Disorganized, a lack of vision, and focused only on short-term goals
Disorganized, a lack of vision, and focused only on short-term goals
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(At the time) hybrid work schedule
Slow-moving, but focused on short-term gains.
No overarching vision, impossible to get behind anything short of day-to-day.
Disorganized – internal programs would come and go before you knew they even existed (training, internal opportunities, R&D efforts).
Start taking the long view, a la Chinese, Taiwanese, and Japanese executives (set things up for your replacement) – instead of the crap Harvard MBAs focus on, like quarterly earnings.
The ~3 years I was there, I suffered whiplash from the constantly shifting strategies.
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