Great Heritage Under Strain - Anonymous employee Wiley Employee Review

3.0
Dec 16, 2018
Anonymous employee
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Pros

Great mission to help the world learn. In general global staff are committed to customers and each other.

Cons

As any for-profit enterprise the company needs new business models to sustain profits in the global print-to-digital transition all content companies need to make -- as it brings in new "digital-first" management there is a split between legacy managers and newer managers. In many cases they are talking past each other. As a result there is more circular firing squad than coherent strategy and execution.

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