Since wimpy basketball analogues are the way he apparently communicates: Lip-Bu Tan lost the locker room when he blamed the employee base for Intel’s current state as the reason for RTO, instead of any attempt at articulating a consistent strategy for…the company, layoffs, the composition of his executive team.
Who wants to work for a guy who’s been around long enough to know the company’s history, but doesn’t even have the spine to point the finger across the desk at his C-suite colleagues? Tough talk is easy when you’re talking down.
He wants RTO, fine, others are doing it too. He wants to lay people off, that’s the macro environment we’re in - others are doing it too.
But instead of showing up with a strategy, he opens a blame-shifting campaign against employees for MASSIVE misses like iPhone, EUV, 5N4Y, and AI. Those were strategic errors by the executive team.
Repeatedly citing his time playing in a Singaporean rec league 50 years ago doesn’t make him more relatable, it makes him cringeworthy because you can only imagine how many times that broke record has been spun.
Another CEO, another unique and differentiated way of doing sück. Intel keeps innovating, alright.