Pervasive Leadership Problems - Manager HCA Healthcare Employee Review

1.0
May 30, 2024
Recommend
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Pros

You bond with some really good people over mutual frustrations related to "leadership."

Cons

There is no incentive/benefit to having a brain at HCA. In fact, it appears they prefer you not have a brain. Nothing at HCA is based upon merit. Those with experience, education, and knowledge typically get stuck on the front lines... forever. HCA much prefers to put people in "leadership" positions who have no knowledge of what they're "leading" to use as puppets for the primary overall goal--as much profit as possible. Some of these "leaders" know they are being used as puppets, but many do not and therein lies the real danger. People walking around without brains thinking they're the smartest person in the room can wreak much more havoc than those who know they're being used. There are many problems with this insidious practice, but the main one being these people are so shortsided and inexperienced their decisions to enhance profit often only do so on paper. In other words, "leadership" will frequently make kneejerk decisions in the name of the mighty dollar then come to find out the decision actually resulted in a net loss. Meanwhile, these decisions affect people's lives, not that HCA cares about lives. So, as "leadership" is creating more "leadership" (VPs, AVPs, CNOs, ACNOs, RVPs, ARVPs, VPs of Operations, and on and on) to join their shared delusion of grandeur, literally everyone else who encounters/interacts with HCA suffers.

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Cons

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1.0
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Pros

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Cons

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