Terrible Leadership, No Strategy, but Employees Persevere
Pros
Phenomenal people to work with on a day-to-day basis, who accomplish so much despite the chaos caused by the executive team.
Cons
So much infighting on the executive team, jockeying for resources and prestige. They make exceedingly outsized salaries compared to what staff make, and they absolutely do not deliver at the level that they should for what they make. Out of the current executives, at least three should be turned out the door if the institution wants to see the kind of change and growth that it has the potential for. With the recent ousting (November 2023) of the Pres & CEO, this has only gotten worse, and somehow the head of HR seems to be coming out on top of the infighting. He is without a doubt one of the three execs that are holding the institution back. Interim Pres & CEO has openly stated to staff that he isn't really trying to be a boss...when that is exactly what the executives need--a boss to keep them in line, or to make the decision to fire a few. A zero-tolerance work from home (aka work on site or you're not working) verbal policy--leadership refuses to put many "policies" in writing--was implemented in March 2023. No updates have been given on that policy in months, so it is up to individual managers to set wfh standards for their departments, and hide that fact from leadership. Newfields has been in successive periods of crisis in my time here, much of it self-inflicted by the executive team. And yet they remain. Chaos.