Never a respectable business school will ever teach TD wreckage. It’s definitely not the kind of fascinating, inspiring, deep-rooted lesson that students expect. Such an obvious failure from weak-minded leadership, outdated strategy and bold execution on stupid decisions will never deserve Harvard or Wharton auditoriums.
The real place for such a lunacy is in insane asylum. Hearing about TD, patients would certainly retrieve rapidly good sense, reason and good mood.
Unless, we make from TD history a Hollywood blockbuster comedy movie featuring VL, SB, SM, HA, CN, JW. From Seattle to Jakarta, worldwide success guaranteed !
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SB was the smartest guy he knows.
SB was too grounded by Burning Man in the dessert to have his head in the cloud.
@1eou+1qpj0T6L spot on!
Straight out of the McK playbook and SM and the BoD swallowed it hook, line and sinker. This is the typical McK approach and it still amazes me to think how they can be fooled so easily. My only conclusion is that they are not declaring certain benefits that receive as a result of using McK
I think McKinsey knew exactly what they were doing. Take advantage of a checked out BoD + place headcount in key leadership positions with outrageous contracts. Give them all massive stock options without any kind of grow the business stipulations. Then once you have people in key positions push DEI on everyone to cover up the layoffs you need to do every 6 months in a desperate attempt to keep the stock price up.
Except SB who deserves sharp attention from Harvard students . He has so much to share. He’s by himself a genuine case. SB the stunning CTO who believed six years ago that never, ever cloud will be able to absorb enterprise-class analytic workloads; the marvellous one who preached that on-premise appliances are hear to stay; the unparalleled Tech visionary who stamped Aster as cutting edge AI analytics. He indeed deserves a world tour across top ranking colleges as S “The Magnificent” B, CTO of the CTOs.