Another MW Fluff piece. The guy says we do culture better than Exxon. The guy is wrecking our culture and made it a dreadful place to work!
https://www.nytimes.com/2025/08/31/business/chevron-oil-mike-wirth.html
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We may hallucinate about doing culture better, but exxon always buys the dip, even the talent.
What culture? After STAC reorg I’ve yet to talk to a single person who actually believes
In this company. Everyone here is literally preparing for the next reorganization. The phrase “just need 5 years” is an underlying theme.
Culture was probably better a decade ago. He had ki-led all that.
Good story on Shell and interesting alignments with Chevron.
https://canadafreepress.com/article/shell-buries-itself-with-dei-and-no-ones-digging-it-out
F them all.
“In our industry, strategies are easy to copy. Assets you can buy, technologies you can license. Cultures are harder to build, and they are a differentiator.”
Harder to build but MW is doing his best to destroy it as quickly as possible.
So many bits in that article to make an employee puke.
Reminds me of EB referring to the "Transformation" as "Organic", instead of "Inorganic", in the Town Hall meeting. MW and the ELT are the worse I have experienced in my career.