Can anybody even remember when that happened?
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Bertolini would just bully people around to sell his kayfabe bit that skiiing into a tree made him smarter and more badass than anyone else in the room. You gotta go back to Rowe if you are talking about Aetna. CVS was still a mobbed-up hallmark cards meets 7/11 with some pharmacies and a shoe store chain at that time.
I loathe this company and upper management
Bertolini.
The Golden Age of getting stuff done.
@f1 CVS would NEVER have a town hall like that.
Last useful town halls were with Bertolini, who would sit up there and answer the really tough questions. Most of them came from within the room, and were being asked by people who weren't planted in the audience to ask stupid sh!t, just so the President/CEO can take the entire Q&A session to answer, in depth, this one stupid, planted, question that nobody cares about. Then just like that, they're all out of time for Q&A. So yah, the last useful one was definitely when Bertolini was here.
Town halls are just corporate pep rallies with pre-screened softball questions. And when an actual real tough question is asked, it is glossed over and explained away. It's all just a dog and pony show, so executives can pat themselves on the back while making it look like they care, when in reality they don't care about employees.