The family's 5 principles are written everywhere but are being selectively followed from top management teams across units. I feel that the quality of the people hired in all levels the last 8-9 years is very low compared to older generations ( in terms of values and skills). In addition, during the past 12 yrs a lot of talented senior associates with many yrs of experience in Mars (10-20 yrs) have left the business. This has created problems in the Mars talent pipeline...Skills, hard work and results are not valued any more, you only need to pretend that you are working and build good relations with the higher management in order to be promoted. The top management teams around Europe are focused more on politics, and holding their positions at any cost ( even at the expense of mars...in the long run)! When results are not good they don t take responsibility...its always someone else's fault...the economy, their team, the unit's structure, the previous GM etc
Risks are being avoided, decision making is too slow, too many procedures and standardization at the expense of entrepreneurial spirit, top to bottom approach.
