Upper Management has their head in the sand. - Director BDO Employee Review

1.0
Aug 20, 2020
Recommend
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Pros

A lot of good people with excellent experience. Upper management has increased revenue (mostly by acquisition) and they look like they are doing well...they could be doing so much better if they had better sales management from the top down. If they had better control over how they can expand their current client business and really go deep and wide. They just say these things with no real organized leadership or direction.

Cons

*Poor visibility and leadership from the top when it truly comes to working together. *Partners keep salespeople outside of their practice from calling on "their" clients. *The majority of Partners leave additional/potential BDO services to be sold by competitors. Stupidly not realizing that those competitors are smart enough to cross-sell. *Management preaches this, but they preach to the choir (the salespeople). Afraid to tell the Partners to get it together. *It's a big "women's club". Gives them good press. They went from one end of the spectrum to the other with leadership. And only a couple of them should hold the positions they currently have. There has to be a better woman for some of those jobs. *

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Cons

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3.0
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Pros

Consultants were not overworked, and people are generally staying in their own lane. Strong knowlegeable teammates and lots of internal resources to grow. Work life balance was good.

Cons

I left during a time of transition, since the top practice director retired and the EBA leader took over as interim leader. This interim guy seemed to be waiting for something to take any action with current resources, and he was not too interested in rallying or figuring things out as a team. If he had expectations, they were never communicated to me. The lack of clarity was very challenging for me personally, and it came off as a lack of support. I think others in the team probably feel similarly.

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