You are either a sheep, or the dip shit DM/RBD the OP is talking about.
They would learn that the "iron fist" mentality, and hasty decisions are the wrong way. Cutting LEL's kills market share, and savvy marketing pisses off pedes. This company performed better 5 years ago when DJ had a strong team of quality DM's, and RBDs, and not washed up BMS company men. We were a science/evidenced based sales company, not a tweak a random study to compete against new competing products.
You are also a dumb ass to not realize that an unhappy, demoralized sales force bleeds profits from a sales driven company. This is where some managers are lacking. Your employees can't perform well while fearing their employer... When people don't like their leader, they leave, and if they are top performers the have the ability to get out even quicker.
The new MJN (our phone calls that allowed us to keep our jobs and become part of the new MJN after CP's d-day) is the reason Similac is destroying MJN's sales #'s, and eventually Nestle will swoop in, buy MJN for next to nothing while cleaning house. A once great company is now a shell of itself.
BTW, isn't this VP# 5 now in the last 4 years? This company is a cluster Fu$k and I am happy to have my LIPIL, Triple Health, Levels Matter BS days behind me. Levels don't matter, and until MJN grows a pair of balls and does a h2h (RBCDHA doesn't count, there are studies that say more is better than none, but not comparing levels) doctors will continue to look at it like it truly is... plain old infant formula. Just like Sim, GS, PBM or whatever is sold in a can with a shit ton of nutrients.
Until then... buy generic because 28 million dollars can't be wrong! (See MJN Lawsuit)
Keep pushing the milk, but don't kid yourselves, and think you are making a difference in infants lives, or producing the next Steve Jobs because you got a mom to supplement enfamil with milk from her tit-tays. You'll only drive yourself crazy in the process. Just do enough to keep your doctors liking you and in their minds, and run up the bar tab at MJN's POA taco bar.
My favorite formulas are
The Egg
Blinky Long Nose
The Chow
and
Yeaahh...