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I've been working at a multi-national corporation for the last 5 years (and a little more) and your description fits perfectly with what I observed. Also, somet

I've been working at a multi-national corporation for the last 5 years (and a little more) and your description fits perfectly with what I observed. Also, sometimes the execs leave a couple of years after they start/initiate a new project (before it finishes) presumably using that as their achievement point (although the project they started isn't even finished and eventually fizzles out once they move to the new company) in their CV to their new employer. After seeing that for 2-3 times, I realized that some of these upper management people only start these overly-ambitious (impossible) initiatives just to gear up for their eventual move.

jasondigitized 6y ago
This. At nearly every company I have worked at, some reasonably charismatic C-Level / VP spins up a ambitious initiative which is promised to be a game changer. It looks great on paper and usually contains words like 'change management program' and 'rolling thunder'. Underneath the fancy slide show is the formula for success, which usually looks like 'Magic + ? = Profit', with the ? being a bunch of tough sledding that inevitably turns into a death march. By the time the death march comes to a head, the executive have moved on or been replaced.
specialist 6y ago
The trick is to move on before the inevitable consequences become clear.