Is there anybody in senior leadership who could actually turn things around if they were given free rein?
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No. Period.
@ek what is service ops and enablement?
@e6 agreed. Though senior directors have more pull. And in my experience, esp is service ops and enablement, they stink!
@b3, Senior Leadership generally implies the C level spots and likely one (maybe two) levels down,. Sr. managers have no power to affect change at all, we are here to manage people, teams, and projects, same for Directors, they are not given much reach either. I'm on the fence with how I would classify Senior Directors, kind of a stepping stone to those true Senior positions.
@as why so many downvotes?
Define senior leadership. Do you mean senior managers or directors on up? Any specific line of business?
Some, but mostly not all of the current challenges faced by the organization are the fault of the current and recent leadership and board of directors. But the risk they took with the strategy they chose and followed that did not work out is their fault. Rather than accept resonsibility for that, the press on with things like "Lead to One".
The same leadership who led Cigna into this mess are not the ones to lead it out to look like any sort of state as it existed a few short years ago. Cigna in 2030 will be a very different and smaller organization IMHO. That is the reality of the situation and the environment that the company operates in in 2026 versus 2020. While that is not easy to communicate to people who have invested thier professional lives to the organization, it is the reality of what it is today.
You can hope, but I would not bet on it.
Yep the team on place. Lead to One is the right approach.
Bharani Atluri
Vague statement is vague.