Vas building an incredible company with discreditable behavior

To summarize the fiasco with Essential Consultants and reaction of Novartis:

The company senior management paid a significant amount of bribe to get access to Trump and his administration. When it came out, Novartis released tone-deaf response. They were frustrated that their deal ‘leaked’ but expressed no true remorse for wrongdoing. It was simply a ‘mistake’. Felix saw nothing wrong with the contract from his legal point of view. What about moral aspects and living double standards? Novartis leadership motto is “Quod licet Iovi, non licet bovi” - "Gods may do what cattle may not". They gave a generous retirement package to Felix, expressed the greatest respect to him and thanked for such an awesome job done...What a circus full of clowns! Now they expect the world to shut up and forget the whole crisis. Every single communication is ending with “Novartis considers this matter closed”. Oh yes, keep dreaming, Novartis! After all, the Essential Consultants contract is not the only case of bribing officials. It will not take long for another embarrassing news to come out.

Those of you who believe that Vas will influence positive changes, don’t get your hopes high. Vas is a product of this corrupted company and its unethical culture. Vas was s* scared and mainly concerned about himself. It’s repeatedly emphasized in communications that his dinner with Trump was not connected to the $1.2 million payment, however never explained why Trump granted Vas a ‘privilege’ to dine with him and a dozen of other selected business leaders. Novartis leadership has always prioritized profits over ethics and over people. In a futile and desperate attempt to raise associates’ morale, Vas called on ‘building an even more incredible company’. He forgot to add a company with discreditable behavior.

 

MAGA

 

How long have they been bribing doctors for? 5 decades?

 

Well fuckin said!

This company has simply become too big for its own failure to innovate.

Can you hear that giant sucking sound?

 

Sitting in the TC with Vas, reading his internal emails and glancing through his press statements are a kind of Déjà-vu. I heard all of this by Mr. Reinhardt for years now – so far only lip services by the guy. Is your solution also blaming Vasella (in your case J.J.) and more and more electronic learning for the job levels 10 and lower and otherwise be unresponsive to suggestions, critics and problems ? Remember he is 61 and since 6 years on a pre – retirement post. This will not work for you with 41.

 

Sitting in the TC with Vas, reading his internal emails and glancing through his press statements are a kind of Déjà-vu. I heard all of this by Mr. Reinhardt for years now – so far only lip services by the guy. Is your solution also blaming Vasella (in your case J.J.) and more and more electronic learning for the job levels 10 and lower and otherwise be unresponsive to suggestions, critics and problems ? Remember he is 61 and since 6 years on a pre – retirement post. This will not work for you with 41.

 

Sitting in the TC with Vas, reading his internal emails and glancing through his press statements are a kind of Déjà-vu. I heard all of this by Mr. Reinhardt for years now – so far only lip services by the guy. Is your solution also blaming Vasella (in your case J.J.) and more and more electronic learning for the job levels 10 and lower and otherwise be unresponsive to suggestions, critics and problems ? Remember he is 61 and since 6 years on a pre – retirement post. This will not work for you with 41.

 

Well said. We will groom more „leaders“ who have only been developed virtually. We have replaced effective development initiatives with cost-efficient interventions and will pay the price for this mistake in the post-Reinhardt era.

 

Vas is there for "continuity" meaning that he is a clone of past office holders so as not to rock the boat. Faster he goes the better, we do not need someone with this profile.

 

Look at the purchase supposedly made by Vas all crap, he thinks he shits ice cream. He needs to go along with all upper management like Stephen etc. by the way is Stephen competing for doing as little as possible while touring the world and taking selfies?

 

Bilanz People today publishes an article about F. Ehrat and his extraordinary salary (since 2011, 24 Mill.) and blames (as usual in these days and with the current president) D. Vasella (which in part I agree – never have been a friend of this guy). But to be fair and stay by the facts Joerg, Felix has been working about 2 years for Daniel and more than 5 years working under your control; so 70% of what is stated in the article goes to you. Same holds true for sticking with J.J. till the bitter end (against countless advice over 5 years to get rid of him) – why don`t you simple start to work and act – after more than 5 years in the job, take up your responsibility and clean the house, don´t nominate and approve more useless managers to the higher levels and don`t always blame others.

 

Vas has been chosen by JJ.

His mandate is to decrease cost by basically send your job to india where the quality sucks like never before, but who cares, right ?

Vas has achieved NOTHING and people are clapping like the dumb crowd they are.
GDD? a joke
GDO led by idiots, full of oversea idiots, completely impotent.
CORP strategy ? VOID, oh sorry i mean VOID supported by machine learning and digitalisation (what a fucking joke)

Under American management, this company has absolutely no future and will continue to fall apart.

 

Labor arbitrage is the typical signal that you've run out of solid, near-term growth prospects.

Look at the balance sheet. The story goes like this: you're producing shit you can't distribute fast enough or at worse no one wants; you suck at supply planning and demand forecasting.

Whatever happens, Novartis will probably have a lower headcount in 2028 than it has today.

 

Vas In the shuffling madness
Of the locomotive breath,
Runs the all, time loser,
Headlong to his death
He feels the piston scraping
Steam breaking on his brow
Old Charlie stole the handle and
The train it won't stop going
No way to slow down
He sees his children Sandoz jumping off
At stations, one by one
His woman and his best friend in bed and having fun ...

He is f&eked and even with his Harvard degree too stupid to know it!

 

And the winner (common denominator) of all this poor management is Dr. Reinhardt, someone who promises a lot (3 interviews a year over the last 6 years for a salery of 4 Mill. a year) and does nothing.

 

Dude is smart as fuck.

 

And who is Vas? What did he achieve? Nothing. Did he lead any research? Did he develop any therapeutics? None. Did he market anything successfully? Nothing. Contributed to the big failure of vaccine division. A very short announcement by Reinhardt about Vas included only one achievement – his graduation from Harvard. There are thousands of much more talented graduates from Harvard. Vas was selected because he is a yes-man, a perfect kowtow performer. Mediocrity of Novartis leadership is blooming and spreading across all layers of management. The culture of conformity sucks. the best and smart people are leaving. The morale is low. If you walk on Campus, you’ll feel the stress in the air. No smiling faces, not a single happy, enthusiastic expression. People are treated like shit.

 

Vas has a good modulated voice, perfect for presentations.

 

Novartis talent scouts of our glorious HR department identified something finally the guy is good for, congratulations; Joerg, what about you take him as press officer for your two interviews / year and we get a real CEO in – that would help all of us (shareholders, employees, patients and you).