I’m fascinated about how organizations can go from being on top of the world in quality or reputation, and then flush it down the toilet. Or become irrelevant.
SGI, Compaq, HP, Xerox… all orgs that you’d have thought would rule forever.
Poor decisions and poor leaders can do this to the mightiest.
SGI, Compaq, HP, Xerox… all orgs that you’d have thought would rule forever.
Poor decisions and poor leaders can do this to the mightiest.
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Oliver Darcy
Scoop: The Atlantic's Jeffrey Goldberg is trying to recruit some of The Washington Post's top talent to his magazine as the Jeff Bezos-owned newspaper struggles under reviled publisher Will Lewis, who has pushed newsroom morale into the toilet.
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"Xerox. We invented the future, now we just live there."
We’re seeing this now with current companies like Google and Boeing. Companies that tried to businessify everything and destroyed the culture.
Some companies managed to avoid this fate. Like Microsoft and Apple which clawed their way back into relevance and leadership.
I stopped interviewing
I stopped filling out feedback surveys
I (mostly) stopped raising my hand in meetings
When multi-decade veterans of a company don't think those things are worth doing anymore, leadership ought to be worried.
Sometimes it’s corruption like Enron.
Sometimes it’s failure to pivot like Sears and Kodak.
But most often it’s poor leadership or forgetting who you are in terms of your culture.