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What is a C-suite leader?

We just hired a person that we announced as a C-suite leader.

She will be our new Chief Strategy Officer.

She must be whip smart, because she has never even been in our industry and now she is going to lead us through a "transition" to sustainable energy. After 100 years of doing it right we now have somebody to show us how to do it right!

JMHO- there's lots of people today in charge
of businesses that they know little or nothing
about. That's why the economy is in the tank.
Someone coming in green can't do as good of
a job as someone who is experienced and
qualified and has a knack and affinity for the
job. I've had to work with some people like
that, and although they may be good at running
reports and spread sheets and looking good
at monthly manager's forecast meetings, and
implementing new policies, they just can not
keep a successful established business successful
if they're not experienced and know every nuance
of the business they're trying to run.
I've seen it time after time in many different industries.
I know that they're taught in business school that
they can go anywhere and do anything and be
successful, but that's just not life in the real world.
Not everyone is good at everything. That's just the
way it is

What's the stock symbol so I can short it?

We are private.
Only ruining the lives of the 1250 employees.

C level executives are the CEOs, COOs, CFOs, etc. They are the types that are usually hired from the outside and are trained to destroy a company by making bad policy or financial decisions so that the company is forced to restructure which usually means lay offs, bankruptcy or selling off pieces or product lines in order to stay afloat. The C level executives nearly always get a golden parachute attached to their contract that will be payed out before any other financial remedies take place in 'restructuring' the company.

I'd update your resume, start looking around for another job, or prepare to start your own business...if only so you don't wind up sinking with everyone else in that company if it falters.

Females usually are terrible bosses and employees, and they higher up the chain they get the worse they are...so Good Luck.

She from Hahvad?

🛎️ Ding, ding…Chicken dinner winner.



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Your new boss. Have fun.

No shìt.

lol

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Usually means someone with "Chief XXXXX" in their title.

IME - they often actually come from within at most companies. Larger companies hire senior VPs or Directors away from others to become part of that C-suite due to skill set or accomplishments within the industry at a competitor.

Generally tho - I'd want a Chief Strategy Officer to come from within my own industry and if your company is looking to make a major transition - especially so. The alternative is to give them almost no power to make decisions and just be advisory but then - why make them a "CSO"? Just hire a consultant.

Two possibilities. The first is as Ranger 99 describes, the second is if your company is so inept that they have no internal employees among the 1250 that are up for such a job, real or imagined, the company is also screwed! In the end, it's a distinction without a difference. Your company blows! Get out.

Is her last name Landry?

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MIT

Someone that got an M.BA, has several pairs of worn out kneepads in the closet, and job hopped to the next rung in midlevel management positions for 15 years or so.

The C designation used to mean something when t was confined to CEO, COO, CFO.


Sadly, that's no longer the case and lots of company's have C's that overlap in job function but are just labeled "C' to feed the recipient's egos.

I like telling the morons who bought our company how inept they are.

They want to sweep into town and act like the new operations team has some complex algorithm for growth. I laugh at them and tell them what to do and tell them they camn take full credit for what I've told them.

They need me more than I need them. Dumbasses.

Our company just hired a CPO- Chief People Officer.
I swear they just make this stuff up as they go.

Whenever I think of this scenario/ situation, the
scene from Heartbreak Ridge comes to mind

" Clusterf**k Walking " on YouTube

That is a great position you’re in. New ownership keeps top executive team in place after purchase. Compensation is usually exceedingly good - It has to be to get someone to stay on in a role that might be permanent, semi-permanent, or timed out after a determined period of time.

It’s almost like free money. No P&L worries. No expense Nazi role playing. Just mentoring, while being judgmental about the decision making of the new owners.

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Chief Strategist is typically a joke role, given to an outsider who carries around a ‘hyped CV’ full of half truth accomplishments. They are good at one thing. Selling themselves.

Check out their lengths of employment at previous companies. Don’t be surprised if you see 24-36 months as their longest tenure.

Many get shown the exit door, when it becomes glaringly impossible for ownership/CEO’s to deny their hiring of the individual has sent a company’s trajectory backwards.

Seen it too many times.

You can usually find these trade scammers on LinkedIn because they’re always looking for their next employment opportunity.


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You guys nailed it.
Got “riffed” Monday.

Boss drove in from Houston to do it personally, which was nice of him.

Ironically when they were in Dubai at last week to attend the UN’s CO28 conference, (I schite you not) the new girl decided we no longer needed branch managers, just ops folks.

It was a relief to be honest.

Interview today at 5:30 with our number one competitor.
Wish me luck.

I hear you, Beav. Seen it many times myself. And 36 months is their typical Long Point for tenure.

Good luck, peddler! Hang in there and keep the faith.

This kind of schit is exactly why I got out of American corporations and started doing my own thing. One other thing. It's not just American corporations. These home-grown American ass holes destroy the American branches of good foreign corporations with their educated idiot stupidity.

I feel for you. I had just this happen a couple of times now. Chunts like these always like to pull this garbage right before Christmas it seems. She's never run anything but a refrigerator before but she read a book about it so she smart - it also helps when you have a pair of tits with that worthless mba. Last time it happened to me, the boss blamed everyone beneath him for everything that went sideways on him. His entire staff quit, transferred, or was fired. I wanted a severance package so I made him fire me. That was March 2019 and they agreed to pay me until the end of that year & I had a new job two weeks later making 50% more than I did previously. I made a LOT of money that year and mostly paid off the house. Beav nailed it. This bitch will be gone in 18 months to 'save' another company just like that beech did for Bud Lite. In my case, 9 months later my ex employer finally figured it out and fired my miserable POS boss. The VP took me to lunch and begged me to come back, offering to match my current salary - LOL. Nope. If you're good, and it sounds like you are, you'll not only land on your feet; but be in a better position for it. Let us know how it goes.

I worked for a large S&P 500 company ten plus years ago and they hired a Chief Diversity Officer. I remember thinking "WTF does a CDO do?" . As I found out, very little. It looks good for the Wall Street idiots.

The company that I left eight months ago has one of those. She is the wife of the Senior Partner. She must be doing a bang up job because people have left in droves.