https://www.cnbc.com/amp/2024/04/12/nike-ceo-blames-remote-work-for-innovation-slowdown.html
The writing is on the wall unfortunately.
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3 pillars to innovation .. who - how - where .. who : great creative dreamers - we are losing a ton !
How : innovative process that invites does not castigate innovation - sadly broken at NKE
Where : less important but also relevant .. great people ; very empowered working together can come up with awesome stuff .. but less focus should be put on the where and more on the other 2 .. leaky ship needs repairs NOW
You don’t go into an interview and blame something that happened across the world for why your company fell behind under your leadership? Everything else aside this shows the world how delusional he is. Not to mention he came in and completely restructured the company with whatever his d-mb initiative was called, has conducted numerous layoffs, hasn’t listened to any of the employee feedback, etc. JD is a JOKE
It is bc he su-ks and he must have black mail items bc JD is the biggest piece of sh!t since Ken Lay (see Enron).
Wondering how other leaders and companies were able to drive innovative product development during the pandemic but not Nike? Fully remote work was far more efficient for me personally, and from my observation.
I prefer recognition for quality work delivered versus showing your face in the office and looking busy. This comment shows a high level of distrust for employees and is wildly hypocritical from a ceo who is not at WHQ daily like the rest of us are now required to be.
we’ve been back in the office for 2 years
Wasn’t he remote is his hunger games camera shot in the last company wide meeting lol?????
Perhaps Jon should stop working remote as well and move to Portland like all past CEOs have
I love how JD is trying save his name and grace by blaming others. Great way to take accountability
It's not workers working remotely that's the problem. There's only one remote worker that's caused our downfall, and that's JD.
No, I don't think him coming into the office will change things either. Better by far to part ways with this Albatross around our necks.
He works remotely from California lol he’s such a joke of a CEO.
You have Cr-p innovation because you have Cr-p innovators and Cr-p innovation leadership.... How bout them new Olympic Track And Field uniforms....utter Cr-p.
All of the great innovation was derailed in 2017 and 2018 when that round of layoffs happened. Good luck Nike, you'll need it.
@1ied with the astonishing intellect to correlate productivity with presence thinks they aren't the deadweight lol
Y’all are tripping. JD is totally right , we have a 4 day work week. None y’all are working on Fridays. Especially the bull$shi—ers on this site…
Amazing...
Remember when they bragged about that ugly Nike Forward hoodie being made by teams collaborating remotely? Now suddenly remote work is the problem? John has lost the locker room, there are no supporters for him on campus. He will be remembered as the guy who set Nike back 5 years with the turning point will be the all-hands meeting where we witnessed an open rebellion by employees and watched him be bullied through a zoom chat box.
It’s funny how I never see this guy on campus even though he loves to talk about how important it is to be on campus. I see PK on campus more often than this guy.
So he doesn't have the ba--s to show his justifiably agitated employees a recording of himself asking them back a full five days a week and then shunned like the milquetoast butthurt manchild he is, goes on to complain to an outside news network about the very same fictional innovation boogeyman purportedly crippling our stock price.
Look in a FU--ING MIRROR John Donahoe. What an absolute, unparalleled disgrace this insufferable grifter is. The living antipode of accountability.
NO!? In addition to all the good points already made. Working from home during Covid was A LOT. I gave this company all I have, sometimes at the expense of my family. We were all struggling in different ways, but me, and ALL OF MY TEAMMATES, showed up. This is feels like a slap in the face.
Recall he said he feels accountable. He never said he was or owned up to it.
Mr Accountability
As others have pointed out, Hoka, On and other companies have taken market share from us over that last three years. During the same pandemic. How did they do it?? I presume they were mostly working remote as well. The problems are multiple:
- Consumers are increasingly fickle and Nike can no longer assume its powerful brand will gloss over all the faults.
- We are no longer innovating and marketing like we used to. Part of that is our fault and part of it is because the overall marketplace is bifurcated and harder to reach.
- People are increasingly broke and can’t drop big $$$ on footwear and apparel.
- Increasingly people don’t care as much about sport.
- A lot of our best talent has walked out the door in recent years. Leadership either let them walk, encouraged it, or threw them out. It hasn’t just been executives either even though those people get most of the attention. Lots of solid line workers have also left for greener pastures.
- We have a CEO who isn’t a product guy. Or a true Nike guy at all.
- Morale has sunk for several reasons. One of those reasons is seeing certain people be overcompensated while Rome burns. I dislike seeing my manager, or mostly NOT seeing him, make $400K/year while he takes credit for other peoples’ work while contributing nothing himself. I’m often like “Why am I staying here again??”
Wasn’t every other company that’s “beating us” working via zoom during that time also? Or maybe peoples “disruptive creative juices” were thrown off by the fact that there was hundreds & thousands of sick and dying people around the globe… I guess this is what accountability looks like though. What an absolute KOOK.
I want to scream! Yeah that’s the problem. JD needs to go; he is not a product guy and THATS the problem. Way to blame it on working from home…MR I’ll take the blame.
His PR puppet is a token guy! He checks off the DEI boxes. Servant Leadership at its finest! Throw your servants under the bus!
Do we still have a Public Relations team or did JD outsource it along with his ability to come across as genuine?
LMAO. Hard to build disruptive products? There's literally truckloads of "disruptive products" being shredded every season. They're discarded for the "safe" franchises that no one wants anymore. Try again JD. What a cluster.
What happened to "I take full responsibility" and now you are blaming it on your own employees while competitors came up with amazing products during the same 2.5 years while working remote.
Please accept the fact that you don't know how to run a company and step down instead of coming up with such d-mb reasons.
Didn't the competition build disruptive products via Zoom as a result of the same pandemic?
All the new "innovation" in Paris was done via check ins on zoom.... Nice try johnny d.