A simpler idea we could copy from CEOs in the tech sector (simpler than Agile!): “Amazon CEO Andy Jassy hates bureaucracy so much he’s planning to increase the ratio of employees to manages”. Everyone off a direct line of sight from Sr. Management to production delivery should be required to justify their direct bottom line contributions (even if on the short-term their contributions are simply aspirational).
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Maybe just maybe! We have too many far too many so called hipots.
If we applied the same ratio concept to managers/advisors and hipots then we might make headway in making this a great company again.
But wouldn't that mean someone would have to take responsibility for decisions? Can't have that!
This new ratio idea makes sense only if you see work as producing useful outputs, if you see work as performative to support managers moving to their next promotion, then this cannot work.
This won't work. Where will all the HiPots go? What will they do? This would mean that they might have to do actual work.
What complicates all this is that you have useless former I.T. individuals in roles like Product Line Managers, Digital Advisors and such commingled with the business now, so it’s a holistically exceptionally broken system, and then you have the amazingly over paid useless Global Advisors creating roadblocks, confusion and miscommunication all over the place with that VCCOE GM fella telling everyone in upper management he’s creating 10x the value, so nothing will be fixed. What Les needs to do is just get rid of all the GM except MA and CL but that won’t happen cause the bad ones who got to that level can BS like no other.
Well there goes the ABU business model. Literally hundreds of advisors, supervisors and managers busy not actually doing anything of value could/should go. One question, why keep those who created this in the first place?
This may force a focus toward the front line over fluff initiatives
Far too many managers/ supervisors who add nothing to bottom line and in many cases are not competent.
Also agree far too many advisors whose only input is to boost thier bosses and thier own ego's.
The 2020 transformation failed because it created these manager/advisor positions rather than eliminate eliminate the freinds and family.
That requires competent and long tenured managers - something that goes against every concept for making sure the high pots ascend.
How about just eliminating the hords of “advisors” PSG26-30 who supervise nobody and add minimal value?
Increasing the ratio was one goal of Transformation last go around. It failed.