HiPos just became extremely disposable with S&D building up their “External Recruiting” team full of experienced hire external recruiters that have zero history or allegiance to any HiPo or any EM Executive Sponsor.
Note that Darren just placed a failed GM electric car Executive as President of Upstream even though he had never succeeded at anything and never set foot on an upstream facility.
Conversely, look at the number of vacant mo--ns that reach exec. Asymptotic slope of the pyramid is a self selection for the bottom feeding bozos prancing around as leadership today
Hipos can fall in ranking when they sc--w up. Just look at the number of CL30+ that are less than 45 yo and they suddenly resign. Their rockets fizzled and suddenly the big RSU allocations get cut by 30% to 50% (a clear sign that the rocket flamed out.)
Breaking news: everyone is dispensable. HIPOs are also dispensable. Even our Indian colleagues are.