So after seeing some other posts about how leaders create artificial problems, I figured I would juice it up a notch. What is going on has many parallels to a Star Wars script. Let's start with Jimbo, member in good standing of the "good ole boys club" (played college ball, connected, etc.). Enter Billy boy, more interested in when the next TED talk is as opposed to lead the company with his surname. Jimbo talks to Billy and gets him scared that there is the impending doom about mobility services and how the company will be left behind. Billy says well Jimbo since only you and no one else who spent their life at Ford told me about this and it matches some b—s— TED talk, I am going to create a title for you called leader of Ford Mobility. Jimbo obliges because hey easy money. Jimbo has infiltrated.
Now Fields is still CEO and is aligned to the old guard (call them the Jedi but they still s—). There is head butting; Google is Field's Waterloo, and the Chariot junk follows it which I doubt he agreed with. But who is the black hand behind all of this? Jimbo. Why? Its all tied to this artificial problem of mobility. But per Sith Lord protocol, there is the rule of two: a Master and an Apprentice. So who was Jimbo going to pick? Well if you had an engineering background, that was an automatic disqualifier (sorry Raj, Joe, etc). But if you were a cunning b—s— artist who looks dumb and a bobble head on the outside, that is the ideal apprentice. Enter Farley (the resume fluffing king, acting like he had autonomy at Toyota, buhahahaha)
The stage is now set. Jimbo has Farley to help him push the knife into Fields back by bypassing him and going to Billy boy. Fields gets sacked. Now the rise of Emperor Jimbo with Darth Farley at his side. Any disagreement and the two of them use their dark side magic to banish you. Good bye Raj, Marci, Shanks, Markaby, etc. Then execute SRD (aka order 66). Joe was the last hold out, kind of like Obiwan, but Darth Farley just ran a light saber through him. Hau Thai, I give him three months. They will remove the old guard completely.
But alas Darth Farley will one day run a light saber through Emperor Jimbo. And Jimbo will land comfortably at some California villa. Who gets screwed? The storm troopers (aka the workers) when the death star get destroyed by "the companies that know what the f— they are doing alliance."
Have a good weekend everyone, hopefully this brought as big of a chuckle as watching that huddle today. JFC