How are we still trying to figure out how to do things other companies with fewer resources figured out years ago?
I hear so many L7+ leaders from stores, supply chain, digital, etc. talk about things that are already close to irrelevance.
I’ve only been at Target for a couple of years, but from the outside it didn’t seem this bad. Seriously, how did we get here?
@jp Holy cr-p you beat me to it! So glad I don’t have to listen to that cr-p anymore. Good riddance.
@hx Thank goodness I no longer have to listen to another leader talk about “leaning in”. And don’t get me started on the annoying upspeak!!!
Target gets rid of very qualified & confident TMs and promotes to leadership roles people who continuously sound unconfident and insecure and risk averse. End of rant!
@bs the personality type that gets promoted about 80% of the time to L7 and above are uptalkers (HRT) and bullsh!tters.
@ev the type of person who vomits corporate jargon in free-associated monologues.
@e7 TGT Merch and Design Leaders have always been risk averse and get ansy when something is the color yellow or when they don’t see themselves using a product concept (as if we are designing for Millennials only?) so they shoot it down. Good riddance to that place.
The old guard wanted the same type of people- a mono culture. People who are reliably predictable.
We’re in the middle of innovation week in tech. The number of great ideas that never make it to production is depressing.
Product is mostly to blame. All talk, no walk.
Most US-based engineers and many designers I've chatted with want to do great work, but are left out of the key decisions.
Target will be the next K Mart………it may take a while, but well on the way to irrelevance.
I left recently because of this. We were always a little slower than others to market, but we used to put out an objectively better product. The last five years have not only seen Target get slower, but go from a forward-thinking, customer-centered brand that offered good value, to a stale retail dinosaur.
There really is a personality type that gets promoted at Target. I've talked with family about it and tried to explain it, but it is hard to describe that personality to someone who is not there to see it..
A lot of L7s and above get promoted because of who they have GTKYs with and if they have the right Target personality type, not relevant experience or competence. You have people running orgs at TGT who wouldn’t get interviews at other companies for equivalent roles.