After the most recent planning town hall, I’ve never felt more unmotivated working for 3M. SVP of planning is woefully under-qualified to be leading this global organization. The future is NOT bright at 3M with him in charge.
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Why are you surprised? He came from BCG ... a second tier consulting shop! Want to guess which firm did Advance 3M? lol
At least Tireman had some raucous townhalls. The faux anger he showed when people complained about the lack of spending on safety after people were crushed in machines because of faulty safeguards, as if anyone wanted to climb into a moving machine! Plus, who could forget the real anger he showed when asked about Dom? The firewall comment was as funny as a good comedian bringing the house with a great one-liner.
@aw he is directly responsible for the terrible service of 2024 and first half of 2025 which was a result of his decisions. There is no question about it. He does not understand the consequences of his decisions.
Is that the professional strategy consultant that’s been on the job less than a year and never worked for a company that actually makes things? Isn’t the MBA good enough experience?
@g0 tireman was like a mad demented scientist working on warped fantasies in a padded room laboratory. Somehow cutting gobs of MTE roles and other technical resources would improve innovation and customer service (OTIF) and drastically cut costs. Well he was right on the latter part. BB sent him packing after the conference call where he whined about terrible OTIF and losing gobs of customers to the opposition.
How he got a 4 million dollar bonus plus probably 5 or million to leave as an April Fools joke is mind-blowing. Throw in the shenanigans with Kearney.
I suspect the new person is having regrets about taking this position and is punch drunk during Q and A during townhalls.
Seriously, they always told us it was difficult to turn around a large ship, which was Mother Mining.
Except that Tireman left the ship burning and sinking towards the Mariana trench. So hopefully the new SVP has a plan to at least stop the sinking, so that the rest can continue to fight the fire without drowning.
This thread is comical. What is it with 3Mers? Trash people because they’re not part of the old school and then deny results. Then remind us things were great 30 years ago…
@cy couldn’t agree more. By far, the worst leader I have ever had the misfortune to work with. Forget data and analytics, just state a problem, take some action and hey presto, you have a result. How did he ever end up in that job.
Not sure if the SVP is struggling because of the 5-alarm fire Tireman left after his disastrous overpaid tenure. 3M cut costs so deeply, you can't run a company without the human brainpower needed to meet customer needs. Perhaps the person is unqualified, but compared to a guy with experience at Starbucks and TireHub coming in to run a complex supply chain, I'm inclined to give him a bit more time. Besides, BB always likes to find fresh scapegoats when he again has to explain another miss in some business segment.
Record high service.
Inventory improving Q on Q.
What’s your problem? Oh I know. He’s not a 30 year veteran…that tells you everything.
@OP what happened?