I agree. Finally, we have a leader that stands up for a single system of selecting the best personnel for jobs. I sat in a meeting with Mike and Colin several years ago where Mike had invited the ex-CEO of Boeing, Dennis Muilenburg to come and speak about diversity in the workplace. Dennis talked about setting metrics of the number of females required to be on all leadership teams. Mike stood up and agreed with him and he said that was the direction Chevron was going. You could see Colin did not agree. Dennis talked about how he pushed less experienced diversity candidates forward, promoting them to senior leaders. He talked about how he hand picked a project team of you diversity candidates to work on the 737max and how they brought it to production in 30% less time than any of historical experienced projects managers. Can someone remind me where the 737-max is today? Mike said we need to go outside our industry and he chose Boeing to be our model for diversity. I am concerned. I agree with the other poster, Colin Parfitt for CEO.
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I was in the meeting as well. Mike did agree that Chevron needed to set metrics on putting women in LT positions.
Yes Boeing used Agile
https://www.infosysconsultinginsights.com/2019/06/12/the-risks-of-moving-to-mature-agile-too-fast-a-cautionary-tale/
TAKEAWAY
"We cannot claim that a poor adaptation of Agile methodology caused these crashes but there is enough evidence of Boeing’s adaptation of Agile to remind us to consider the risks that come with a promise of a reward too good to be true."
I wonder if any managers at Chevron will heed this warning before they launch lyrically into Agile being the wave of the future at Chevron. I doubt it.
I wonder if Boeing used Agile for that 737MAx project, say it ain't so. IMHO Agile is recipe for disaster
Bogus bogus bogus. Trolls and s**t-stirrers.
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I was in that meeting as well and I remember it being very disturbing what Wes was saying and Mike was agreeing with. If you have good notes, can you post them here. I think this audience would be shocked at what Wes said. Didn't he say that some of his senior leaders resigned because they could not accept that he was setting a metric for the number of required women on each team?
I think the other poster was 100% accurate on the concepts presented but got his/her meetings mixed up. To keep the facts straight, Northrup settled a multi-million dollar lawsuit on reverse discremination last year. I have no idea about the 737max story but that has been rumored about the projects team for the last year (rapid promotion of diversity candidates) that pushed for early approvals. It looks like two separate stories that got blended.
That is just my perspective. I am not defending either of you.
There is a huge difference between “diversity” and cognitive diversity. When you focus on cognitive diversity, then you get folks with different backgrounds, different ethnicities because they see problems differently and can deliver strong results collectively. I am a minority but I strongly believe we should hire capable Individuals, expect the best from them and believe they are capable to reach any level in the organizational. diversifying our workforce is very profitable
There is a huge difference between “diversity” and cognitive diversity. When you focus on cognitive diversity, then you get folks with different backgrounds, different ethnicities because they see problems differently and can deliver strong results collectively. I am a minority but I strongly believe we should hire capable Individuals, expect the best from them and believe they are capable to reach any level in the organizational. diversifying our workforce is very profitable
How did civilization advance to what it is today, when multiculturalism and “diversity” was almost nonexistent in many countries just 100 years ago. Sarcasm What about relatively monocultural societies today? How are they getting by? They definitely aren’t bogged down in all these arguments and factions.
Honest selections: You can dream about them, imagine them and even feeling them heading your way, but like unicorns, you'll never catch them. Parfitt and others have a business to run, with relentless ZERO loyalty for you or others. That's why you see all the non-stop a ^ r ^ s ^ e kissing in WPL, to remain desperately relevant.
Anybody who thinks that women are being selected unfairly over men is just WRONG. The women in CVX face huge amounts on unconscious bias in selections, this is why we have seen NO progress at all. breaking into the good old boys club is almost impossible.
Fake news!
Fake news. I was in that meeting and still have my notes. It was Wes Bush, then the CEO of Northrop Grumman. Not Dennis Muilenburg from Boeing. And OP fabricated story about 737 Max. Totally bogus, you troll.
Yes, the diversity shall be merit based but is essential for an enterprise to function at its fullest potential. All Chevron projects, TCO is a recent example, have delivered dismal results due to lack diversity. The present set-up within Chevron is one sided and requires overhauling.