Thread regarding Dell Inc. layoffs

I was in a management position before coming to Dell. Creating a sense of urgency to increase the productivity of a team is a valuable tool. Like any tool though it can be, and often is, misused. Creating artificial crises will at best burnout your team. At worst you will lose all credibility if/when the team realizes what you're doing and then not step up when a real crisis hits.

@m5 Or to wipe ypue backside because dell is too cheap to make sure there's TP in the office bathrooms.

.... make one... yeah right... crisis = WFR thousands of people and impact people's livelihood. What a lot of BS... i have a copy of MD's book. I drank the cool aid and thought there was a lot of sincerity and care to employees. I was wrong. Wont be even giving away the book. Best use of lighting fires.

One of the biggest craploads sold by consultants during the 80s was “Create a sense of urgency” and MD is just parroting this. With the economy the way it is bosses are back in control - for now.

Constant crisis create a culture of burnout, passing, the buck, and backstabbing. Oh wait. THat’s what we have now.

Mike missed the plot. Create a satisfying culture, where people respect their leadership and create sense of urgency.

I don’t care how much money this guy has, he’s an uneducated monkey who is more of an irrelevant con than anything.

And this is why Dell su-ks as a company and his leadership is terrible. I have no respect for any of them. MIke, Jeff, Arthur. I mean, why would I?

Quality suffers when your pawns are running around like chickens with their head cut off.

We had a "leader" at my previous job that would do this. She only lasted about 6 months. All the pressure to increase the volume of work completed lead to an exponential increase in mistakes. The 2 quarters she was running the show have the 2 lowest quarterly profit margins on record for a company that has been around since 1947.

This might be effective in the US, since it's historically a country that can convert pressure and urgency into positive changes. But that's not the same for the rest of the world; in several cultures (like your average European one) that would even create an opposite reaction and make customers bounce you back.
How can you be a leader of a multinational company if you fail to grasp a trivial concept like cultural differences?

JC “feels the pressure” to keep wearing those odd Bro shirts ….

MD is literally JUST the face of dell. He doesn't do jack cr@p though. It's JC who runs the show and boy has he run it into the ground.

He hasn't been relevant in over a decade.
but, yeah, total tool

What a piece of work