Any leader who makes large numbers of cuts, or who is involved in letting people go. Whether that’s part of the transformation protects where you get put into pools and they host your calls and exit dates or deciding where the cuts are made is on borrowed time.
This isn’t a whim or fancy, I absolutely know this to be fact. History tells you, oh wait, McKenzie tells you that having leaders who the people on the coal face despise are contributing to lower employee morale and ultimately this affects their productivity.
Anyone who has executed orders for the hatchet man are not viewed well so when they have done a few cycles of cuts they are toast.
In the last 10 years this is all I’ve seen, time and again. So if you’re one of those people I’d start looking for another job.