- Management quality has declined significantly across multiple levels
- Many leaders are unqualified, unprepared, and protected by personal connections
- The C-level shows little understanding of the basics of the business, its products, or its operational realities
- Strategic decisions are often disconnected from how the company actually works
- High performers are ignored, overloaded, and eventually pushed out
- Underperformers with close ties to senior leadership are promoted and retained
- romotions and key roles are often based on relationships rather than competence
- Regular firing sprees and silent layoffs happen behind closed doors
- At the same time, leadership publicly denies problems in all-hands meetings
- Employees are told “everything is fine” while teams are quietly dismantled
- Culture of fear, rumors, and constant insecurity
- Extremely low trust in leadership
- Constant strategy changes with unclear ownership and priorities
- Feedback is collected for appearance but rarely leads to improvement
- No real accountability for managers who damage teams or fail to deliver
- High turnover and continuous loss of experienced talent
- It often feels like a miracle that the company is still operating, given how disconnected senior leadership is from day-to-day reality