Mayo Clinic reviews

Management has been there so long, they have forgotten how to operate 'outside of the box' and used to doing things the same way. It's all they know. They tend to micro manage - so if you are a free thinker - probably not the place for you. A still current employee (who has been with Mayo for 20+ years) once explained to me that as long as you 'move with the herd, you'll be fine'. If you cannot - the herd will find a way to 'push you off the cliff'. HR is there strictly for management, not for YOU. Don't be deceived.

* rampant nepotism - promotion based on seniority, not rocking the boat, not challenging those in charge and by getting along well with the MDs * rampant mediocrity; majority of all middle managers are promoted from within, often two or three levels beyond their first level of incompetency (would that be the pointy-haired boss principle?) * great work above and beyond the normal is not recognized, as it threatens to raise the mediocre standards set in place by the middle management * complete lack of strategic thinking, strategic planning by the vast majority of middle managers * every innovative idea only survives once it has been thoroughly bureaucratized (mayo-ized) * the leadership model is a physician/administrator partnership model that would work great if there was insistence by the physicians to put outstanding administrative leaders in place; but most administrators lack basic leadership skills and are mostly strong on operational management; thus the physicians need to step in as leaders - and that's what most of them never were trained for, so they wing it - most better than their administrative partner (for what it's worth) but still way below the potential. You wouldn't let a psychiatrist perform a heart surgery, so why do you let almost any MD be "a leader"? * as long as