How does a organization with so many people and so critical to the company and its future get this way?
Absolute power and success let run unmanaged becomes corrupted absolutely setup for absolute collapse is the only outcome.
Wonder if BoD Andy Murthy know enough and bold enough to make the required changes.
But what do you do? Cutting off the head leads all the leaders like AK, PC, MA, BS, KM, PB won’t have a clue or know how to work together and independent.
That is likely the reason the BoD and also Murthy and future CEO will have limited options.
Removing the head of the snake will result in total meltdown, removing 50% of the worse of the names folks will also result in meltdown. Thus paralysis do nothing and hope it all works out.
It was obvious when SA ran litho the management, was obvious when he ran LTD it got worse and worse and all the writing was on the table during 14nm that management style was getting worse not better, and how does the person run of a multi tens of thousand organizations with so many senior VPs continue to run and control the smallest of details like this is astounding failure of the BoD. Like I noted the lack of variable options will result in collapse.
The failure started decades ago when such behavior wasn’t coached out of the organization, now it is the DNA and cultural, what do you do.
I too know, watched and experienced this first hand and sadly feel for the colleagues and all that talent ruined and wasted by it. Puke isn’t the word this is a modern management and technology tragedy of epic magnitude that’s failure will now be watched by all. Kind of like the Nazis or many other extreme organizations.