Mattel has been an outstanding company to work for. If you worked in the industry it was well known that Mattel had the most dedicated and properly trained employees, the tenure was unmatched in the industry and this was leveraged into decades of outstanding company performance.
We all knew that the strength came from the people who worked at Mattel, it was the force that made us unique and was leaving the competition far behind.
Then things begin to change, the employee was pushed aside and internal fiefdoms started to emerge – executives became myopic and focused on personal enrichment and power trips. That’s how Mattel folded, many of do not realize this yet though…