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Why are there so many sales directors?

Why is there a senior sales director with an additional 3-4 directors under them in some segments? Too many hands in the pot.

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Why are there so many sales directors?

Because we have incompetent people in charge.

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Post ID: @pbru+1okngCsU

Some people believe the Director to rep ratio should be around 8:1, so with hypothetically 120 reps that's 15 sales Directors and probably 8 engineering and dotted lined specialist directors across regions, so they'll have 4 sr directors manage 5ish Directors in each region and report up to the VP instead of 20+ reporting to the VP + dotted line channel and marketing leadership.

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Post ID: @3prr+1okngCsU

Okay, but is anyone going to answer why there are so many sales leaders? Genuinely curious.

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Post ID: @1bob+1okngCsU
Marketing is the same a Sales, too many ststaus quo managers and very few real leaders.

Never forget how I worked with a marketing department that had 12 ! staff and several VPs and all they did was working on INTERNAL cr-p ...

And the one I worked with was as useless as peanut butter on Lego

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Post ID: @1all+1okngCsU

No worries, judgement day is coming. Marketing is the same a Sales, too many ststaus quo managers and very few real leaders. This is exactly the issue Hock will rectify on day-1

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Post ID: @biz+1okngCsU

They like to copy every single person on a bunch of different teams. I even seen one genius send outna meeting invite to a DL.

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Post ID: @ant+1okngCsU

They run it like a mean girl club too 😆. No one can do any wrong. Every other department though? Yeah, they're the problem. If you don't cave into our demands you can't sit with us.

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Post ID: @hfu+1okngCsU

Most of them are clueless too.

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Post ID: @myz+1okngCsU

They will lose their jobs when BC takes control. As will many other VM employees

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