end times - Narrator FHI 360 Employee Review

Here's the problem with FHI 360. The leadership is truly and profoundly clueless. Everybody knows it, comments on it, bemoans it. What this means is that leadership doesn't know how to value what it has, or what it lacks. It fires young people who work hard, protects old people who phone it in, tries to build practice areas where it will never have impact (see: FHI Ventures, where desperate social enterprises consent to being incubated by self-regarding amateurs), and props up an expensive operating model that delivers no particular benefit (see: a "geographic" unit without technical knowledge managing projects in West Africa and the Middle East from...DC). The CEO sends rambling, tone-deaf missives and talks in defensive, strangled bromides; the COO idles her way into crises and tries to micromanage her way out; the CFO makes million-dollar mistakes, shields numbers from sunlight, and is the only executive in history to set his email default font to Palatino Linotype 14 (try it); and the CSO doesn't know the industry and thus walls himself off from core business to play at social impact instead of generating company-shaping insights. In fat times, it's all a source of dark humor, and even fosters camaraderie, like how siblings bond over dysfunctional parents. But in lean times, like now, it's just sad.