Nike needs to remove all the consultant speak, 100 page decks that go nowhere, woke, DEI, bad management etc etc and go back to prioritising brilliance, innovation and speed where ever or whomever it comes from. Back the American dream at its best. Incredible how leadership in the company has fallen off the cliff followed by the share price. Lets go back to basics.
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Stop hiring brainless MBA cronies and actually put people in place who know the industry, are good people leaders, and care about the company.
Actually, it was white men who damn near burned Nike to the ground...but yeah lets blame DEI.
@rw+1 take a break and read the room.
Nike needs to end DEI (Didn’t Earn It) and stop discriminating against white people AND maybe they can start appealing to a consumer that doesn’t loot to get their kicks. Earn back those paying customers.
Instead of worrying about h1-b workers, worry about ACN.
There are more ACN contractors working in Nike than H1-B.
Plus ACN has large numbers outside US, also working on Nike projects.
checkout the power of ACN...
https://www.msn.com/en-us/money/companies/the-world-s-largest-shadow-employer-accenture/vi-AA1ttWZ9
Yes, let's stop hiring H1B visa holders. There are plenty of American citizens looking for jobs. This company is definitely not hiring the best and brightest with H1Bs.
Footwear design is the same in terms of duplication of management and too many layers.
There are many Multiple layers of management and then tiny small teams of designers doing the work.
To many leaders “leading”!!!
Not enough people to do the work.
Talk about a top heavy org!!!!!
It continues to be a recipe for designers to get burnt out and leave.
Nike is no longer a destination for designers to want to come too, it’s a joke.
I don’t know any designers who like the place nike has turned into.
Such a shame…… and the people who are responsible are still at the top, they just moved seats to other top jobs! Protecting themselves while the people below them in their org are miserable.
Its a disgrace.
The worst part of it is change isn’t coming…. Just more of the same strategy wrapped in new clothes with new buzzwords pretending to be visionary……..it’s not.
If you work for someone who can’t tell you the difference between sell-in and sell-through, but who provides multiple rounds of feedback regarding who the “persona” is for a CSR deck I have bad news for you.
@fj+1jhd7tqpe I see a friend in GT here!!!! My VP also blames Bain instead of fixing the mess
Co-sign 1000 times
“Start by getting rid of the bs storytelling PPT warriors who think their job is done once they’ve created and presented a flashy deck…… You know, those people who have no knowledge or interest in sports or sneakers and just throw around consultant-like phrases and buzzwords acting like they’re in the know.
The layoffs did not remove all layers. In my org, we have 3 directors reporting to a director. SrD-->VP-->VP and there are other teams with similar reporting structure.
The narrative going around that Bain and C-levels made decisions and most leaders didn't have an input is a l1e. Everyone who was impacted in our org, had voiced their concerns about the bias and other n0n-s3nse , were impacted.
Don't buy the BS that Bain decided with no input from VPs.
The incompetent, br0wn nosers, a$$-lick3rs stick together and protect each other.
Layers are meaningless if the company can’t make a decent trail running shoe. They ignored the fastest growing market segment in their literal backyard. They deserve to fail.
Yeah, I am sure Nike didn't do enough layoffs to get rid of layers already.
And if course, no layoffs thread is complete without a rant against DEI by a owner of a Platinum Victim Card - White Edition.
Wasnt that the intent behind the last reorg and the 200 others before that? 😅
Start by getting rid of the bs storytelling PPT warriors who think their job is done once they’ve created and presented a flashy deck…… You know, those people who have no knowledge or interest in sports or sneakers and just throw around consultant-like phrases and buzzwords acting like they’re in the know.