and they are the middle management that need culled
The c suite are the board and have no real
Clue apart from what they are told by the product lines and what the results are
So keep the upper management, but replace the middle management that get's its direction from the upper management? Seems to show a general lack of understanding who makes the strategic decisions that middle management then has to implement.
The only thing this will accomplish is get a whole new group of people that will find out that upper management protects each other and find out they are also just a number and do what they need to do to survive the job and provide for their families.
@fn nah it’s just AI editing.
@a2
You Sir are no as intelligent as you think you are. You use your large dictionary in a pompous arrogant way to try to intimidate people
You are wrong in everything you state !
To be plain you are a bully
Ah yes, the dramatic pause — the sacred punctuation of corporate prophecy. “This… Is… The Way” might work in a galaxy far, far away, but here at NOV, it’s less Mandalorian and more managerial pantomime.
As for memes and pop culture: they’re not oat cuisine, they’re more like instant noodles — quick, salty, and rarely nutritious. Dressing up layoffs in Star Wars cosplay doesn’t make the strategy any less hollow.
And no, not from England — but it’s telling that critique of performative leadership gets labled “anti-USA.” Maybe the real issue isn’t geography, but the allergic reaction to accountability dressed up as patriotism. If quoting sci-fi is the new management doctrine, then I suppose we’re all just stormtroopers waiting for the next reorg
Not a meme
According to the Oxford English Dictionary, a meme can be defined as an image, video or piece of text, typically humorous in nature, that is copied and spread by internet users, often with slight variations.
I agree with Din Darin.
But I would change the diction to - wait for it,,,,,
“This” pause for effect “Is” “The way”
What’s a meme and what’s “pop culture” is that like OAT CUISINE ??
Are you from England by the way, you seem a little bit anti-USA ? Or maybe somewhere in Europe ?
Ah yes, the ceremonial “mid-management cull” — the sacred rite of passage in every corporate fantasy novel. You invoke “Children of the Watch” and “This is the way” like you're leading a Mandalorian boardroom revolution, but let’s be honest: this reads less like a strategy memo and more like a recruitment pitch for a corporate cult with matching lanyards and a shared disdain for nuance.
The idea that gutting middle management will magically restore a “culture of support and team focus” is charmingly naive. As if NOV’s stock price is just waiting for the right sacrificial offering to soar exponentially. Spoiler: it’s not. The real problem isn’t personality — it’s accountability, vision, and the chronic allergy to meaningful change that runs from the C-suite down.
And let’s not ignore the uniquely American flavor of this post: the belief that dramatic gestures and pop culture slogans can substitute for structural reform. It’s the same mindset that thinks slapping a flag on a spreadsheet makes it patriotic, or that quoting Star Wars in a layoff thread constitutes leadership.
So yes, “This is the way” — if the way is performative outrage, managerial cosplay, and the eternal hope that someone else will fix it while we post memes.