- Top management lacks essential soft skills such as communication, people management, and the ability to motivate.
- People in leadership roles often demonstrate poor interpersonal awareness and a lack of emotional intelligence.
- Management is overly confident in their own decisions while frequently doubting and openly undermining the competence of employees.
- Department managers prioritize appeasing the managing director over supporting their own teams.
- Feedback culture is dishonest and misleading - both at the company-wide level and in one-on-one interactions.
- "Honest feedback" is often used to diminish employees rather than help them grow.
- Daily operations are chaotic and stressful due to poor communication and constantly shifting procedures.
- Complete lack of clarity and predictability creates a constant sense of uncertainty for employees - one month it's hiring new people and celebrating growth, the next it's sudden layoffs due to sales dips.
- Even long-term employees can be let go without any internal communication - no announcements, no transparency, just silent removals that leave other teams wondering what happened.
- Employee well-being is treated with superficial concern at best, often reduced to box-ticking without real follow-up or meaningful action.
- There is a general lack of care or interest in genuinely hearing employees out or acting on their input.
- There is a noticeable increase in responsibilities without any corresponding training or support.