GE's issue and the reason it is in this mess is the fact that it's leaders and employees are caught up playing the empire game. The bigger budget and team you have in the company the bigger your status. No real focus is given to solving the problems customers have. Solving problems for customers and getting paid is how you create value, not building massive teams to shuffle papers around or worse do nothing and collect a pay check.
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I agree fully with that. Why do we need to have a template to become a leader (larger teams, bigger budgets)....leaders should be coming up from ground up...should be humane....rawzzrather than people who are interested in trying to fit in than stand out
Boy, this is spot on when I was there, to maintain E band you always needed xxx number of people working for you. The perks of the GM was company car and some serious stock options. Those days are gone.
The GE empire is crumbling and rightfully so. I would not hire one GE audit team or senior leader, sorry but all they know is GE bullish-t and how to play games and not manage people. In the old days Leaders has to work their way up through the ranks and those folks I would hire. Those days are long gone.
This is more accurate than people may realize. I have been at GE close to 20 years. Watched many managers, including my own, get promotions only because they are good politically. I can honestly say out of the nine managers I have had in those 20 years, including the one I have now, only one I respected as a true GE leader. All of the 8 managers prior are no longer with GE. Several of which were, not surprisingly, laid off.
GE's HR department is intimidated by leaders.
Yep
Right on. More energy spent managing internal politics than customers and people's careers. Manage up to move up.