Pros
Middle management and below share a common bond of survival, in which, they understand their sustenance requires a pseudo teamwork mentality. All great and successfully talented individuals coexisting on a rudderless boat.
Cons
Rain Bird is a very flat organization with antiquated leadership - it prides itself on a brand that has long moved from an industry service leader to a commodity market. In today's market, when consumers think of sprinklers they look to cost - not brand. Technology and development in the irrigation industry is common place to all competitors, which is why consumers no longer think Rain Bird - but, the company continues to live in Never land and hopes its employees never find the truth. In addition, upper management at Rain Bird is deaf to suggestions (internal and external) and operates a near term business model (quarter to quarter) - this will ultimately be the doom of the company. Rain Bird epitomizes a company that exhausted its vision, vacated its support for change, displaced employees for profit, and has failed to adapt to the new business environment. Clearly, if this was a publicly traded company the CEO and directors would be ousted - on day one. They know it which is why the company will not go public. These individuals are symbolic of our government - they do nothing for the people but everything to preserve their jobs.