FireMr.Z

What Would John Chambers Have Done for Nortel?

Actually the real issue with Nortel is middle management from Director to VP and GM. This level of management speak in the 100,000 foot view, take little to zero risk and avoid day to day operational responsibility like the plague for fear of bonus impact. Senior management is so detached from daily operations it is not even funny, so get real!

I witnessed many a VP promote grand ideas such as outsourcing, only to have key details come back and bite the company in the ass. Leaving the worker bees to fight-fire preventable issues while distracting the business of winning business.

Accountability is completely abscent at Nortel, so long as a good idea looks good on paper while being implemented. The spinner of the idea typically goes off with bonus or options in hand to disrupt another business unit or department, with little or no copability to previous duties.

Profitable product lines are bled to bolster under-performing product lines purely in the name of intra-business politics and power grabbing. Business units routinely undercut eachother in the name of marketshare rather than colaborative winning strategies.

Until you've actually worked at Nortel for any length of time, which in its hay-day used to be the funniest company to work at, most of you have zero understanding of what the reality on the ground is all about...

...moral is shoot

...management is a joke

...layoff pkgs are salvation

I wish all the pundits would look at companies from the zero-foot level instead of trying to be a virtual CEO!