When MW says change the leaders or change the leaders, when is he going to do either?
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If Chevron had any integrity they would have gotten rid of the current manager of engineering management. His activities on this previous assignment was at best illegal but the company turned a blind eye, blamed others for his actions, and then promoted him.
The true chevron way.
Couldn't agree more about the manager of engineering management, but ashe is a member of the Latin mafia noone will touch him.
Shame how far our company had fallen.
MW will do neither unless RM allows him to. She’s where the real power in the company is.
Nothing will change except at the bottom. There will be more coordinated small layoffs to come.
Manager of engineering management classic example of awful middle manager. Only his opinion matters.
Good candidate for house cleaning
I agree that middle management is the problem. The "squishy middle". We have great teams and excellent supervisors for the most part. Upper management is above average for an oil company. But the general managers are really bad - they waffle, micromanage, punish mistakes, don't support their staff, etc. A really weak bunch for the most part. The folks at the coal face want to work. Execs provide guidance. But it all gets lost in the disfunctional middle. We need a major house cleaning.
I love how the fallback is to blame the faceless middle management. There’s not much left of it at CVX. Not that those remaining add a ton of value, but let’s be honest, the problem isn’t a giant politburo. Many teams (not all) are working on low value activities or are set up in a dysfunctional structure. Most (not all) top leadership is unwilling to take drastic action or make really hard decisions visibly. Middle management is just a reflection of what’s above and below. Wipe’m out and brevet promote a bunch of ICs and I doubt there will be much change. The issue is more systemic than a bunch of psg 24-26s.
At least we have a new CIO after so many years of the same stuff
@1mvu I would say that is a failure of senior leadership.
Our biggest weakness is poor middle management that can't make quality decisions or inspire the workforce.
We are better than Exxon, they are chasing us