Thread regarding Pearson PLC layoffs

Blind leading the blind

Senior management book people who have no clue about technology, trying to run a technology company. Country club for managers with no accountability. Office politics and scapegoating anyone attempting to improve or change things for the better as book people cling to their fading roles. VP of custom digital products who really has no technical chops reports into a SVP (or at least she used to be an SVP) who is even more clueless about technology. Blind leading the blind.

Will be interesting to see how they handle 2017. Already outsourced alot of work to vendors or offshore. Already cut alot of worker bees. Kilburn shuffled to a side role. But will they replace the useless management structure that protects itself at the expense of those who actually do work.

The brand is getting damaged and going down the toilet.

Source: @IPGtVHV-kkgv

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The blind leading the blind is by design. The VPs have insulated themselves with multiple layers of Pearson Kool-Aid drinkers (managers) in an effort to drive the company off a cliff much more efficiently without anyone questioning the direction of the bus.

The revenue decline in higher education will be staggering this year, but only offers a sneak preview of what is to come in 2017 after customers have had a full year to consider alternative technologies that might actually work.

The only way forward is to clean house at the most senior levels of the company and re-build the technology from the ground up. Does anyone actually think those things will happen?

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