anyone know why the VP of that division left last week? posted about this yesterday and it disappeared.
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Anyone know what that team does? Seems like constant flow of new people.
@Wsyku1i-9jro: Cool! Maybe you can pass the word to him that maybe he should try slumming it and getting tours in buildings not on campus. There he will see plenty of folks that look like him working as contractors who have to keep quite about the 3 Percenters, the Minutemen, and other various right wing militia groups that recruit at places like Evergreen. Since its mostly only white people in positions of power in those locations, they seem to keep going under the radar somehow. They aren’t hard to find. Most of them have yet to remove the bumber stickers off thier trucks.
That team excels at:
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Spending $
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Taking credit for the work of others
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Reorganizing
Hope this changes under new CSO
maybe. kap might think twice though if #s were broken out by poc at retail vs corp then by levels.
Do you think Kap would care about the experience of what it is like for people of color (disproportionately contractors) at Uptempo? Since safe cushy Nike FTE’s like to wave the Kap wand around so much lately, maybe he can help there too.
What the heck does that team even do?
100%
SBI is where careers go to die.
Change in CSO not VP, though he was brought in to ascend. No spin.
he was at the company for 3 years. long time coming? spin doctors working overtime!
Good to see a change in leadership in that group. Long time coming.
Guy never had a chance
Nike resourced heavily in sustainability. The VP is gone because the results weren’t coming in.
Based on the investment Nike has made over many years, it does care. Sustainability team hasn't had brand support to tell the story to consumers (like Adidas has with Parley). This will change. Agreed on Kap.
Nike doesn’t care about sustainability because it doesn’t move the needle with its consumers. Instead it took a calculated risk on Kap with months of studies on the impact of backing him. If Nike really cared about Kap they would throw their considerable weight behind him and get serious about social justice. Instead they used him as a prop to sell more sneakers. Nike lost its way long before the s-xual harassment and ageism started.
His departure isn't a sign of Nike reducing its commitment or investment in sustainability. You'd be surprised by how much we spend. Work is being picked up by other teams (including innovation).
This shouldn't be a surprise to anyone who has been following Nike's slow demise.
If it's not contributing to the immediate bottom line it will likely go away.
Zero F's given by the lemmings in charge.
This is what happens when you gut innovation and layoff those who speak truth/reality to power.
kudos to the solidly standard line from coms. seemed like one of the people trying to do good work against the usual but who knows. so much lost to politics and turnover and new priorities replacing less new ones.
New CSO, new priorities and team
Another one bites the dust