It is high time. If the trend continues, this company will go to the dogs with it's current culture of sycophancy and rotten thinking. GE needs to start reevaluating it's workforce (who were promoted just being in leadership program) and if found unfit, demote them or fire them. Also, till the company get's back to normalcy, all the leadership should cease so that none these so called leaders are promoted. This holds true in Finance where every freaking CFO/VP is a product of this filthy leadership program. I have personally seen 80% of these leaders kicked to the curb once outside GE (cult).
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I used to work with a useless engineer in combustion who has been there almost 30 years. He does nothing but attending meetings to babble and begging project charge numbers for his timecard. He has no shame to blame others to defend himself. And yet he was promoted because he is a friend of new technology leader, who came back to where two used to work together. Organization like this cannot prosper. It is against nature's law or whatever. GE culture is pathetic at best.
The worst are "leaders' from thirld world who come to US with the rotten mentaliity of being too superior and giving orders. There were real examples where these clowns would not even wish/greet in the hall way but only hangout with EBs. Once the bubble burst and these croonies exposed, they all left GE. So, much on spending on Leadership program. All the leadership program teach them how to wrk like donkeys (especially in Finance). I am so glad I am out of this toxic company and glad to see that 80% of the "leaders" are no longer around. Shame on these people and no mercy.
GE has had too many gas turbine failures recently and the bad reputation has spread globally. Only political pressure is forcing customers to consider GE junk.
This is all chit chat on the deck of the Titanic. iberdrola has mothballed 9FBs. Inside of two years we'll find out if the new normal is good enough or if GE and MHI will play rock-paper-scissors for being the last new unit gt manufacturer.
Either way in five to ten years there won't be any need for new gt/st/generator designs.
Why would a senior executive hire competent, motivated, and innovative thinking underlings? They are perceived as a threat to his position and mobility. The naive underling is only there to be manipulated and used as a scapegoat when something goes wrong. Then they too learn how to use the "culture" as an end to their own means. And the viscous cycle continues.
All successful companies promote from within their hourly ranks to mid level management for hard work and being proficient in their job.Not at GE . The clowns at GE hire the dumbest college educated kids they can find to insulate themselves from any floor interactions ,then fill these same kids heads full of sh-- about the legacy they have been throught while hanging out being total useless for the past 10 years.Hell it's hard to be humble when your a legend in your own mind .meanwhile the companies burning down all around them and the best thing managers can come up with is cut benefits and hourly pay to save money . Please don't ever get involved with the street trash blue collar id--ts out earning a living by working with their hands you mite learn something
The market is not collapsing for all ; just have a look to Irak (Siemens), Egypt (Siemens), Asia (MHI).
And the 50Hz market is still alive. GE needs good sales knowing the customer ; GE must get back to the bascis : Customer AND Quality (it's knt new, BUT it's basics nothing more). GE must know better the customer to get orders, and to do this, only good and strong experienced sales people can do it, not new CLP or xLP or ?LP. Lean is not a goal GE needs a long term strategy and a vision, because today GE sells the jewels to get cash
No kidding... hundreds of us - senior managers - have been saying it for years... Most of the terrible decisions that have brought this company where it is now are the results of the Cretinville culture. Simply toxic. Sc-ap it. Promote on merit only.
And do not blame the market. Siemens and MHI are in much better shape that this BS American company. Better leaders. More careful. Long term vision. The opposite of the American model. Thanks Jack Welsh. Thanks Jeff Immelt. Thanks Steve Bolze. Pathetic. Sad.
Many take the training and then quickly leave the company. They never really learn anything in their short assignments or make a positive impact, and then get promoted making more money then most. The company should focus these training dollars on the blue chip folks working their butts off in the trenches and reward them accordingly for their efforts. The company needs folks add value, not power point presenters.
The turbine market is collapsing regardless. You can blame GE management for not focusing GRC and betting on the alstom buy but we can't blame them for the decline in large ST's and generators.
Absolutely agreed.
This company will collapse in foreseeable future unless the cadres of incompetent “leaders” installed throughout the company are replaced with knowledgeable, experienced, hard-working and enlightened managers.
The so called leadership development programs need to be re-assessed thoroughly. They have fundamentally and thoroughly destabilized the company from within.
Exactly! I also have seen them Kicked to the curb ...the Golden children that have destroyed a once great company..