Did the outside consultants destroy novartis

Discussion in 'Novartis' started by Anonymous, Apr 17, 2014 at 12:45 PM.

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  1. Anonymous

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    Since they started bringing in these outside consultants to run the business about 5 years ago everything has gone down hill
     

  2. Anonymous

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    Don't you worry about it spanky. What are YOU going to do about it 5 years later?
     
  3. Anonymous

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    Not really..It was when Novartis..

    decided to hire people from outside the company and put them in charge. They really didn't know what they were doing or they would have never left where they were. Most were a bunch of losers. As an example, Jim Immormino. How the hell has he managed to stay around. Worthless and so full of himself. Yet manages to hang around. And Novartis lost all focus on talent. It was not about your contributions or talent it became more about what your ethnicity was and what gender you are. Promoting inept and incompetent people to jobs they had no business doing. That is what happens when you loose focus. Novartis Senior Management basically is worthless. So thats why they hired consultants because they had no clue as to how and run the company.
     
  4. Anonymous

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    Re: Not really..It was when Novartis..

    Completely agree with this post. Novartis leadership has completely deferred to chainsaw consultants and lawyers, and the focus has become how to cut sales and how to not get sued. Pathetic and gutless.
     
  5. Anonymous

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    Putting people that have never sold a thing in their lives in charge of sales functions was the death knell. All they talked about was 'well, in my business school class we.....'!! Yep, and we see where that schooling has gotten the company.

    And it wasn't 5 years ago. They were working with ZS in the early 90's.
     
  6. Anonymous

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    Re: Not really..It was when Novartis..

    Are you yearning for the "good ole boy" days where only whites got hired?
     
  7. Anonymous

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    A consulting mentality is to act as a facilitator rather than a decision maker. Consultants act as a facilitator to help clients to solve problems. They don't act as an implementer or a decision maker. Normally consultants are not very good at prudent decision making. They can help you to solve problems by continuously triggering or seeing the problem from various aspects.

    However top level position in an organization requires quick, prudent and very good decision making skills. A good CEO can become a good consultant but a good consultant may or may not become a good CEO.

    Consultant thinking is shaped simply based upon the environment and structure of the agency they work. Autocratic management can breed obnoxious and disrespectful behavior, while years of pecking order oversight fosters uniform group process and repressed resentment.

    One way in which groups can be collectively stupid is the well-known pitfall of groupthink. Here, all members of a group become fixated on a single shared belief, which they strive to conform with and to reinforce. There is a loss of critical thinking and challenge within the group, and the group insulates itself from any information that would contradict the shared belief that it holds. Usually, groups suffering from groupthink become convinced of their superior intelligence and moral authority… which is ironic, since groupthink groups are less intelligent and typically less moral.

    There are a number of famous examples of groupthink, including the poor decision-making by the US Navy that permitted the devastating attack on Pearl Harbor, the fiasco of the Bay of Pigs invasion, and the Vietnam War.

    Groups that must make decisions can also be stupid, and ineffective, when they deadlock. Here, two or more different factions within the group take positions from which they aren’t willing to shift or compromise, where those different positions are incompatible.

    Novartis is full of consultants, so is it surprising that there seems to be universal leadership dysfunction in this company as well as bad decision making?
     
  8. Anonymous

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    You must be talking about the MSBU
     
  9. Anonymous

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    Re: Not really..It was when Novartis..

    I think we are yearning for the days where the most qualified people get hired.
     
  10. Anonymous

    Anonymous Guest

    Re: Not really..It was when Novartis..

    Have your ever noticed that really not very smart people always feel comfortable with self serving points of view?
     
  11. Anonymous

    Anonymous Guest

    Executive Committee and Primary Care BU leadership.
     
  12. Anonymous

    Anonymous Guest

    Five years? Consultants have been around the company since the merger decades ago.