Originally Posted by Unregistered (Post 204098)

The initial plan is there, but they forgot the most important things they have to do: plan, manage and communicate. They just leave it to those under them to deal with the customers.
Not all PMs are like that, but there are certainly more than 1 black sheep.

Originally Posted by Unregistered (Post 204112)

Impossible. I don’t believe because this is too unprofessional. I have ex-colleagues who became customers/suppliers. We treat each other professionally at work even though we drink together, doesn’t matter if it is post 35, 45 or 55 years old. I CANNOT ask a customer even if he is my close friend to close eye. Neither will my friends who happen to be my suppliers do that to me. As a professional, we have to account to our management, customers, society at large and whatever interested parties defined in our ISO9001 quality manual. There is no such thing as ownself check ownself because I will either get a big fat nonconformance for rectification or the police will be involved, true for a staff as it is for the top management. My projects are all auditable by quality, finance etc. Even going to lunch with suppliers/customers, accepting gifts even on private context, business trips are mandated by global corporate compliance with strict guidelines like not more than USD$1 or not allowed. You violate that guideline, you either get dismissed or you face the law.

Originally Posted by Unregistered (Post 204121)

If everything happens so nicely as you described, we won't need audit dept anymore. :o

Originally Posted by Unregistered (Post 204131)

Cannot be so cui la, if not our national security how

Originally Posted by Unregistered (Post 204145)

Agreed. I don't believe there is such a thing called parachute in ST. How can you throw someone with no experience running the BU into a position just for the sake of retirement. This is plain stupid from the perspective of value creation. And how can they ask customer to close eyes??? How much money are they going to pump into the organization to sustain these incompetence? Describing the company as though it is straight out of a **** hole. Seriously... This is too far fetched.

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Originally Posted by Unregistered (Post 204145)

Agreed. I don't believe there is such a thing called parachute in ST. How can you throw someone with no experience running the BU into a position just for the sake of retirement. This is plain stupid from the perspective of value creation. And how can they ask customer to close eyes??? How much money are they going to pump into the organization to sustain these incompetence? Describing the company as though it is straight out of a **** hole. Seriously... This is too far fetched.

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Originally Posted by Unregistered (Post 204158)

You go and see linkedln, where all the department head was from....

Originally Posted by Unregistered (Post 204168)

There are senior management who are retired SAF generals or former high ranking officials from civil service and stat boards.

Originally Posted by Unregistered (Post 204200)

I didn't check them out. But I don't think a company as big as ST hires only from 1 source especially with senior management. This is a taboo in talent management. Just sounds too incredulous. Diversity allows the organization to tap on the varied human resources so that they can harness the best from a wider pool of talents. I worked in a few MNCs in my whole working life and I have colleagues from a very wide pool of nationality and background globally. With competition worldwide, we have to stay ahead of competition so diversity definitely works in our favour.