inability to commit to a strategy for more than five minutes, saw the reference to fiefdoms and I think this is accurate. Managers try to create their own little empires and the end result is a really confusing infrastructure that periodically has to be blown up so it can be rebuilt incorrectly again
no patience to allow anything to incubate properly, everything is ripped from your hands in a rush to market. when immature products fail, it's time for the blamestorms to begin. I have witnessed numerous decisions made on personalities and stubborness (don't care if it's not working, fixing it is an admission that we were wrong!) rather than market driven business rationale.
While not explicitly stated there is a culture of 'say no first' because saying 'yes' or 'maybe' could push you outside of your comfort zone and cause you to stay at work after 5:00 a couple of days.
it seems that individuals do all they can to keep the spotlight off of themselves, some managers seem to be more willing to throw their subordinants bodies in front of the bullets rather than put any effort into addressing the issue at hand.Company is pulled in two directions, you have some folks developing products that are willing to take extreme risks and try innovative new ideas and then others--marketing and sales most notably--who are incredibly risk adverse because taking a risk could lead to exposure. Risk-taking, exposure, and accountability are completely unrelated to career sustainability at this organization in the middle management layers.
Also saw a couple of references to 'witch hunts' and I think this is really accurate. The friends I still have there say they are looking over their backs because given the talented people who continue to get let go, nobody feels safe.
