I’ve been gone now for 2 years. In the chemical company back in 2019 “Growing With Purpose” was all the rage.
Is that still a thing or did it fizzle out like most other empty feel-good excursions?
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The Uncon VP was the best practioner of "Grow with Purpose" at La Quinta.
GwP cost the former Chemicals president his job because he acknowledged there was a culture problem and attempted to address it in little corner of the corporation. Dallas leadership squashed it (and him) like a bug because they were unwilling to accept anything other than a “top-down” approach to culture change. Translation: we aren’t the problem, you are.
DW has something growing in his pants for you.
Poor managers living if slogans without actually adding any value to the core.
The most ironic part is that "purpose" was never fully defined. The new strategy / mission statement now does have a purpose defintion... but I guess we are now lacking the growing part.
No. That is gone, as expected. Now it is "Come here and let me PIP you with purpose"
I remember 2019 well...
EMCC employees: So you want us to grow with purpose?
Management: Yes!
Employees: Can we have some capital to grow?
Management: Absolutely not!
"Growing with purpose, without capital"
The purpose we were growing for was layoffs and outsourcing. Those fools learned nothing from the downturn in 2014/2015 and just kept kingdom building.
Why keep checking on companies you left?
There is no WeAreExxonMobil anymore. The silos are reshuffled. Now it’s Product Solutions, EMTEC, LCS.
Now it’s Hunger Games: Be the First to Stab Your Neighbors in the Back
New mantra is grow to die (via PIP)
Not a thing anymore! Now it’s #WeAreExxonMobil, but it’s all the same corporate BS. Wow you want us to collaborate and innovate? How novel.