Pure propaganda.
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The LT uses too much "management by avoiding decisions", according to behavioral scientists, passive aggressive avoidance is the most disrespectful form of human behavior.
@g0+1k1nxn2f7
Right On Brotha / Sista !!!
If performance is lacking, .... it’s because goals aren’t clear, support is inadequate, or feedback loops are broken. Good leadership fixes systems....
Anyone else notice ENGINE isn’t mentioned here? You know, the ACTUAL reason for the reorg? I’d bet my whole RnA budget this is simply some proactive misdirection away from off shoring to keep a certain nationalist president from getting mad…
This article (if you believe it) just points a giant finger back at management. Tone starts at the top. SO now be prepared for the SLT and all the LT's to be giant d1-kh3ads.
Maybe try some directness and honesty with yourself.
And yet, the reason I suspect I don't have a job is because I (in my opinion, respectfully) put correctness, directness and integrity ahead of being nice and saying what wanted to be heard.
What an absolute joke of an article.
MW is at the helm for the entire damn time.
@ez Promotion and getting to the next PSG is difficult, depending on who your supervisor is. Some supervisors come from difficult backgrounds, and don't see why you need to do better than them. I had a Venezuelan supervisor who had no interest in improving my PSG. Just keep on doing the work, no matter how well I did.
A McKinsey audit that blames the workforce for being “too nice” misses the point. Employees don’t set the tone, leadership does. If performance is lacking, it’s not because workers are nice; it’s because goals aren’t clear, support is inadequate, or feedback loops are broken. Good leadership fixes systems, not just symptoms. People aren’t the problem; poor leadership is.
If you're going to be mean, you have to be right. Every time.
I hope MW is held publicly accountable when the next serious incident occurs. It was nauseating to read his convenient washing of his hands when discussing the platform incident. What a spineless POS.
Cost cutting isn’t leadership. Eliminating 8,000 jobs and shaving $3 billion in operating costs may please shareholders in the short run, but these decisions rarely come without a price. Dismissing thousands of employees in the name of efficiency during a time of record oil profits is tone-deaf at best and exploitative at worst. Efficiency isn’t inherently strategic if it compromises future capacity, employee trust, or safety.
@a7 MW knows the industry is shrinking with less and less oil usage going forward. He's not going to invest in places like Angola and Nigeria. He'll buy good assets to keep the company going for a while. Continue to repurchase shares to maintain the price level. He's looking out for numero uno.
@e1 I assume you left in 2021?
Too bad I retired. As a slacker I never made it past 22. But as a total brownnoser and schmoozer who knows? The sky is blue and I might have made it to at least a 23 maybe 24.
Can someone post the article
So let me get this straight, we went from competent and polite to incompetent and a di-khead. Got it.
We are already pretty lean in terms of leadership competency. And yes, being meaner is a great way to cover it up 🤣. This all makes sense now.
@dg+1k1nxn2f7 Funny how things haven’t changed—we were struggling under the old ranking system, and we’re still struggling now for different reasons. That so-called “glorious upper echelon” was really just a creation of the old ranking framework. The hard truth? performance is irrelevant regardless of ranking system - loudest voice gets the cheese. And honestly, did we ever have a clear idea of what we were even aiming for? This org has only made things murkier.
Nice!, Leaner and Meaner, probably the sound advice from a Consultancy Chatbot. being leaner and meaner doesn't change the fact that we messed up at organically growing and finding new, economically viable reserves. Let's just be mean and fire the dude that delivered us the bad news of no reserves - djt style.
I’d suggest starting with her direct reports. None of them seem to be held to any meaningful standards. They're just collecting salaries without delivering measurable results. EMC is no different; a total drain on resources. The team is stacked with DEI hires, and it shows. The mess Payne left behind is staggering. People often say you can judge someone by the legacy they leave. If that's true, then his legacy speaks volumes, and it's nothing short of embarrassing. Safety in a total freefall. Environmental cleanup behind. Oh well, I guess it is now the new standard.
nicer to shareholders
meaner to employees
During MW's tenure, the performance ranking system moved away from being results focused to be more centered "being nice to everyone", We Lead cr-p. Now he is whining about the monster that he created. Could he be any more incompetent.
@aw This!
“Stop being so nice to each other” - coming from the execs that won’t even acknowledge the CES results. Tone deaf hypocrisy.
@aa yea HSE VP… what has she done.
I could deal with meaner if the middle managers and above weren’t so incompetent.
Instead they’ll get a license to be di-ks, but still don’t know what they’re talking about, and all of the actual doers still have to shut up and take it or risk being rated as Expects More by some new, meaner manager who thinks that you can’t handle their new directness when you question their competency.
If managers were competent and meaner, I’d at least respect them and they’d have credibility when coming down on their team
“Stop being so nice to each other” - coming from the execs that won’t even acknowledge the CES results. Tone deaf hypocrisy.
We need to bring back some of the old guard to get HSE and Environmental Remediation back on track. This current team is not even the B or C team. They are definitely the D team. I am in Midland and when I talk to these people, all they have been are desk jockeys. No field experience what so ever.
Lost all respect for WSJ with that puff piece. What exactly has tough guy MW done? Probably the most important growth metric of an oil company, the reserve replacement ratio, is in the gutter since he took over. That alone makes him a failure. Not to mention we are trailing our peers in TSR. Our safety record is a complete disaster under his leadership. His crowning achievement is overpaying for Hess and closing the deal over a year late. And the WSJ praises him for pushing Direct, Decisive, and Accountable. LMAO!
There’s a world of difference between meaner, and competent.
The rendition was spot on