Failing to Transform - Senior Manager BAT Employee Review

1.0
Oct 21, 2019
Recommend
CEO approval
Business outlook

Pros

The new CEO has come in with some bold, brave ideas to transform the organisation. His vision of “simpler, faster, stronger” is absolutely the right approach.

Cons

But is it too late? My fear is it’s too little, too late and BAT is destined to be the next Blockbuster or Kodak. There are still too many of the “old school”, not just pale, male and stale but, but people with inflated egos that have got away with doing very little, taking very little accountability and creating layers and layers of bureaucracy (dressed up as controls) so nothing ever changes.

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5.0
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Pros

- Complete autonomy with schedule which provides for a nice balance between work and personal life - Impact people who are trying to grow their careers - Company car and free* gas is pretty nice

Cons

- Autonomy & freedom does leave time where you have to be self-motivated to keep going and push forward

2.0
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Recommend
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Pros

Very strong compensation package, lots of very nice genuine people on the Reynolds US side

Cons

Toxic, politically charged environment, cliques of people each trying to place their own people in roles. A singular mis-trust and dislike of "outside" people who are brought in to move the company forward but the existing people who have worked there for years and years are all trying to protect and sustain their own roles and their own cliques. All show and pretty presentations but no meaningful, meaty strategy

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