Unfortunately, it seems to me that this is not an exception but a rule in this company - managerial positions are filled with mostly completely wrong people. Why is that so?
Instead of inspiring, encouraging everyone's individual growth, they demotivate and drive people out of this company. It is completely out of control, every week one of my colleagues leaves, not necessarily because of the company, but primarily because of a bad manager.
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The Raleigh executive leadership is especially woeful, with A players in the area well aware of the toxicity that permeates certain fiefdoms within the organization.
+1 on the culture decline, especially in Raleigh teams. The Citrix core values and ‘great place to work’ is only in pamphlets and slides, while toxicity have overtaken all aspects at ground level.
Nothing wrong with having internal people climbing the ranks.
The problem is the directions you give them. Some of my best managers and worst have been internal.
But the bad become ugly with the SAP leadership they brought in. They value the whipping more than the carrots, and micromanaging is encouraged.
This means all good managers have slowly been leaving while the psycho's are flourishing....and those are the once you have seen the last 12-24months.
Those are still here.
Citrix needs a proper leadership cleansing....and indeed, people can change and become better leaders with the right directions and tools, however the trust is broken. Too late to fix.
HR leadership should also take responsibility for the decline, they have not ensured the companies values prior and current have been fulfilled. They have allowed bad managers to continue with bad management and not listening to the employee NPS.
Internally grown citrite managers who have no experience outside of Citrix yields a mgmt workforce that is unaware on how to properly manage people
They need experience outside of Citrix. This is especially true in the TPM org, not just with TPM managers but those 15 yr TPMs that are clueless
This is why Citrix became irrelevant during a worldwide stay at home order. Yes, the top leaders are a main reason Citrix failed but the responsibility is at all levels. The culture at Citrix is one of the worst in the industry and all managers are responsible. Citrix managers think tactics to motivate employees are to use scare tactics and a toxic work environment. Citrix needs to improve inside the company before profits will follow.
Unfortunately the incompetency is all the way up to the VPs and SVPs. They save each other’s back and no one is there to hold them accountable.
Otherwise how can you explain many keeping their job with the worst outcomes in years for the business, product and people retention?
A few are even enjoying rapid promotions with zero outcomes when the company is dying…for what?