Is Blake at DAVOS again? Fly the corp jet over. Blow a lot of shareholder money to make him feel smart and important. He is neither but they will layoff more by year end because the anemic growth his sales team has delivered.
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@25n not so much for your comment. Disagree? Or just a poster who makes TikTok length comments. Just wondering. And layoffs? Yea. They are coming. Again. Rockwell has lost so many good people and is run by sals winks who have never used, integrated or designed their own products (Bulho is good, but he is just counting down his time).
@y1 thanks GPT worked hard on that one
Rockwell Automation’s board is structurally misaligned with the competitive realities of modern industrial automation. It is dominated by directors with backgrounds in enterprise IT, finance, consumer/retail, and generic large-company operations, while lacking meaningful representation from leaders with deep, hands-on experience in OT platforms, controls engineering, systems integration, factory automation economics, and industrial software monetization. This gap is not academic — it is a strategic liability. In an industry being reshaped by software, edge computing, integrator leverage, and OT/IT convergence, Rockwell’s board is not built to challenge entrenched business models or to force uncomfortable but necessary shifts in platform strategy, ecosystem control, and channel economics. The governance structure is optimized for risk avoidance and capital-markets comfort, not for category leadership or disruptive reinvention.
These structural weaknesses have been compounded by CEO leadership that has favored incrementalism over transformation, and by an inordinate departure of experienced, high-credibility leaders over the last four years. Rockwell has lost a meaningful number of senior executives and business leaders with deep domain knowledge in controls, software, services, and channel strategy — precisely the talent required to drive platform evolution and next-generation growth. Under Blake Moret, the company has preserved margins and delivered operational consistency, but at the cost of strategic ambition and leadership continuity. Organic growth has underperformed what should be achievable in a structurally expanding automation market, unit growth has been uneven, and strategic actions have skewed toward bolt-on acquisitions and narrative management rather than decisive platform bets. The board has enabled this trajectory by prioritizing stability over renewal, effectively insulating management from the level of pressure required to arrest talent erosion and force a bolder competitive posture. The result is a highly profitable but increasingly conservative enterprise that risks being strategically outflanked by more aggressive platform competitors — despite owning one of the strongest installed bases in industrial automation.
@rf you clearly are a tried and true Rockwell employee if you think that's a bogus link lol. We got some real technical wizards at Rockwell. "What should I Google?" I think I've heard that coming from more than a few R&D meetings.
@q5 what should I Google to find the video? If RA has taught me anything, it's to not click on any random unsolicited link. It could a Nigerian Prince or it could be Blake trying to find out what employees are using this site.
https://youtu.be/6G_ufoTdYXw?si=A16P2QiMRy8ZhKJI
I’m suing Blake and Becky. And trump
Is going to help!!!
@f2 ol' Bobby "I got a haircut so people would stop calling me a troll doll" Butternut has been M-I-A lately. He must be busy reading his latest self-help book on the power of positive thinking. He's the biggest reason nothing will change, since no one is allowed to say anything bad around him, he thinks everything is great, smh.
@bb I thought they had the mighty Bobby butternut as grand Pooba of supply chain? He is crushing it. Oh wait. He is just a sales wonk. Kind of funny the sales guy can’t fix quality either. Meanwhile. Blakey is spewing a word salad of noting at Davos. Only fools buy Rockwell stock.
I wonder if Blake will stop by the Indiana distribution center on his way home to help sort products for the latest quality crisis.
From the original post, "....because the anemic growth his sales team has delivered." To be fair, when you look at the garbage the sales team is trying to sell, is anyone really surprised with the results? Quality left the chat a while ago and it is no coincidence it started when RA hired a retread for Quality Director so he could finish the job of running Quality into the ground that he didn't get to finish the first time he was with RA.
Blake is pure genius. Overpaid for lots of acquisitions. Underinvested in core technology every year. Fired or eliminated best and most knowledgeable leaders over the last 6 years. Opened a tomato farm and building contractors in the clock tower (btw-the products produced by the 3x capital machinery in the clock tower are 25% more in cost than before the move). And grew the company a whopping 1% in 2025 even with all the onshoring in the US. He lost AP and is losing in Europe. 1% growth means no new business as price increase is 1.5 to 2% revenue growth each year on average. How is the $40k L9 selling???
Practice what you preach there Blake Moret. Go green. Fly commercial not private!!!!! Also, for the love of god, quit wasting the Rockwell $$$. We deserve that money in our pockets, not yours. We built and hold up this company, not you. https://globe.adsbexchange.com/?icao=a900e0&lat=49.494&lon=5.918&zoom=9.7&showTrace=2026-01-18
Blake is wasting a lot of RA money again on jet setting in Europe. I hope he sticks to the strict 2 drink policy and you must get food to get those drinks!!!. Blake's trip will be about another $200k trip out of the RA budget. Way to waste the companies money Blake. Blake needs to fly jet blue after how he treats his employees.............