How does Dell realistically fix the culture?
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Listen to the people not other billionaires
The only way the culture will be fixed is if it's acquired by a company with a better culture.
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Everyone I know that came from EMC works 50 and 60 hours a week, often works on holidays and weekends and pushes everybody else to do the same.
- Dell admits it has a culture problem; 2. Dell believes it can restore itself and create a healthy culture; 3. Decide to create a healthy culture; 4. Bring in a third party company to create a REAL 'Tell Dell" that is completely anonymous with relevant, non-leading questions to bring in the hard answers from real employees that choose to answer it about current culture and what culture Dell should have AND KEEP AN OPEN MIND; 5. The third party company tells ALL the employees the ugly findings of the questionnaire; 6. Dell must be willing to change the culture based upon the findings; 7. Dell institutes the necessary changes; 8. Dell hires another anonymous third-party company to conduct a fact-finding mission to see how successful the changes have been to the company and its employees. 9. Lather, rinse and repeat. Personal Disclosure ... I still play the Lottery and I live in a fantasy world that I will win the big jackpot.
Dont need to worry about culture when the goal is headcount reduction.
Adopt the culture we had at EMC (Which before the buyout was by far a more successful company than Dell) instead of embarking on a crusade to stamp it out.
Culture starts at the top. Attitude is a reflection of leadership. Maybe the leaders need to take some of the courses they force us to take?
Dell was an amalgam of cultures from its earliest years bc external executives were hired to scale the business. Dell was about performance, about getting it done, not how y'all feeling. IMO the opportunity was lost in those infant years.
What's wrong with it? I think it's great.
Clean house at the top. Let MD walk away, he did create thousands of jobs and a successful company. But board needs to cleanup and reaffirm the company’s misssion.
Cannot be fixed. Too many fired and the remaining people can’t do everyone’s job. Customers can see through the BS and are jumping ship.
Dell culture died when having to choose between remote and hybrid a year ago. It's all ball bearings going forward.
Nice people finish last. Bullies finish first and always win. That is the culture
Stop rewarding the bullies.
Fire Jeff Clarke and Bill Scannell for starters.