- You have to please everybody, or someone in the organization will find a way to undermine your efforts.
- Advancement is not based on your achievements but on your popularity and success in politics. Cronyism is widespread.
- At the head office our time tends to go into navigating the political web and coordinating with a load of matrix functions, so it is rather hard to find time for actual productive work.
- Decisions seem often arbitrary which frustrates people, e.g. millions are invested into a big project, which is soon stopped, and later again started,
without clear logic of why (the real answer is usually a political matter).
- Projects have a tendency to get stuck due to lack of ability to manage dependencies at the corporate level.
- The corporate organization gets changed every couple of years, with associated layoffs/packages. This always triggers a period of confusion, loss of productivity and can impact motivation (one of these changes is going on right now - hopefully you will see more positive reviews by 2020 or so, as things settle!)
