How many team leads, supervisors or managers have you worked with or for who displayed true leadership qualities? Maybe a few, or maybe none. You can look up leadership traits and qualities on the Internet and see if any of them apply to your immediate direct report person or those higher up. Check out Vince Lombardi and Adm. Hyman Rickover. Do you see this at Chevron or John Watson? Leadership is more than fuzzy feel good political correctness, multi-culturalism, scheduling meetings, generating spreadsheets and PowerPoints, silly slogans and decision making by committee where no one person is held accountable. There must be some good ones at Chevron somewhere. Solid leadership will, by its nature, weed out the poor performers and increase success.
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Hill was an OilMan, few if any of those left around today.
I agree on Rick Hill. I worked for him for several yeArs. Fine man. Belcher is a good one too
Rick Hill
2hzf: please study your world history and not just US history. All over the World, countries have risen and been conquered. Everywhere. All the way back to the Stone Age. Man in general was born with sin and an urge to conquer. Every country can look back and have some shame. It's a tough, big world. Tighten up and try to do some good to make amends for the sins of your forefathers. Quit throwing rocks.
sh-- I might roll a doobie after that post
G Castoe by far the greatest leader GOM has ever had.
Gollum, the lonely pederastic troll without a life would like some company. Please reply to this poor spineless coward. I'm busy.
Goodnight.
Yes on Rick and Greg. But what about a new talented leader just getting his foothold. If he tries to hold folks accountable I believe he would get persecuted. One can only imagine the backlash if lats say he took over HES at any BU or Supply Chain. The culture has swung so far that an effective leader just won't fit in anymore. Think about that......a company that can't support a boss that actually accountable.....Oh wait. It's called Chevron. Lol
Mule: I agree with you on Rick and Greg. Add to that Kevin Belcher.
Too bad that most managers treat their staff like objects to be used to achieve a goal. Professionalism does not translate into behaving like an inanimate robot. There really is a correlation between employee morale and sense of worth and the quality/productivity of their work. The term 'chevroid' exists for a reason. It is true that the good managers with just a decent amout of leadership qualities are greatly outnumbered by the bad/indifferent ones. I worked at another company that had performance reviews every 6 months where each manager would submit reviews of their own staff and each employee would submit an anonymous review of their manager. This process was used to weed out poor employees and poor managers without the fear of retribution toward employees who gave bad reviews to their manager. Chevron needs a feedback procedure like this. A friend told me a long time ago that management is generally like boiling milk. The scum will always rise to the top.
I have experienced and worked around several very talented and effective leaders, who work for Chevron. Both of them I will mention are still Chevron employees and in leadership roles.
R. Eldred and G. Sinclair
There have been a handful of incredibly bright, leaders I have worked for.....most were beaten down or moved to quickly to actually make that big impact that changed the buisness permanently. And just like good leaders are transparent so we're they.....they knew Chevrons fatal flaws and were not shy in exposing them but also big on keeping your eye on what you can control. The one common denominator I have seen is they were immersed in their people. They visited every team member to make sure everything was on track. Asking "How can I help you succeed." Not micro managing the team but really supporting it! The critical mass has fully shifted to horrible leadership. The good guys are outnumbered and are biding their time for retirement.
@1oci, go back to your teepee and drink yourself to sleep. Leave the O&G business to the civilized world to develop and operate.
Better that oil and gas would be developed by drunk natives than allow "civilized" bandits stealing those natural resources. After that those natives wouldn't be anymore interested to be drunk. They have nothing to do but drink in the situation when their oil and gas are developed by "civilized" criminals. Double stealing. Stealing O@G and stealing life of the natives. But there is nothing free in the world. A time to say away stones and a time to gather stones together. You will pay. That will be. I see it...
Pat Carswell. Honest, hardworking, compassionate, and generally cared about the people that worked for him.
That's correct, 1ybk... None. To have any leadership qualities exhibited by any manager or supervisor at Chevron, there needs to be leadership exhibited at the very top of the business. Start with John Watson, CEO for example. None! No leadership at the top, so no leadership anywhere else in Chevron.
No one here ever answered the question in the original post. The answer must be no, there are no, there are no team leads, supervisors or managers that inspire, motivate and make you look forward to go to work every morning.
@wdo - The oil & gas will belong to the nations? What a joke. Those drunken natives couldn't show up for work on time, unless the workday started at the crack of noon.
Lots of high quality leadership traits on display here. Good examples of The Chevron Way.
