When a new first team manager is appointed to a football club, you’d expect the coaching staff to also be replaced. That new manager would usher in a whole team of coaches and assistants, most of whom have previously worked for that manager and whom the manager likes and can work with.
That appears to be what has happened in my work place in the last 5+ months. HR, Product Development, Operations, Marketing and Strategy and Compliance have all gone. Yesterday, Finance went. Admittedly not all changes were driven by the new CEO and not all heads had worked well with the previous boss (MD, who was poached by a competitor). Still it has the distinct image of a new team and the association with a new Manager is well justified. This is especially true in the case of Finance. He was gone yesterday and up until yesterday, there was nothing to suggest anything was wrong. It was almost like the change happened only because of the new Manager. Like in the case of a footie club.
This may well be a natural and ordinary thing to do in the dog-eat-dog corporate world. What eats me up though is the constant harping of “loyalty” and “people are our best assets” mumbo jumbo. Loyalty is necessarily a 2-way street. What is evident thus far is that this is an alien concept for the soulless corporation. As long as you are providing the numbers or playing the game in a manner or style suited to the manager, you are in and if you are not in the manager’s good books, you are out. If that is loyalty then I am indeed Tom Cruise. If you cant rely on the corporation to be loyal, would you be loyal?
And if people truly are your best assets, then surely you retain, not release people. I suppose the argument is the corporation retains good people. Well if that is the case then why not be a bit more accurate and say so ie “good people are our best assets” and then define what constitutes “good people”?
The fact of the matter is that corporations hire and fire according to their prevailing agenda. So it would be foolish for any individuals to sign on or resign for any reason other than their individual prevailing agenda. That means if at any given time in one’s career money is important then by all means move even if it is just for very marginal difference and if the working environment no longer stimulates or suits then find some place else which does. It would be just plain silly to treat your work as your life because it isn’t a reciprocal arrangement. Your life may terminate you.
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