People on the leadership team and in HR clearly attended a Jack Welch seminar from 1986 because that’s how they’re running the company. Reward only the top 10%, regardless of how much talent you have on the team, deliberately reduce bonus, deliberately layoff higher cost, older people with experience and ultimately “rank and yank”.
Here’s the thing, it’s not 1985 anymore, we are in a global organization and it’s an entirely different economic structure.
Listen, you clearly have no competitive strategy other than just to keep floating. So, you not doing your jobs. But trying to go through these gyrations to layoff people off so you don’t have to payout is just so pathetic and cheap it’s embarrassing. If you want to lay people off just do it and give people severance packages. Stop being so cheap.
At the end of the day, as a leadership team, you’re the ones that are leading a company and have no strategy. You’re the ones driving it into the ground.
It’s very clear, Dell needs new leaders. If anything this is exactly where the Welch model works. As a leadership team you’re clearly over your heads. You’re not just building laptops and servers anymore and your customers expect way more than what you can give.
Time to step aside. The people in your company aren’t the problem. YOU are the problem.