Bye bye, mad dog. Take your "impactful career" and shove it all the way up you-know-where!!!! Good riddance.
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Does a really matter. It's kind of like the Catholic Church. They mold their new leadership in their image. This is why you got to be so old before you can get promoted into this position.
There won't be any changes. They learn how to imitate each other. So you this guy's going to be the same or worse, my guess is run for the hills.
Good riddance! He was like the 2nd coming of JR - another axman who gutted Engines in the early and mid 90s
The bunkus strongmen always surround themselves with a cadre of lickspittles.
MM was NOT a man of accountability, he managed by being a total A Hole with zero respect for people around him. He had to make himself feel like the smartest in the room, where none of his direct reports ever made a decision for themselves. He build a leadership team primarily of young, under qualified people labeled as leaders that wouldn't dare push back on him. He accepted abusive leaders on his team and did nothing about it when he was 100% aware of it. Don't ever call this person an man of accountability. I experienced this guy first hand and he was pathetic from every standpoint.
There are several leaders selected by MM himself that should as well leave to change the tyrannical culture of cutting and slashing to make a profit in the short term. Pi----g off customers with surcharges and enforcing customers to succumb to conditions not to the interest of customers may as well spell the future demise of our clientele spread. During MM time, the only contraption that he will be known for promoting would be that UV cabin device that was too heavy and had no relevance during the COVID-19 period. Those that mooted that contraption and actually congratulated MM on the launch should be shown the door as well. TG, prepare to pack your bags on August 1st.
God I hope he was asked to leave, he has been a complete disaster since he was "leading" ISC.
Where is JC from? im not from this site
Many sat back and allowed it to carry on its antics.
My first (indirect) contact with MM was in the autumn of 2016 when he eliminated ALL the supplier support charge numbers. I had spent up to 70% of my time over the previous decade visiting casting suppliers to help them with technical issues and/or communicate progress back to HON.
Castings are long-lead complex raw material, and there aren't very many qualified and competent suppliers. Dictating that we're going to move over100 (or was it 200?) castings to cheaper suppliers and get them qualified in under a year wasn't going to make it happen. I left in July of '18, and two years later those castings still hadn't all been moved and qualified. Treating suppliers that we'd been dealing with for decades like dirt went a long way toward increasing past-dues, among many other things.
Glad he's gone, but the damage done won't be fixed for many years, if ever. Of course that assumes someone at HON cares and wants to heal things. Fat chance.
Mad dog is he retiring or is he going to a new company.
Not good news for aerospace. First day replace the CEO. Then they get rid of the president of the aerospace divisions. My bet is there going to be a major shake up in the aerospace.
Reason he's leaving. They're going to sell us off or spin us off. If you're one of these scenarios takes place, you wouldn't have a job. So leave before it happens, really doesn't look good for aerospace.
I can't wait for the fun to begin.
20 years ago, Aero was definitely not in balance from an investment to revenue standpoint. Nobody liked it, but costs were out of control. The "playbook" was actually appropriate for the time. But like anything, there is a proper balance of investment leading to growth while maintaining good margins. I've always contended that the balance point was crossed about 4 years ago, and that margins were over-prioritized to the detriment of growth. You can see this in the relative stock price of Honeywell vs her competitors over the last few years. For example, Honeywell's market cap was over double GE and significantly higher than Boeing. Look now- both have caught up to Honeywell.
This is purely due to a lack of vision of the future to meet a single master- margin. Just one dude's opinion.
Who is going to replace him.
Is anyone surprised that MM was president when honeywell had to enter onerous legal agreements with the US government just to continue to do business after repeated export violations? He was all in on making a quick buck by exploiting cheap labor anywhere he could find it. Customer quality was not even a thought in the equation. If that labor is equivalent pay a living wage. How much do those teenage girls on the factory line in penang make again?
For the one that posted:
Unfortunately in todays “ cancel culture” and “ hyper-feelings”, leaders like MM are viewed negatively.
As we analyze the good and the bad of MM during his shorter than expected tenure, let me just say from another point of view is that he was a 'bully' and just before taking the helm from Tim M as President, his record was dismal where delivery was atrocious, past dues missed the mark that he committed upon and a whole host of other metrices were less than stellar performance blaming on growth. Now, is that accountability? And, while it was supposed to lead to better results during his time of being president for 4 years, it did not. It actually was worse with customers hating our products more and if there were alternatives they took those with our competitors where they could. Our products are living off its prime with no new injection of replacement and its only too soon that it will be replaced by our competitors'.
MM will be remembered more for the wrong reasons rather than the right ones. His ruthlessness when it came to headcounts will forever be remembered not because of COVID driven measures but by his sheer desire to expand margins without a thought about long term consequences. I bide him farewell and hope that we see the last of such tyranny in our leadership team.
Doubling down on horrific hires is the HR way. "The manager is always right."
The Aero leaders MM selected have been professional and did a good job of softening his antics. Not being aero, I never saw his nasty side. I heard stories but his staff absorbed most of it. The staff JW has selected is so inexperienced and so unqualified that it exacerbates his nastiness. A bad leader doesn’t just impact a few. Their impact multiples as they put cronies and unqualified yes men in place. HR is supposed to be the last line of defense. HR has failed in ways that are unfathomable. The ethics line complaints simply get passed to the same HR leaders who sat back and covered for the bad leaders initially. HR had to be complicit in order for MM and JW to thrive and pirate their millions in compensation. VK has a lot of muck to clean up.
