It's not a transformation. It's a hack and slash firesale.
And Fawad, with his work first at Staples and now at State Farm, reminds me of Albert J. Dunlap, otherwise known as Chainsaw Al.
He left the companies he transformed in shambles. He also ended up serving time.
In any case, there's nothing reorganizational going on here. This is a forced downsizing hanging on a wing and a prayer. Why not call it what it is?
Problem is the new structure has just as many leadership. It's still going to be to many chiefs
Because we need to transform IT to cut through the red tape and useless people sleeping at their desks
That may be what we need. But that's not what's happening.
Because we need to transform IT to cut through the red tape and useless people sleeping at their desks
And call a layoff what it really is. Layoff=fired. As in "we don't want you around here any more, so you're fired."
I don't think the Chainsaw actually did prison time. But he was banned from ever running a company again and it looks like there was plenty of evidence of fraud. So he got off easy.
When I was looking up the guy to refresh my memory, one thing I noticed is that he scored high on the Psychopath criteria test. And he was focused on the financials of his companies at the expense of everything else. Ultimately this was his undoing -- his nonexistent moral framework combined with his obsession with paper financial benchmarks.
And yeah, it does sound like a couple of our State Farm execs.
I'd like to see how Fawad and Tipsy score on the psychopathy test.