Management here is a joke, they depend on gimmicks and games and yes men to get the job done. CEO surrounds himself with buddies that quietly don't seem to respect him, but feel the need to agree with him for the sake of having a job. I can go on about the red flags here:
1. CEO depends on his team to create brand strategies that he then takes credit for
2. CEO is basically a glorified salesman who relies on his team to make any executive decisions and even then messes up budgets and timelines that he blames others for rather than take initiative to fix.
3. Nearly every employee is a friend of the CEO or a friend of his friends, which makes you wonder what are the true motives of the people you work with
4. During a work conference, CEO was unwilling spend the few hundred bucks to have a working conference room, instead opting on buying a TV that he couldn't figure out how to connect and couldn't be bothered to Google on how to set up his own tv.
5. COO when asked when he couldn't train on basics of the company says "I'm pretty sure I mentioned that I'm not a good mentor"
6. CEO seemed visibly upset when his subordinates didn't immediately focus on him.
7. A lot buzzwords to appear knowledgeable but lacks true understanding of how things work and how to grow businesses... teams didn't seem to understand the full scope of the job they were doing, focusing on cookie cutter solutions rather than the big picture strategy that was advertised to clients.
I could go on but I'm sure there's a word limit here... CEO will probably interject as he did in other posts that criticize him or his company... CEO is so afraid of criticism that he turned off the ability to see 1 star reviews of his book (which encompasses 15% of his reviews) Also don't be fooled by good reviews, team mates are basically asked to go and write good reviews (ask me how I know)... while the bad ones are turned off or downplayed.... says a lot about the ego of leadership here... There's a reason that the company has been around for 20 years but hasn't shown any growth, it's basically a personal piggy bank for upper management so they don't need to get real jobs.
