This is the over 26 year summary of what most of us know who have been around
- DC took a low quality organization and built something amazing and profitable.
- DC treated people like they were important. People worked harder after he visited their office. He was approachable and knew people’s names and spent most of his time shaking hands and encouraging people.
- DairyA-- snuck in the back door and brought his draconian,greed based approach. He is not a leader who knows how to grow a business or develop a leadership team.
- DairyA-- treated people like underlings. He led with fear and fired anyone who disagreed with him. He took a thriving organization and su-ked the life out of it. He used to face the elevator wall when other people were in the elevator.
- DairyA-- only cared about padding his own pockets and took money that should have been reinvested in the people doing the work and the work environment and instead banked it for himself. He also distributed the wealth among handpicked leaders with sociopathic tendencies who would carry out his draconian orders.
- DairyA--’s mode: Elbow this one, PIP that one, freeze travel, cut off office supplies, no more training or education allowance, no more expense account for customer engagement, no R&D, no product development, offshore it all, do more with less, ignore the ethics line calls, pretend to do BCIRs, increase health insurance 5x, withhold 401K match all year, freeze headcount, scream and rage, belittle, hire and fire then hire and fire, automate it all, remove necessary resources and tools and give them Red, pay less and less, demand more and more, celebrate attrition, blame the band 3s and 4s for SLT decision consequences.
- Most of us have been waiting to see what ViK does but while he is a talented cutter, he isn’t a grower.
- DairyA-- culled out anyone with any creative talent at growing the business so succession planning is still the same caste of characters (misspelling intentional). ViK is going to have to make mud pies out of mud, but it’s still just mud.
- Work only as hard as you want to and get accustomed to the cutting. More to come I’m sure. If you’re close to retirement then start preparing. If not then start looking for a new employer.