Executive management is a mixed bag. Some are excellent and principled. Others are bureaucrats at best. Many are brought in because they are friends of other executives although they have no relevant expertise, experience or skills to add value to the role or part of the organization they are brought into. This creates ongoing trust issues and skepticism of management that seem to protect their own rather than those who are contributing and moving the organization in the right direction. There is a large sense of frustration on the part of those trying to manage these folks upward or others attempt to manage around them.
The company also seems to struggle with its identity, putting the "warm and fuzzy" do-gooder image externally to brand themselves, but really being willing to pursue any dollar of revenue and profit desperately to maintain numbers for the market. It makes the company so reactionary and a yo-yo to work within where good staff are constantly vulnerable, nobody knows what the next quarter will have in store, and constantly dependent upon the next "big win" to survive.
Open dialogue is "encouraged", but later punished if the message being delivered is not what is desired.
There seems to be many upper management who have never had to lead during difficult times, not have a similar role in the past, or not haven managed anything of the scale or complexity that they have responsibility for, so they are constantly in a mode of trying to figure it out, creating much inefficiency and frustration by employees and clients along the way.
Also although there is a fairly "play nice" attitude between the different parts of the company, rarely do they effectively coordinate or work together. It seemly like certain parts of the organization that step over themselves constantly and do not have a single coordinated strategy or may to work together effectively.
