Thoughts on LC?
26 replies (most recent on top)
https://www.texasattorneygeneral.gov/sites/default/files/images/press/General%20Motors%20Original%20Petition%20Filestamped.pdf
This is what good ole Leslie was involved with.
I have friends who worked at GM under LC when he hired literally thousands of technical people, good devs. Most of them quit within the year or EOI’d. LC is no better than the current IT XLT, talk a big game about data, when he doesn’t know data himself. He confounds data engineering and traditional IM concepts. The danger with him is that he actually doesn’t know anything about how Chevron makes money. At minimum, your typical technology re--rded IT XLT at least play that BRM role for the business. LC is just out there unable to connect with business people and doesn’t actually know IT either
To be fair, we are an unskilled IT workforce. Between the digital advisors, scrum masters, product owners, business unit digital managers, product line managers, architects, subchapter and chapter heads who have barely written a line of code in their lives and think that power apps and anything MS wants to sell us are the solution to all life’s problems, yeah, I would say we have a pretty unskilled it workforce.
The amount of time I spend talking to the people above who genuinely have no idea how a computer works beyond what’s in the latest Microsoft brochure is staggering.
Then there are the pockets of brilliant people who are carrying the function, not with the help of the people above, but in spite of them. But they will be the first to go like 2020 because they circumvent process to deliver results and don’t have enough “visibility”.
Overheard him talking to some contractor about how our workforce is not skilled enough, and India will help with that. I’m pretty sure I heard “unskilled IT workforce” and the only time I’ve ever seen or heard him laugh. Cold hearted hatchet man over here
This guy is severely unqualified to be a CIO of a top company. This is what happens when previous CIO wasn’t held accountable for delivering for so long, and now our executives who know very little about IT is the one making the selection.
We would have been better off naming a business leader as CIO, but surrounded by people who know IT, as opposed to bringing in someone who isn’t very good, but sold it to EB, MN, BK… and now has an old school, entirely outdated knowledge of IT and applications, and giving the ability to do whatever he needs to do. This is even more destructive than just giving the CIO role to a business leader who recognizes that they don’t know IT and they should let the professionals do it - but drive to the business outcomes that they need.
This function is a sinking ship. 3 stooges who don’t know anything about Chevron, and know very little about a modern IT landscape. Ask ANYBODY in your personal network who worked in GM or Ford to compare the quality of the IT organization to Chevron, Exxon, Shell. We downgraded bigly. Yes, I chose that word for a good reason.
MN and BK just see numbers and cannot tell the difference between real IT vs fake IT. These guys just know data management for god sake. They’ve not even really run a really big and complex IT shop. For those who land a job next year, we are doomed as a function anyway.
Do more with Les
…who? Never heard of him. Or from him. Is he an imaginary friend of MWs?
Les talks about Chevron culture changing right in front of his eyes for the better. Yea ok.
The guy's entrance didn't even offer water... what do you expect from this guy?
I want Les to pay for my holiday party parking. Chevron IT really gotten to the point of not being able to validate parking at its holiday lunch event?
Pretty pathetic
Let’s see what this guy says at the Townhall. He should really invite his friends to join him and let the people get 2 know there soon to be GM
If I wear a suit and tie everyday, do you think I will get to keep my job?
Les and his cronies are dressed for success everyday, changing the culture back to the 70s. I guess they are dressing for the jobs they want to have even though they cannot be less qualified for them.
Chevron IT didn’t need the new cio to bring in his best friends from General Motors. What it needs is actual senior level architects who know what they’re doing. Junior developers who can build a little app that runs are plenty. We have some trash architects.
Oh look, the same poster over here talking about AG being head of data engineering and commenting about RS’s speech.
It’s MA and CL’s love child. We get it. We see you.
@6nsb+1vpaJ3sl I saw someone use the term "Renewal" in the Q3 town hall questions. Is that the term they used for 2020 Transformation outside the US or something?
BB had REALLY big shoes to fill...say what you will of B's choices as an exec, he is/was high integrity, fair and authentic--genuinely interested to hear others' thoughts. Les appears to be a more typical corporate executive. He's been brought in with a very specific mandate: to drive cost cutting, headcount cutting/offshoring, application rationalization and cleaning up company data. He has also been asked to provide better data on the benefit of digital. It's not possible for him--or anyone coming from the outside--to care about Chevron employees our to be focused on continuing our culture.
You talking about the Pendulum Club in Houston or that one in San Ramon?
Has anyone seen him off campus yet? Most of ELT is at the club most evenings so has he joined them?
LC was a HORRIBLE choice. Eeesh
Interacted with him a couple times. Zero brain power. Zero thought leadership. It’s amazing how people like him get these jobs. The only thing he knows is application rationalization and offshoring jobs. No focus on enabling the business.
You don't bring in an outside CIO unless he's there to lay off tons of employees. Historically CVS promotes from within. This time they didn't.
He's earned his $$ from his career at other firms. He's set. He's a hired g-n to do the dirty work of slash/burn and then he'll take his golden parachute and move on.
Who? Oh yeah, that guy.
Spoken to him a couple of times. Completely unremarkable interactions. Haven’t heard much since to form an updated opinion besides the dreadful town hall.
What does he even do? How are we supposed to have any thoughts when he seems to hide in his office and do nothing?
There’s nothing really to formulate any thoughts on this guy besides what you can research online.
Since he’s brought in to lay off half the US workforce and all of San Ramon, there is no reason for him to engage us.
He had a couple of subpar townhalls, a really embarrassing workplace post in which he says his proudest and most challenging experience before Chevron was building some databases with 1990s technology. And I saw his SOMOS executive talk last month (because we were all dying to hear more from him), and it fell flat and was uninspiring.
Les in more:)
I never truly appreciated BB's regular communication even if it was a whole lot of nothing majority of the time. Until LC came in and it's been radio silence.