That's the rumor I heard today, cannot back it up though
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It's because management intentionally avoided making waves or upsetting the apple cart and instead tried to please everyone, especially the executives and their network of insiders, extended family and yes-men. Hey, look, we'll give you a region. They probably figured they could outsource a lot of the boring management stuff and never bothered to consider how their decisions in the 90s and early 00s would impact the future. The company is a clusterf*** because the top execs are lazy and incompetent. That's what it boils down to. They have no one to blame but themselves. But also, the ass-kissing board needs to be replaced with directors who have the guts to tell the dynamic duo, along with Ken and David and AC and Glenda and all of the regional leadership to HIT THE ROAD.
Never realized why their were so many regions and EVERYBODY operates differently from each other...
The regions should be stripped of their decision making and put out of business. They've shown no willingness to cooperate and coordinate, and moreover, these regional fiefdoms are intent on thwarting efforts to institute standard operating practices across the regions. We have 12 different intranets, 12 different ways of organizing work, 12 different sets of officers, 12 different pricing practices, 12 different vendor management schemes, 12 of every damn thing you can name. No company operates that way. Forget about culture, it's about basic fundamental operations. The regions exist not to manage the company but as a result of an inability to manage the company properly. The regions need to be fired immediately and the operating area carved into two territories: EAST and WEST. Better yet, just one: NORTH AMERICA. Just an idea, that's not the only plan that could work but it's a start. We have a little over 400 stores, not 4000. These regions have got to go.
@1rsj you are correct
Probably breaking apart autonomous arms of the company at the regional level and stripping them of any remaining decision-making so they have to answer to wall street, i mean global. That and another way to eliminate redundancies amd weed out naysayers
What does that mean