This line from a Business Insider article sums up our fearless leader Stankey.
Rigid mandates are the product of "delusional, command-and-control" leadership, Carucci said.
"These executives believe that if you're under my scrutiny — in my presence — you'll be more productive," he added. "They're clinging to a paradigm that's familiar to them, and their inner circles aren't telling them that it's outmoded and not working."
Leadership: Obsessed serial acquirers over paying for businesses in bad shape, DEBT, shareholder return destruction, job and morale killers . 3 cheers for leadership !!!!!!
“ Meritocracy is dead at AT&T. People who do good things aren’t rewarded. Everyone forced to come in and be monitored is how Communist Totalitarianism works. Also, the more minorities promoted, the more totalitarian this s -show becomes. This only works though with a complicit populace. Keep that in mind.”
ATT valued meritocracy at one point? I don’t believe this. My coworker got promoted over me, despite my high performance, because the coworker had been here longer.
It’s more comfortable to be in another city than your boss not more effective. Everyone saying they work harder from home. Wrong you work harder when your boss is in the next cubicle. They still haven’t done it.
Don't stop complaining. We will wear them down.
Our leadership is a lot of things, but "fearless" is not one of them.
L3s and 4s quiver at even the prospect of having to present bad news to the suite of folks getting $69M a year to run this place. Ever had a risk slide pulled or edited in your deck, "we can't say that"? We meet and talk and "collaborate" while entire sector opportunities slip though our fingers as competitors eat our lunch.
We are, in effect, a utility providing connectivity the way a power company brings electricity. We want to be unregulated but also seek to legislate competition away in Congress and statehouses.
Fearless is not pulling back your videos when you slip up on all-employee calls and admit the real reason behind RTO.
Listen to the fear every quarter on the analyst call as Mr Fearless touts up incremental shifts in "EBIDTA" and cherry picks figures from the quarterly statement. How's about that 25% drop in value during our tenure? on No hot sauce antics in those calls, just a guy trying to get listeners to forget years of bad decisions. The stock market usually and rightfully ignores this.
With millions of subscribers and dumping legacy products, the company is overdue for belt tightening. Instead of honest reductions and layoffs, we get RTO and mealy mouthed excuses. There are names for this: "constructive dismissal" and "toxic turnover."
Fearless, my foot.
Meritocracy is dead at AT&T. People who do good things aren’t rewarded. Everyone forced to come in and be monitored is how Communist Totalitarianism works. Also, the more minorities promoted, the more totalitarian this s -show becomes. This only works though with a complicit populace. Keep that in mind.
More controls are needed at T since laziness is so ingrained in the culture as a whole.
Adding to that - micromanaged departments often fail first. Run the best processes and systems and train your employees. Acknowledge what they do well for you, and not an empty “thanks for what you do.”