It bothers me that Chevron is no longer the innovative company it once was. Whatever happened to this company's innovative spirit, where did it go?
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When exactly was Chevron innovative?
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OP, I was a 27 year employee with Chevron. To be honest, I don’t regard the company as ever being innovative. At least not innovative like other businesses that thrive on coming up with new things often enough to brand them as “cutting edge”. Chevron is most definitely a follower. I regard the company as very conservative in that manner. It sees what others do, then copies the things it hopes to make work in the business. Chevron is very Ho-Hum, not too exciting.
Chevron hasn't been an innovation company since about 2008. After that, the company grew fat and lazy on record profits ('we don't need any innovation, we're making money hand over fist!"; "who cares about massive cost overruns, we're making money like nobody's business!") then MW and RM took over with their diversity-at-all-cost agenda. Exploration is dormant. Permian is now officially past prime. We're depending now on hydrogen and cow manure. It's all downhill from here, but we've met or exceeded our diversity goals!
Look, Chevron is a top company and will be for years to come. Remember it’s “The Human Energy Company”. It’s people are it’s most valuable asset!! You’re not going to find many companies that has the benefits that Chevron offers anymore and also it is a good place to get some experience to utilize if you decide to move on. It’s what you make it and has definitely come a long way on how it does treat its employees. There are always some rogue supervisor/manager that just can’t lead people but if you never challenge them, they will be around but they don’t represent the greater part of Chevron. Enjoy a 35 year career!
What are Chevron's top 3 innovations? Techron, CPDEP and, uh, help me out here, maybe the Foodini hot dinner concept?
JFC - the woke-est companies are the most innovative by a margin you Tucker Carlson fan bois. Stop blaming wokeness for your own disappointments. Sometimes the girls and brown people are better than you at your job.
The problem is a culture of no true leadership or vision beyond how to the stock up this quarter, which only rewards self promotion and corporate yessim. Despite being surround by brilliant people, I almost never see value added objectives - only work that satisfies chevron established processes to no where.
I've seen a deluge of brilliant ideas that have met their untimely demise in the jaws of the Chevronian monster, devoured by a diet of bureaucratic process and a desperate hunger for "consensus". In this atmosphere, our bright-eyed innovators last about as long as a snowflake in the Sahara before making a speedy exit, usually within the first two to three years of their stint at the company.
@1nt gets a bingo point for tossing in the useless term "woke". By the way, use g such a term is the exact opposite of innovation, it just a throw away line from Fox.
California, Here I Come
Right back where I started from
Poor leadership and woke