None will mourn, save a handful of docile bootlickers.
I remember one Townhall a few years ago after Honeywell took over Intelligrated. We had just heard from John Boy at a previous SPS Townhall and I don't need to mention that he was underwhelming. At the Global Townhall, MM sounded confident and well spoken compared to JW. He even mentioned that Honeywell needed to be easier to work with as far as customers and vendors dealing with us. Which is still a problem. I was a little jealous of Aero at that point. I think if Honeywell sends JW down the road and replaces him with MM, that would be good. That speaks to just how bad JW is. JW needs to go.
Wouldn't celebrate too loudly. Good chance he'll be back in a much higher position.
I spent a lot of time in front of MM and certainly took a few blows now and then, but MM is all about accountability, stretching beyond the comfort zone, and delivery on results…those that couldn’t, struggled to work with him. Those that delivered results, lived another day. I am at a different company now where they struggle with goals, results, accountability…the top leaders are not drivers. As a high performer I would rather work in a MM environment, than an environment where the focus is on the activities versus the results of those activities, or where everyone gets a participation trophy….just saying.
Unfortunately in todays “ cancel culture” and “ hyper-feelings”, leaders like MM are viewed negatively.
MM will now have plenty of time to torture flies …. What a huge A…H
Either this is a 180 degree shift in leadership values or JC is the stealthiest of maniacal dictators ever. Many predicted MM would replace TM years before it happened because MM perfectly fit the leadership culture - maniacal indifference toward people, hyper-egocentric, zero self-accountability, listening-to-dictating ratio of 1:1000. Never in a million years would I have predicted JC fitting that mold. A stealth tyrant would be worse than the open one who just retired.
Happy day for aero! It's about time he exits as he has done too much damage in his climb to the top.....funny watching everyone wish him the best on LinkedIn, the are so happy see him go and keep it so political.
Reading the details about MM, it’s exactly like JW. Maybe dairy a-s had a type? He seemed to have gravitated towards leaders who don’t lead but bully and cut. It’s a corporate version of treating employees like indentured servants
The removal was long overdue.
DA couldn't fire the a-hole he put in place because that would be admitting he failed. MM left a trail of destruction in his wake, which included people, careers, products, customers - you name it. His legacy was increasing past due to a record level, questionable deals and financial ethics, and pi$$ing off everyone around him. Good riddance. Sad part is that one of his cronies in this incestuous business will probably give him a job. Worked with JC in the past and he's a decent guy. Hope HON hasn't corrupted him too much. I know at least one a-hole who should still be on the chopping block and may finally get his comeuppance, and I'm guessing JC will take care of that.
You know he got squeezed out. Mad Dog couldn’t improve the backlog at Engines and yet he gets promoted. Then his replacement couldn’t improve it (what happened to the focus on cash flow turns)? Mike was an an-l-retentive performance engineer and he blossomed into an executive level failure. His role, you go outside the organization to RR or GE or Pratt. I think we have more backlog of engines than we did 4 years ago. Thank God, they didn’t promote TG. Todd would make it worse as well as sour the rank and file.
Someone should show those whatcha-ma-call-it SRT/ FSR teams out as well. Can't seem to see any any change with our current supply chain issues since this team was created.
What interesting times learning of the departure of a despot. Almost too good to be true especially during times where flight travel has been picking up where MM was only keen to broaden margin while reducing headcount. Maybe with JC, it will be veering towards a different direction after all these painful years. I can only hope that it gets better since we sunk almost rock bottom and the only way is up.
There are probably a list of other leaders making their way out the door and they are welcome to take that same door with MM out onto the streets. If it really comes to good, this place may actually be worthwhile after all.
Good riddance!
Anyone think Vimal Kapur asked Mad Dog to leave?
JC has never sniffed a mechanical
Product, and likely will be invested in short cycle products, AI and RMU’s … steeper decline for engines, power systems and mechanical Products ahead.
I'll be hoisting a beer in celebration of Mad Dogs exit. I wish it happened years ago.
JC is probably the nicest guy I ever met at high levels within Aero. Honestly I'm surprised by that ascension. Not against it of course, just interesting that is the direction being taken. If an organization is a reflection of a leader, there might be changes across Aero. Will be fun to see what happens...
Never a bad time to restart. It ptobably started when Tim Mahoney started his ruthless cuts.
Time to undo some of the horribly wrong decisions! Sure it's too late for many of them, but start with what you can JC
Oh boy! Replace one incompetent with yet another. The HoneyHell succession plan
Have you noticed how the new guy never mentions aero?
Actually JC is easy to work for and I’ve never heard him yell at anyone in a meeting. He probably won’t get anything done.
Surely his time will be very short as he has entirely the wrong accent for leadership at Honeywell.
Just remember “business in India will double in the next five years”
I'm hearing the new guy is even worse, so this might not be the huge blessing it appears to be.