DJK

Nortel: Is it Time for a Change At the Top?

Nortel bought Bay, not the other way around. And Nortel's bureaucratic style culture now dominates not Bay's. I know because I lived through it all. We went from a customer focused, productive environment to a process driven, multi-layered bureaucracy, where the common sentiment is to "hide" from the customer.


On Oct 07 06:55 PM Empathy wrote:

> I believe the demise of Northern Telecom was when it was taken over
> by Bay Networks. Until that merger disaster it was a terrific place
> to work, but, today it is the worst place to work. Why would anyone
> invest in a company where its employees are so un-happy, they hope
> for a lay-off package? All you have to do is compare the insider
> transactions to see management getting their fat bonuses. While the
> employees get little more than stress-related mental break-downs
> for being over worked while their saleries loose ground to cost of
> living as they work from round to round of lay-offs.
>
> If anything, Nortel should be the key business school example of
> how to ruin a company and demoralize employees...