Unrealistic strategy that isn’t tied to executable planning - Director Elevance Health Employee Review

Some of the biggest failures at the executive level you can imagine. Such as: Committing to completely unrealistic deadlines without even consulting the team doing the work on the level of effort required, then the VPs who made the commitment strongarming people into 80+ hour weeks when the deadlines are inevitably at risk. Because it’s not their poor planning, it’s poor workers... A total failure to implement SAFe agile correctly for a massive project, resulting in late delivery and massive cost overrun. There are a few types at the Director/Staff VP level. You have the ones that love to talk about strategy and make promises but can’t seem to execute anything. Then the ones who are scrambling around trying to do whatever the “strategy” people decide is a priority this week. Finally, you have the people who have either burned out or given up and are just trying to stay under the radar or hang on until the next reorg. I know there are pockets of good areas at Anthem, but there’s so much toxicity at the executive level, and it either never gets addressed or it takes months to deal with through HR. Everyone brings their baggage to work at this place.