Let me give you an example: I was part of a tiny team—just six of us—pulling in over $30 million a year for the company. Then one day, out of nowhere, they decided to shut us down because upper management couldn’t figure out how to manage us. I’m not even kidding. Completely ridiculous.
The very same day we were let go, Dell started bleeding big accounts—because guess what? Nobody else knew how to do what we did. Some clients jumped ship to HP, others hung on for a while before giving up. The damage was massive. The reputation hit was even worse. And it all came down to a couple of clueless project managers making short-sighted calls.
That was the day I realized something important: if our high-performing department could be axed just like that, it meant the company's priorities were totally out of sync with what the customers actually needed. And sure enough, more departments followed us down the drain.
The worst part? Those project managers never faced any consequences. No accountability. They didn’t even try to calculate how much money was lost—easily in the hundreds of millions. Total trainwreck.
I can see them making the same mistake all over again. They're still stuck in this short-term mindset—always chasing quick savings without any ability to think beyond a year or two. Long-term strategy? Completely out of their depth.
Bumping this from @b0+1k1xba1w6 for being on point.