Let's not trust the people that do the work. Let's let senior leaders hire expensive consultants to tell them that leadership made a mess. So many people fell forward into roles as Directors with no experience tanking teams and initiatives. Their people who were once top teams had to 'baby step' them into their own jobs and endure the thumb of 'I'm the manager' while being overwhelmed and micromanaging. Especially great when the lower performer coworker got the director role and it was explained this was to enable you as a top performer to go faster...what? The ppt problem is real these people that can't even manage now have made double the powerpoints and excel lists a reality so they can figure out their own job...JK said in a forum less managers...less work. What...not true. More junior managers that don't know their teams and top achievers that have become administrative ppt and box checkers. Already volunteered via 1:1 and given the new Director...pretty sure there was an oh sh-t moment as they have been claiming the great powerpoints and what little actual work as their own because they have no spine and don't know their job or how to lead just whine how hard their job is now. I'm not even waiting for the package declaration...I'll take the gamble in the real world
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Stacey brought in Bain to do spans and levels almost two decades ago...
... and still the bloat exceeds competition by a wide margin.
Can we ask them to explain how the he-l def met team is still around given the events that have happened. Consult and explain how that’s even possible
Intel SMG is huge. No need for 75% ot them. Overlapping duties and more Intel people in customer meetings is common.
Now that SMG has announced that senior leadership is planning to incur the cost of the consultants. The millions no doubt is being spent on the backs of those being laid off in this next round of CPM. Let's not waste it by connecting the consultants with the same tired set of Directors and VPs that made this mess. There is a real need to reach to the people that can actually work together and be adaptable to a big picture. All the politics and silos at the top is the problem...there is no time for the kingdom building that always happens when consultants show up. Stop the pi----g matches and reach into the ranks for the right people and make it clear their R&R is to the big picture first not their manager or VP. The top job is thinking differently and turning this company around. Most of the directors (not all, there are a few that are good) are stuck in the old thinking and will no doubt be protecting their kingdoms vs. doing the right things during this next CPM. Consultants and CPM should really go horizontal and directors should mostly be ignored with top initiatives and people protected.
Pretty sure this won't happen...but let's hope. McKinsey and Bain are good at basically showing senior leadership that the management and silos are the problem...the employees could tell them that too for a lot less.
I don't believe OP realizes the word salad he has tossed.
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'Bloated, too many layers, too many overlapping departments, too slow, no follow through on taking new markets...'
A prophet in his own country is despised... this explains why Intel hires hundreds of MBAs, but ignores their input and hires the consultants to say what is obvious to all.
Bloated, too many layers, too many overlapping departments, too slow, no follow through on taking new markets...
It just makes me sick to my stomach to watch the clown cars going around the main ring and every few years just hire a new ring master with a bigger hat and a fatter pay check
Yup and they always have the same analysis. I bet they just dust off from last time we paid them and repackage it and charge us again. It’s a great scam
Oh wow, Sounds like you had a bad day at work today.
Even though nothing gets better they keep using the same consultants, Bain or McKinsey.
OP... "I'll take the gamble in the real world " does this mean you are quitting to start a job search? If so, you can do a job search while you are still working so your income stream doesn't stop. If you need to, use PTO to do interviews. If you boss asks tell them you have a medical appt. which is why it is short notice and you only need half a day or a few hours. This way you get to burn your PTO on the way out the door too.
Powerful testimony