For all of the talk of stopping anti digital things at fidelity, it seems like we keep putting leaders like RD, BM, EE, MG, MS, RS etc into these roles that will lead the company from the mess they all created. That coupled with all of the infighting and lack of leadership has associates demoralized and exhausted. With that much ego and short term thinking, round and round we go. Eventually I hope someone wakes up and sees it’s 2023.
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Pi tech seems the most in trouble. New CIO is only talking about decom and TLM, but seems to have no strategy for the future
it's because new leaders don't understand the new tech and how it can be utilized.
It's not just the tech leadership that is rotten. Most business leaders in PI and WI have no clue what they are doing. Failing up is rampant. Leaders pushed up have a very operational bend. That's fine, but most can't translate that into 'strategy', which they confuse with 'planning' and call the whole thing 'strategic planning'. They can't motivate or rally people. They can't paint a picture of the future that can get people excited. The leadership model is about keeping the lights on and coercion to do things the way we did it 20 years ago. So get back to the office x number of days since that's correlated to the success of the past. That is exactly why it was working before, right? Correlation and causation are the same, right? Keep the clown car going, and keep hoping things will work out.
Better 20 years ago has a very MFGA feel to it.
I haven't been around here that long. It's a strange culture. Abby's team don't seem to work well, it seems like they are against each other so they win for themselves. There are nonstop references to people that left 10 years ago as if they did it right. After working for 5 big companies, this is not what you would expect for such a successful company.
It was better 20 years ago.