Wall Street Journal just reported that Crotonville is for sale. The link is on a paywall, so not posted. Where will our talent come from now? Oh, woe is me!
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The last audit by CAS posed the following question
1/ sell crotonville and let cows wander the are and spew methane
Or
2/ keep it and have worthless highly paid id--t GE executives bloviate about the latest doomed to fail management fad to an audience of bobble heads?
Looks like they made the right choice….for once
Spelling correction...it's "cRottenVile" cause nothing good came out of that place like the famed "Success Theatre" Immelt demanded and all his a**kissers emulated down the chain. It was the birthplace of the "pivot"...or spin bad news like it's good news.
3cqv+1jgv5IfO, agree, plus when management’s workforce is organized, their leadership has to be organized as well.
But really, what can you learn in two weeks anyway? The Academy was just a place to punch your ticket and move forward up the ladder. IMO, the place added little value to the company and did not provide any superior knowledge. Good riddance!
https://www.ge.com/news/reports/to-all-who-have-walked-the-halls-of-crotonville
GE's spin on the sale of the Crotonville campus. Be sure to have tissues handy! 😭
Closing GE’s management and leadership school? Students must have skipped school and played around during class time.
I hope Jack gets to watch from he-l as it gets sold and demolished.
Obviously, Crotonville did not teach Corporate Financing very well.
More GE leaving NY!! I'm so sure noting else will leave NY!!!
It's okay, they're also shuttering the shiny new Boston HQ. https://www.bostonglobe.com/2022/10/18/business/ge-scales-back-fort-point-plans-vacate-hq-next-year-smaller-office-space/
Too little, too late .
"The first is our strong belief that spending more time learning at genba (closest to where the work is done, i.e. at our sites and on our manufacturing floors) is the best way to learn lean."
Your welcome to come to our site and show us how to get some of these lazy slobs HR has hired out of their chairs and get some, er rather, any work done. You can spew as many Japanese words out of your mouth as you like, but you might also need to bring a crow bar to pry the rolls of fat out of the seats.
Can Jason from Lical 301 save us?
Better late than never. Good job.
The famed lobotomy lab is on the block… Jack must be rolling over in his grave. Should have happened years ago! This lever pulling won’t save all three companies, the question is, which one will be sacrificed?
They waited too long. These locations were extremely expensive and not used effectively. Unfortunately they waited to the 11th hour to make this needed change.
STOP, with the doom and gloom! It’s not as bad as all that. Yes, the Management Academy is closing but GE’s great leaders will now come from the robotics factory just down the street. This is the same factory that has been producing our nameless HR leaders for well over a decade.
Maybe I'll buy it. I'm rich!!
This is too funny. They are going to shrink Boston as well. Years from now, many will look back at this day as being the moment when the last subtle warning was made. The next one will be directly in your face and impossible to ignore. Don't expect people to feel sorry for any of you.
Blame it on lean. Not the ineffectiveness of the program. The company spin:
https://www.ge.com/news/reports/to-all-who-have-walked-the-halls-of-crotonville
Time to prune the dead wood.
https://www.wsj.com/articles/ge-puts-famed-management-academy-up-for-sale-11666113089