- Maurice Smith, at today's town hall.
Brain dead.
Also: he says culture is strategy.
He means culture eats strategy for breakfast.
It is a famous quote.
From a book.
You know, the things he says he does not read.
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Maybe AI devised a cruel 15 min urgent zoom invite to the calendar on friday evening to rattle everyone
@x8 Maurice is about as inspiring as a deflated balloon at the circus.
@mc Coming from Cigna, the differences in the town halls are striking. Cigna leaders were full of it too, but they at least seemed inspired and inspiring.
@mc ugh...Maurice, Jill and Manika...enough said. Three folks that would never be at the same levels at a publicly traded org...
What’s crazy is Maurice is like the least inspiring CEO I have ever seen. Actually all the leaders that spoke completely missed the opportunity to seize the moment to inspire us and speak morale and confidence into the audience after a really hard year. We acknowledge that decisions needed to be made. Here was the moment for Maurice, Jill and Manika to be inspirational leaders - true leaders to captivate us.. not with hot air and lies but with acknowledgement of who we as the employees are and what we’ve gone through. I think Maurice tried at one point to say employees were the heart of the org but that felt hollow. My 2 cents.
This is what happens when you get a CEO who has never worked anywhere else.... All he knows is HCSC so of course he want us to drink the kool-aid.
Love how they were talking about all the analysis and information they operate with when they literally bought Cigna at the worst possible time. You could not time it worse if you tried.
@bc Bowtie Bojangles is not intelligent at all. But he does like to spout the latest and greatest lingo.
Given Chicago politics have no ethics- Maurice will fit right in. We have no ethics.
He said “culture eats strategy”, but left out the last part of the quote. He’s obviously taking guidance on vacuous aphorisms from Mr Emotional Intelligence Fuller himself.
“Just say yes” is how you end up buying the dregs of Cigna.
Apparently he didn’t take the teachings of the book to heart.
Or someone just told him to toss the quote out there and he’s delusional enough to think we have a good culture.
Burnout culture. Just say yes and you may get lucky.