Nothing like an outside hire to reassure everyone that if they work hard, put in the time, and drink the blue/red Koolaid you’ll be rewarded in the end. What an insensitive thing to do at a time where everyone is wondering if the time and effort given to the company was worth it.
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OP: you’re an example of why internal promotions to the ELT is a bad strategy.
If you are not seeing the signs of what culture change means, you have your eyes closed. The last 2 leaders did NOT grow up in government affairs so why is this one any different? Have you seen the resume? Trade (timely), deep relationships inside the government, UPS (supply chain), she has years of experience and likely her last gig - so she does not have to worry about climbing up but rather doing the job. I think this one is a winner.
For decades, we have left the job of VP Corp Affairs to a defrocked BU leader or other former engineer. Such people are completely unprepared for corp affairs work and the company suffered as a result with disastrous press and government relations. I sent an email complaining to the cloth-eared CEO once and was told to support our management better as they are doing good work and no criticism was allowed.
Y’all not going to like this reorg. MN is running this ship. EB, BN, AW,CN, JG are the chosen ones on what will be a much smaller exec team.
We obviously need new blood in the ELT.. This is a start....
A breathe of fresh air.
Seems to be a deliberate trend…several “retirements” of top leaders followed by an external CIO hire and now an external VP Corp Affairs hire. Could the board actually be sending a message to the highest levels of leadership that their playbook needs a refresh?
We need external cfo, and external ceo. MN and eb need to go when mw retires
These are the signs of "culture" change. Good on MW the corporation needs some new (external) blood at the top.