A competent leader realizes a company is built on and with the people who care and show up everyday to work as hard as they can. Not at the helm of someone who has no respect for people.
Your company is only as good as your product, your people, your passion, and your values.
Your product will suffer if your people are less productive because you applaud aggressive behavior and ignore your “core values”. You are eroding all of the passion and drive out the people who work for and most importantly with you.
Imply has made many mistakes here. Too many to count.
This will absolutely inhibit Imply’s ability to be a great company, attract great people, and be a great investment. It’s a shame, really, they had all the advice they needed but didn’t care to listen.
Immature and out of touch leadership is to blame. Politics are rampant and people who want to do real work are impeded by kindergarten hijinks and leadership that makes decisions out of fear and ego.
When presented with possible solutions, leadership buries it’s head in the sand, doubles down, and seemingly enjoys inflicting more pain.
Terrible leadership practices, an acceptance and the promotion of aggressive behavior, and an intense blame culture equals an awful culture overall. This is not the best of the best.
Leadership is immune to coaching of any kind and is the worst the Silicon Valley has to offer.
Buyer beware.
