Submitted by Anonymous (not verified) on February 27, 2007 - 11:09am.
I believe the problem stems from lack of leadership and ownership and that no plan exists.
1. The only people worried about the next quaterly profits are those that are directly affected.
2. Each exectutive and Sr manager is looking to further his own projects. So all projects are important and all projects must be completed.
3. The CEO does not prioritize and kill bad projects. So they hire like mad.
4. The Execs throw parties to celebrate. They celebrate everything, failures, projects that don't launch, projects that continually missied thier dealines, projects that are not adopted by the customer. This reenforces bad behaviour by everyone.
5. The Execs complain that they need more staff for all the projects and begin hiring again. At the end of the year, you end up with too many employees, too many projects- mostly bad.
6. The layoffs begin. Now it's a 3 or more month mad scrable to justify your job, axe as many folks as are required to save your job, but but not enough to topple your empire.
7. The CEO doesn't have enough organizational skills to look at all the projects that remain and decide which ones are important. He simply lets his staff fight it out in a mad dash to see who can grab up the most staff and projects.
8. The CEO wonders why no work has been done in the last three months and why moral is bad.
9. The managers gather everyome to remind them that they are the ones chosen to take the company into the future. Oh, sorry about your friends, hope it was not too stressful.
10. start the next year and go back to 1.
I believe the problem stems
I believe the problem stems from lack of leadership and ownership and that no plan exists.
1. The only people worried about the next quaterly profits are those that are directly affected.
2. Each exectutive and Sr manager is looking to further his own projects. So all projects are important and all projects must be completed.
3. The CEO does not prioritize and kill bad projects. So they hire like mad.
4. The Execs throw parties to celebrate. They celebrate everything, failures, projects that don't launch, projects that continually missied thier dealines, projects that are not adopted by the customer. This reenforces bad behaviour by everyone.
5. The Execs complain that they need more staff for all the projects and begin hiring again. At the end of the year, you end up with too many employees, too many projects- mostly bad.
6. The layoffs begin. Now it's a 3 or more month mad scrable to justify your job, axe as many folks as are required to save your job, but but not enough to topple your empire.
7. The CEO doesn't have enough organizational skills to look at all the projects that remain and decide which ones are important. He simply lets his staff fight it out in a mad dash to see who can grab up the most staff and projects.
8. The CEO wonders why no work has been done in the last three months and why moral is bad.
9. The managers gather everyome to remind them that they are the ones chosen to take the company into the future. Oh, sorry about your friends, hope it was not too stressful.
10. start the next year and go back to 1.