Our experience was he came to Sydney Australia stayed in a hotel room with security goons. His keynote was a mess, like his reports
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Short, Short Man
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=l5obLmJ4O9E
@j4 Y'all reap what you sow, bi--hes
@j4 I second that sir!
@j2 lol if this forum showcases how much people care about the company then we are truly doomed. it is hate, vindictiveness, and told ya so. maybe you should stop caring to help those that do n
@j1 , if we didn't care about the company, we wouldn't be voicing our grievance here. We would have just given up, gone silent, quiet quitting or left.
We still have emotional ties to the company.
@ap sorry unless you agree with the other anonymous posters that he was a tyrant then you will be voted off the island.
irony as its best… “everyone had to agree with him, what a terrible culture…”
“… and you better agree with that.”
Anyone here actually care about the company? Or only pointing out everything that’s wrong? So sad. This is #everyforum
Gee...Mark must be really hated if he need security guards. He is not even that well known.
The best way to describe Mark is to think of him as our own Kim Jong-un. As long as you agreed with him, and you did exactly as he asked, when he asked, how he asked, that he will support you and help you grow. Sandy is the perfect example of the model.
If you dare challenge him, didn’t agree with him or didn’t act as quickly as he thought you should, then you will be became a marked man and were laid off at the next available opportunity.
He did not like to socialize with any employees outside of the ELT unless he was absolutely forced. The only time he socialize the employees was because Sandy told him he needed to.
Remember that Mark stayed in hotels employees were not allowed to stay in. He travelled in a private car with security. He travelled in a private plane.
Again, think of him as OpenText’s supreme leader.
@ap The ELT will be replaced. There will not be an ELT. There will be leaders that the new CEO will bring in and the current culture will be replaced. OT culture was not unknown to the Board. They are a public entity and received significant information from employees and analysts an customers. Not one of Mark's direct reports challenged him as is functional in all reporting relationships for a successful company. The board and the new CEO are well aware of the dynamic that existed- butt kissing. People like Sandy O and Todd C will be the first to go. They failed as equally as Mark.
@ap I have to disagree. I've interacted with him many times. He is self-centered, arrogant and mean.
MB and crew replaced innovation with process and gutted product engineering. Many of the real visionaries have either left or were muted. We are left with mockingbirds setting direction. It will take a special kind of leadership to recognize the imposters up and down the management chain.
@aq nice one.
He's really short. Like, Barney Rubble short. I was surprised by his shortness.
Mark is a good person and has some good visions and insights. However, he assumed all employees would rally around his vision and do so without making product enhancements or investments to internal infrastructure. If OpenText was a start up working on a ki-ler app, being tight with money would would since there would be a potential large payoff at the end. However, AI will take a huge investment to be successful beyond pushing developers to work endlessly with sub par products. Mark did a lot of good at OpenText and is a good person, however his time is up and he need to recalibrate before taking on a new CEO role. If the ELT can pivot and think differently, they have a future here. But the acquire and hope it works out model with little to no investment will no longer work in the tech industry.