Well well well, you soon all will be laid off, there is no more oil and gas for you in the world. Oil and gas will belong to the nations, which live on that land, and not to the losers, which cannot build any sustainable economic system, which work all the time to benefit all members of society. The system you worked in is dead end of the humankind. We should build a new global economic system without you, butthurt deadwood chevron losers
Wow, this really is the thread of the pathetic butthurt deadwood losers, like one poster has already pointed out. Pathetic. I can't believe these people are still around. The next cut can't come too soon.
@rfc, post something intelligent if you want to sound credible. Up to now, you are summed up as a moron.
@I5AJqCG-avp, post something intelligent if you want to sound credible. Up to now, you are summed up as a moron.
@ryl, post something intelligent if you want to sound credible. Up to now, you are summed up as a moron.
I am the poster who put forth that you are whiny little babies always blaming someone else for your shortcomings who will not take any personal responsibility and it's true. I am a 35 year employee of Chevron. Pre-Gulf merger. pre-Texaco. Get a life and a clue, little kiddies.
- "Paid Troll"."Hired Temp". Wow, I haven't heard that one. How original.
Yes, "Chevron pays personnel to post here" - LOL. If you are that stupid then you deserve to be with the types on this forum and fit in quite nicely with the dead wood about to fall off the tree, 95% of the posters.
And if you want all sorts of private personal info. from me, please post yours first, thank you very much.
Jve- like the previous poster said you are likely a temp hired by the company to respond to negative posts. How much do they pay you? How many years have you been associated with Chevron? Don't belittle folks who have worked for Chevron for 20-25 years. They have earned their right to be critical, at least they contributed to the growth of the company. You probably don't have the skills to hold a job for very long. Posting on social media is not a skill my friend. Get lost.
That is an amazing statement, jve. Employees cannot blame the sorry state of their employer on those at the top. You, or someone like you, post this same general comment on just about every thread. Must be a company rep who trash talks everything that is both honest and bad about Chevron. No one has yet posted anything about a supervisor/manager that they believe has solid leadership qualities. That person would obviously not be you, so move over to the juvenile section of this website.
What a bunch of little whiney babies on this thread who have to blame their shortcomings on someone else. That's not doing anything for your incompetence. It's still there. Pointing out someone else's incompetence and blaming the state of your company on someone else instead of taking ownership like an adult makes the situation worse and accomplishes nothing.
This is not the same Chevron it was 25 or more years ago. As for @epb, spon on, and one of the best posts made on this site in a long while. I can't forget that story about John Watson at Pebble Beach too. He is not a leader and doesn't have my respect.
If only we could control our own career. Too many good people gone, too many bad people still employed. Too much emphasis on politics over competency and results. People who need their hand held should not be employed. People who do too well can be a threat to their boss. Most just do enough to get by and keep their heads down.
Vince L. would make 98% on this forum wet their beds in the middle of the night. Quit waiting for someone to hold your hand and learn how to control your career.
Only one reply to this? Okay, I looked up the qualities of leadership and here are some.
1) Honesty
2) Trust
3) Integrity
4) Confidence
5) Empathy
6) Decisiveness
7) Inspiration
8) Accountability
9) Optimism
10) Awareness
11) Motivation
12) Sense of Humor
13) Communication
14) Delegation/Support to Subordinates
15) Setting and Achieving Goals
16) Teamwork
17) Initiative
18) Dignity
19) Morals
20) Motivation
21) Compassion
These are plenty of qualities of leadership and a good leader. There are probably more. Many of these are intangibles and can't be taught.
Quote from Vince Lombardi:
Winning is not a sometime thing; it's an all time thing. You don't win once in a while. You don't do things right once in a while. You do them right all the time.
A few more 'old sayings'.
Success breeds success.
Failure breeds failure, if nothing is learned.
Things are managed, people are led.
The roots of morale, energy and performance/results problems are technomanagers who treat people as 'human resources' to be managed. You manage things, you lead people.
Could a good little Chevroid ever become a true, effective leader? The answer is no. A Chevroid is an anti-leader.
I keep thinking about John Watson playing golf at Pebble Beach the exact same day when over 650 people lost their jobs in Houston this past April. And then he skips out on the quarterly conference call. What an embarrassment and display of someone completely out of touch and devoid of any empathy.
Do you work for or know anyone at Chevron who is a good leader and will support and motivate you to always do your best? I know these people must exist, or is it just an urban legend?
Only one supervisor. My first boss 25 years ago when I entered the company. At that time, there was no published Chevron Way of Tenets of Operation. Written ways to have or show integrity wasn't needed back then. Today, we have written text to tell us who we are, but those are only words. There are very few supervisors and managers left in this company.