I have worked very closely with Chuck's ELT until recently when i left for an interesting opportunity outside. But when I saw what ELT people do, how they spend their time, who they interact with, who has good terms with whom, how they create work for themselves out of nowhere to show they are busy and justify the roles, and how they slow down a few people who really are in weeds actually do things for the business units and sales execution, I think Cisco has some risks in a couple of years. It will loose valuable time.
Most of these people and their team is full of Slide Masters. They create strategy on 9 by 16 Slides for Chucky with very little connection to business drivers. Because simply they have no clues where the business drivers are and how it relates to strategy. They very good at manipulating numbers for CEO/CFO and the stupid analysts community on Wall Street. They deserve kudos for doing that. When I saw how they spin the numbers on HW/SW/Products/Services/Geos/Acquisitions etc. for CEO/CFO for Wall Street Analyst Discussion, I was amazed by the difference in what is happening inside and what is told to outside. I felt people on ELT teams are really master of this art and it is a skill to be developed, and I tried to learn a few to climb the ladder...But I was no where as good.
But for Cisco's betterment, Chuck has to do this and the sooner the better. Remove Bandy's team (hindrance to Businesses with useless models), Borno's team (they spin everything) and Replace/Reduce teams of Joe Cozz, Jacoby, Romanski since they are quite big overlay teams. Only creates that much politics and duplicate work streams with others.
Any insight from others?