You approval rating is climbing with each sweep of your broom as you clean house! Thank you!!
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There was much debate on the CBS hire. She was a major bust. Eventually RD pushed to hire her. And at less than 17 the architect of this demise is still going. Unbelievable.
Last poster - have you watched The Toy Box on ABC? It was unwatchable and only kept dropping in ratings after each week. She was behind that.
Did you read about Amy Schumer being given the lead in the Barbie movie? CBS was behind that.
Did you see the failure of Bob the Builder? While she wasn't to blame for it (it was all Sid), she didn't act fast enough to change the distribution (which is why it never gained momentum).
Like so many executives - she moved too slow and did not make a big enough difference. Look, it's a public company and it's valued every 3 months on quarterly performance. If you can't come up with a plan to make things better in 3 months, and show steady, meaningful progress each quarter afterward, then don't come work here! We need professionals who will DO SOMETHING and so far we haven't had any. All we had is big mouths who spout off useless, unintelligible rhetoric and then we let them stay here!
If kids just want toys of what they feel are interesting stories told to them from a variety of media, then why was CBS let go? Was she just not making that happen?
PREACH!
Hey, last poster - it doesn't take a rocket scientist to just look at the numbers and see that the end is near, or are you a designer and just interested in sticking your head in the sand.
It's not fear mongering - it's the truth. Just look at the stock. Did it go up when M-Go announced her re-hashed plan of the future? No. Did it go up when SL, DA, GZ all got fired? No. Care to even contemplate why? It's because where once there was a dominance in "fashion dolls" there is now nothing left except a declining and completely passé Barbie brand. Girls don't even want to change out fashions on a doll anymore - they just want toys of what they feel are interesting stories told to them from a variety of media.
Hasbro has Disney Princesses and Frozen - those numbers are down, too - but the majority of it is stable. But Hasbro now has it for 9 more years and not Mattel. Monster High? Gone. Why? Because it was a trend that we rode on and then over shipped to make up for Barbie's decline. Ever After High? It never happened. Why? Because it wasn't a trend and we pushed it on the consumer who didn't want it.
Fear mongering - I wish it were. But the fact is Mattel is a company that's best days are behind it and the shareholders will not wait even 3 years for a miracle of a turnaround to happen. They will demand their money, force the Board out and sell the company. When defeat is inevitable, put your feet up, relax and stare into the abyss. It's just not that bad on the other side where there's freedom and happiness.
You must get your jollies trying to get others to experience what happened to you when you got let go.
No one has any answers to what's going to happen at Mattel. That's including you and your love of fear mongering. Do you work at Lanard or something after they let you go?
since the slaying of the great white whale its only a matter of time before the velvet maffia is taken down and we can finally get on a path towards success. the truly outdated, out of touch upper management is heading towards the door, they're just too clueless to realize it. buh-bye you useless old queens! your days are numbered!!
They have been close to letting MS go for years. Now his backers are gone or lost credibility. Way overpaid. A contributor to the demise of Mattel. Another no accountability survivor.
Scoodman, Msnore more useless and paid too much for doing nothing execs. Absolutely no value add. Only more layers that slow everything down.
MShore has been job hunting for years. MGo should cut his line now. Let him go. What DOES he do other than s--- up to the almighty JChugg?
MShore soothsayer to the execs, purveyor of bs on play, oracle to the stars and high priest of the hocus pocus of insights - WHY is this guy still lurking?
The charter of that group needs to be rewritten from the cover my a$$ mentality to actual learning and leveraging play behavior. Otherwise spare me the charts that you've pulled from someone else's statistical analysis telling us all that tablets and digital is here, we have kids and we all know that. What happened to your prediction on another rainbow loom? I got news for you MS, no KID, and I repeat NO KID likes stem toys when it's next to cool sh!t. So just stop that.
In the meantime this guy seems to have everybody fooled that just because he can pull together past data and point to missed opportunities like some kind of reverse Nostradamus, he is some kind of seer to a future generation.
Talk about a snake oil salesman.
MGo, hint: there's another high profile pos that adds nothing to the bottom line.
Margaret is doing what obviously needs to be done. Amazing how fresh eyes can spot the elephants in the room quickly. Chopping at the top is easy, and there is lots more to be done (every VP who's been at Mattel over 10 years, for starters, they steered us into this mess). But before we hail her as the savior of Mattel, we need to see some aggressive positive internal changes. Culture changes, HR changes, people changes. The way Mattel treats people is terrible. Fear runs rampant through the organization. Managers and directors need to fear and respect their employees. Margaret, do NEW 360s on everyone, director and up, and have an outside company review them and make chopping recommendations.
Fascinating that the SL thread was deleted. The rude personal insults are bs but she clearly had issues. What can Management LEARN from this rather than try to sweep it under the carpet? How you treat your employees matters. People leave bad Managers not companies. Look at those Managers with the largest number of people who have resigned under them and sweep the broom in that direction!
1vzc, it's not just names, any personal identifiable information is not allowed. Personal insults not allowed either.
And RD is still around. The shares are ready to fall below 18, bad hires, didn't move on bad leaders, no innovation, Cars screw-up, AG disaster, promised a winning 2017 and missed. What's up with this dude not being accountable.
isn't it odd that anything mentioning the unlikeable canadian gets deleted? it's not like she's being mentioned by name.
Weren't there several new VP's in CBS's org? What will happen to them?
She was interviewing.
Would have been nice to ax her before she spent the money on her boondoggle trip to Cannes.
Unfortunately her failure will have a negative consequence for the group. Expect some serious cuts.
what f-ing creativity?!?
CBS was stifling the creativity of her department.
the chuggernaut!
Chugg Chugg Chugg
Glad the CBS experiment ended. A lot of people and no value to the company. Never understood the design of the organization and why she was qualified to be the head.
If RD and The Chugger are next things will be cleared for a new direction.
Nice move. What a nothing. She was a total fake. Another one of the bad RD and RG hires.
CBS gone. Watch out content wannabes. Your incompetence and mediocrity will no longer have cover.
Agree 100%