Valeant may not be the end all be all answer, but they have shown just how much fat and excess B+L was carrying at the top for the past several years. Everyone likes to accuse Valeant of raping and pillaging, but the perpetual revolving door of upper echelon executives is just as guilty. How many of these worked for 18 months or less, contributing zero added value and then departed with a golden parachute ? Answer} all of them. Yep times will be tough under Valeant we're all probably going to have a spend a little more time adding value and a little less time hanging around the water cooler whining and complaining. It'll be hard, it will be this unusual concept called "work" and won't be fun. So what, that's what we get paid for. The days of reporting things for the sake of reporting things to pass them up to another layer of management for the purpose of passing on to their bosses is probably over - especially since at least 2 layers of that is now gone - and should be. For all of those of you who think you're so special and amazing that you shouldn't have to actually perform meaningful, value added tasks then go work some place else, we don't need your dead weight around here. We need direct labor, front line leads, department management, site management, and business unit management that reports directly to corp execs that's it.
