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In case we needed another confirmation of how inept our senior management team is, this week several of us managers watched in fear as JR barked orders to earn "$1 more than last year". How sad! When soliciting questions from the audience, there was dead silence. We used to set goals on global leadership and launching products now it's about $1. To make the point even more ridiculous, Mr Y asked for $101 million with a cartoon picture of 101 Dalmatians. I've only been here a few years and I've never seen or heard of such poor leadership at that level in my life. We've completely lost our way and it seems like only a major shake up at this point can get us on track. Not sure what's next?
 


















Thanks for sharing the truth about what is going on. This place is such a facade. Reread the employee handbook .... It's nothing like the reality of working here. This is one manager that has had enough.
 






You obviously have only told part of the story. This is why leadership struggles with transparency. You don't understand the organization's finances. They try to translate it to people who don't live and breath P&Ls and operating margins as well as forecasts handed down from Japan. Then you sit in the audience hungover and post it to the world and you sound like the biggest dumbass in the land. Just take you quota and have your people deliver on it.
 






Original post is all true and the guest speaker from Fast Company even told senior management on stage they had no fuckin clue what the sales target should be. It was awkward.
 












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You obviously have only told part of the story. This is why leadership struggles with transparency. You don't understand the organization's finances. They try to translate it to people who don't live and breath P&Ls and operating margins as well as forecasts handed down from Japan. Then you sit in the audience hungover and post it to the world and you sound like the biggest dumbass in the land. Just take you quota and have your people deliver on it.
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If true, this attitude is exactly the problem. There was a time when APUS treated their employees as competent professionals. Messages were not dumbed down to a cartoon or a stupid slogan. Maybe if these jackasses hadn't hired so many empty headed people for RSM positions & reps they wouldn't feel the need to talk to them like it was preschool. It's been sad to watch the decline.
 






Trace the history of the decline. It really accelerated when people like DB where brought into the organization. Sad to see that a once great to work is only an empty shall of itself.
 












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Remember the first meeting in Salt Lake? Those first couple years were a blast. That was the way a pharma company should be.
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Before the merger, Yamaouchi had the best, highly motivated, experienced and sales driven urology teams in the country.

Could you imagine Astellas supporting the sales force for 9 months until the product launched? There is no way Astellas HR would of let that happen. They would of systematically picked people off to create a sense of fear.

The best meeting was Ft. Lauderdale, FL. when Flomax was launched. Good times. Those early collaborative meetings where individual insights mattered were key.

Now we do not dare say a word....we are on a need to know only. Everyone is trying to survive because what else can we do to make this money. I am sad and embarrassed with this career choice. Wait, before you post "just leave then" ask yourself, when it is all done for YOU, what will you do to make this money and benefits??? Now be honest with yourself....... it is just a matter of time for ALL!
 












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Before the merger, Yamaouchi had the best, highly motivated, experienced and sales driven urology teams in the country.

Could you imagine Astellas supporting the sales force for 9 months until the product launched? There is no way Astellas HR would of let that happen. They would of systematically picked people off to create a sense of fear.

The best meeting was Ft. Lauderdale, FL. when Flomax was launched. Good times. Those early collaborative meetings where individual insights mattered were key.

Now we do not dare say a word....we are on a need to know only. Everyone is trying to survive because what else can we do to make this money. I am sad and embarrassed with this career choice. Wait, before you post "just leave then" ask yourself, when it is all done for YOU, what will you do to make this money and benefits??? Now be honest with yourself....... it is just a matter of time for ALL!
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That's real honesty and unfortunately it represents the fuckin sad state we are in. This is why senior management sucks...where else can they make big $$ and do absolutely nothing and nobody cares??? The culture is watered down with more arrogent, useless big pharma d-bags from Pfizer, Takeda, J&J, Sanofi which brings down morale and chases out the good employees. Too bad it all has to end at some point.
 












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You obviously have only told part of the story. This is why leadership struggles with transparency. You don't understand the organization's finances. They try to translate it to people who don't live and breath P&Ls and operating margins as well as forecasts handed down from Japan. Then you sit in the audience hungover and post it to the world and you sound like the biggest dumbass in the land. Just take you quota and have your people deliver on it.
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The unsettling part of this senior management team is the complete LACK of transparency around the numbers. No one can explain how we derive our forecasts, revenue or expenses. It really isn't that difficult, as the post above suggests, every company deals with P&L and public companies traded in US are required to explain their financial performance every quarter. Only we don't seem to be able to or want to explain it clearly. This is a real problem...could be Enron all over again, how would we know?

Here is some help for those that want more than the song-and-dance provided by management...Since Astellas is traded over in Japan, follow the ADR symbol ALPMY:US to get a better sense of financials. Sitting on a lot of cash right now, but profit margin is dropping like a rock due to patents expiring globally. Likely target for a merger or acquisition.
 






Great post...thank you!

Anonymous said:
The unsettling part of this senior management team is the complete LACK of transparency around the numbers. No one can explain how we derive our forecasts, revenue or expenses. It really isn't that difficult, as the post above suggests, every company deals with P&L and public companies traded in US are required to explain their financial performance every quarter. Only we don't seem to be able to or want to explain it clearly. This is a real problem...could be Enron all over again, how would we know?

Here is some help for those that want more than the song-and-dance provided by management...Since Astellas is traded over in Japan, follow the ADR symbol ALPMY:US to get a better sense of financials. Sitting on a lot of cash right now, but profit margin is dropping like a rock due to patents expiring globally. Likely target for a merger or acquisition.
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