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New Relic CEO scolds employees: ‘We [.. urgently ..] need to get back on track’
- dangus 6y agoThis kind of message to employees doesn’t tend to go over well. I saw it at another company and the person in question had to walk back on the remarks. Business doesn’t happen in isolation. Political and societal externalities are a part of it, this fact is right there in the first chapters of my introductory MBA textbooks. Right now, the amount of general unrest has ticked up across the country, and believe it or not that includes unrest among gainfully employed professionals. Pretending you’re not a part of it is tone-deaf. A good company will address external issues intelligently and use them as an opportunity to inspire and motivate employees, not scold them. The CEO here is treating their employees like they’re being illogical entitled babies: an incredibly misguided response with no perceivable upside. Not only that, he’s telling his employees that they’re on a sinking ship! I tell you what, hire me to be your CEO and I can not do that for half the price! The other takeaway of this article: I’m actually shocked to find out that New Relic loses money! The product is not cheap!