Be alert, watch them.
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I am curious to know, that the aforementioned positions and possible lack of authority, what influence per se, would a Director have on ensuring certain individuals get hired for leadership roles, despite the following: 1) a candidate scores higher than all other interviewers.2) all interviewing managers vote on the candidate they felt is qualified for the position.
Given the only two benefactors that would ensure a candidate would get the role, does the decision fall on the director and can the director choose against logical and managerial selection due to preferential favoritism?
You assume that Directors at USAA have power. LOL! They don't. Directors are forced to be paper pushers at USAA, devoid of authority and told to carry out orders they have little say in, whether that be ratings, bonus %, merit % or anything else. The EMG team tells the Directors what to do. Granted, I'll give you that there are very few Managers or Directors at USAA who haven't drunk the Kool Aid and are down to earth enough to understand they have no power whatever and are glorified paper pushers. Most prop up the bureaucracy. When completely devoid of real power, the USAA Managers or Directors resort to the game play you have listed. At USAA, EDs, AVPs also have no power as they are middle managers who are usually talentless hacks, and super glorified paper pushers. USAA has so many layers of management to where each layer has no power. It's an archaic organizational design. Modern companies do not have so many layers. Meta just announced that they expect all middle managers to be hands on, or get fired. If USAA did the same, you'd find most managers (Directors, ED, AVP, VP) are out of work as they have no specific functional or expert talents besides being paper pushers.
Do you mean:
Always be positive (when you can't meet a deadline - it is the fault of someone else),
Never answer a question directly if it will cause a discussion you don't want to have,
Don't answer an email for the same reasons, and build your clique (whoops - I meant network),
Emphasize we just need to get creative,
Fail to plan - creating last minute deadlines,
Only pass along news if directly asked