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OTOH, I've seen companies STILL overspending on loyalty. For example, super major oil companies are still obsessed with nurturing generalist managers who keep
by caminante 10y ago
OTOH, I've seen companies STILL overspending on loyalty. For example, super major oil companies are still obsessed with nurturing generalist managers who keep lateraling across divisions over a 40 year career.
Talk with their "career development experts," and you'd swear that you're dealing with a cult!
- h4nkoslo 10y agoOil companies in particular have enormous fixed investments in particular bits of infrastructure with their own particular nuances, long-running relations with particular governments, etc. It actually makes sense to invest heavily in people who know where the bodies are buried.
- caminante 10y agoHa! Though, if that were the case, I don't see the benefits of the LATERAL advancements. You're just moving the morticians from one mortuary to another instead of leaving them in one place.
- h4nkoslo 10y agoYou maintain favorable access to that information, and your people get to see different scenery instead of being stuck in one particular, usually crappy, locale. "Hey Bill, back when you worked that field off of Malaysia - was the minister's son more of a whisky guy or a hookers guy? He's the minister now & he's causing trouble."