It is alarming when senior people are leaving TRP and they are leaving because the culture is dying. It started when they brought in Kimberly Johnson (COO) and it has gone progressively worse with leaders like Ramon Richards and Chris LePre. The culture has been replaced with what employees in Tech called the FNMA culture (which is where Kimberly and Ramon have come from). These leaders have no regard for associates and have brought in a culture of divisiness and toxicity. Associates are fearful of losing their jobs and so do not bring up concerns. Bringing up any concerns brands and tarnishes you as a naysayer by these leaders with fragile egos. What is concerning is that the most senior leaders at TRP are aware of this toxic culture but have done nothing about it, most likely because everyone is just too worried about negative outflows. What they need to realize is that if they don't fix the culture (and soon) they will continue to lose talent and the ship will continue to sink and by then it will be too late. There needs to be leadership changes in order to fix this issue.
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@OP "The culture has been replaced with what employees in Tech called the FNMA culture"
FNMA culture? As in "Blow yourself up and then go get a big, fat bailout from the federal government"?
I'm not sure that culture is available to Sharps and Co.
@hb You have to have a heart to send out a heartfelt message. These are the kind of people who will be congratulating each other on the number of careers ruined by moving jobs offshore. When they do try to pretend they care, it is very hollow, very forced. Bad acting. Good luck to those who remain. I am not looking backward. Remember - there is plenty that they cannot take away from you.
Leadership should be sending out a heartfelt message to all employees at least once a week — especially now — along with concrete, realistic updates on initiatives that actually give people some hope. This company has zero cohesion. "Bottom-up culture"? Give me a break. That's just a fancy way of saying there's no real leadership. The company isn't being run by the executives — it's being kept alive by the employees doing the actual work. Instead of locking themselves in a room playing consultant, they should be out there backing their people.
Great analysis. Read the FNMA posts on this board from 2016-2021 on this site. Same story. Anyone able to go from place to place and conduct this activity has no soul. I actually wonder if the hateful trolls on this board are the same architects of this He-l, angered b/c the peasants are criticizing their One Ring, their Precious Partnerships.
While IT is the one currently being demolished, all areas of the firm have been touched by layoffs for 2+ years. The outflows will continue. More cuts will need to be made, and they now have a "tried & true" blueprint for "transitioning" to their "Accenture Partners". I find when I have been on vacay a few days I feel like my old self again. When I return to this place, I become anxious and angry. I personally am looking forward to leaving this place and returning to the real world where human beings still matter.
Hiring executives from outside who tuck their tails and run at the first sign of trouble, handing them budgets to run questionable projects, and then letting them obscure their failures in a cloud of smoke — it's the height of foolishness. At this point, the damage may already be irreversible. I think it all comes down to the complacency of leadership and the complete absence of any guiding philosophy. That's what brought things to this point. If the executives don't have the talent to lead, they should step aside.