Americas sales just admitted they are incompetent and can’t figure out who to fire by the December 12 deadline so we’ll need to spend an indeterminant amount of time with the sword dangling over our heads. Who will actually get work done? What will keep the high performers from just leaving?
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From that bungling session, it showed that they are so disconnected with the rest of us. And reality for that matter. Wow! The transitions to selling was awful. EK + the rest of them kept a straight face talking about their things like the lay-off message was never talked about. What planet are they from? Must be nice living in their ivory towers and thinking that we are machines with no emotion. Switch off our worries and emotions. Switch on to work.
Looked like everyone was largely sobered from last week, which is good. But agree otherwise was just a show where everyone looked so excited they were about to pi-s themselves. Swing. Miss. And get back to work. They have BIG vacations plans for the holidays. And only X number of shopping days until Christmas. REALLY?!?
JS is a glorified channels MPO. Nothing more. What an empty suit.
Joker sales = Lifecycle Selling = Can't have decent conversation with client = start with discount = conversation end with discount
What the heck are they talking about? What the heck is going on over there? What the heck happened? What the heck was that?
Summary of meeting:
Part 1: If you don't hear anything by Dec. 12, don't assume you are safe.
Part 2: Get excited about the new buzzword "Lifecycle Selling"
Part 3: Get back to work.
sounds like a good opportunity to close deals while you can.
They were too busy having a blast in Hawaii to get the plan together.
Did you notice they were not taking any text Q&A?!
It also sounded like she closed the call five different times but then kept droning on. 25 minutes of filler and less than 5 minutes of “we didn’t get our sh-t together in time” and “we’ll take multiple quarters (!!!) to figure it out”.
That was the weirdest meeting. Amateur hour and sounded like reading from a poor script. Then the awkward pivot from talking rebalance to getting exited about Lifecycle Selling. It's scary how poor this diversity leadership is.
Jeff S is waaayyyyyy over his head
Any of the great sales leaders left Cisco long ago
Love how they told everyone basically just not to worry and get back to work
So will severance be from whenever they get their act together or from Dec 12 anywya?