Any key takeaways folks heard?
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You can kindly send the SRA to our Nigerian bank accounts (just the people with red ball caps) then we promise to send 10 million eggs to your American bank account. Thank you, Big Chief.
No need for the SRA, I will just ask Rich to reprint and give out more Make Deep Water Great Again hats.
While we're at it adding more DEI will put oil in the pipes as you say.
Good idea. Calling it GOA rather than GOM will put that oil in the pipes just like it lowered egg prices. Amazing strategic leadership! How can I send you an SRA?!?!?
Can we start calling it GOA Gulf of America instead of GOM? Don't cha wanna make deep water great again?
“between evil and the devil”…..? Surely you don’t mean our favorite One GOM Family?
I don't think Rich is particularly problematic. I believe some of his direct reports and second level reports are somewhere between evil and the devil if we're being kind.
I think we could do a lot worse in Shell than Rich and his LT.
Imagine if employees could vote confidence or no confidence in the leadership. Would anybody be left?
That's why the system overly favors leadership. Rich is here to stay even if you're disgruntled.
Only stupid people would work at a company like Shell so this makes sense
tick tock, on the clock, ricks job is on the chopping block
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it isn't enough to be good at your job, you also have to look good and get along too
Rich came across very disconnected from the frontline. His head is in the clouds and if I had to guess, his time in this role is ticking
There are certain characteristics one must polish and incorporate into their work persona if you want to rise in rank at Shell. Unfortunately, these are the same qualities you’d see in a Stepford Wife. Disingenuous and incapable of breaking the varnished exterior to actually be a relatable, inspiring leader. “Being real” is not a requirement.
Stay sharp, execute efficiently, and adapt when necessary.
Please don't think DEI is just about race. It is also about gender and alternate lifestyles. The biggest beneficiaries are women. Ask if there is a goal on Senior leaders, EC-2, and EC-1, GPA's about attaining a certain fraction of women in senior leadership.
DEI will be remembered as the d-mbest trend in the history of business
it’s morally right to promote the incompetent because someone’s ancestors were je-ks. also, we judge who their ancestors were based purely on skin tone, not statistics or fact checking. but - you aren’t allowed to use skin tone
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Rich seems to be a good guy, but deliberately surrounds himself with flying monkeys. ...like the kind in the old version of the Wizard of Oz not the recent woke kind... The fact that he lets them continue makes me wonder about if he has a facade or if that is really him down to his core.
For sure. The rent-a-mob should leave after decent and hard working people give them the one-finger salute. Total losers.
Original poster was right. Bootlicker showed up right on schedule. Take your one-finger salute and get outta here.
Rich is a decent, humble, and practical leader. No doubt the rent-a-mob losers will come after him. He can’t give them the one-finger salute they deserve but others can.
- Safety is most important, still
- DEI should be inherent not programmed...but the programming isn't going anywhere.
- Dont let stability of surviving layoffs lead to complacency, let it lead to efficient execution...and they aren't over (duh)
- The targets that they set last year haven't mutated.
- There is a 150k boe/d management adjustment to our promises bc of delivery credibility in the past. Keep BOE/d above 800k in DW.
- Ask good questions (even though some aren't answered)...like the question "what new things have we learned from the adjust earning being half of exxons?" The response frome leadership wasn't great, but management is either simple or they have to keep it simple...probably
- Don't ask stupid questions like merging with BP, especially when you should know better they can't be answered until later. Or stupid questions like, why can't the boe/d management adjustments be up rather than down when in the presentation it's explained why it's down...
- Deliver on your strategy, if early indicators show strategy should change...change. be cognizant of those indicators. If you don't change, still deliver on your strategy.
This may summon some bootlickers, but key takeaway is that ol’ Rich isn’t terribly in touch with the common man or inspiring as a leader.